Tradewater

Jane Goodall went to Africa because TW told her to stop stalking him.
 
I wear a narrow brim hat because the sun doesn't have the balls to look me in the eyes.



I want to play too :D
 
Tradewater , I've a notion to slay a beast in yer honor . Fine feller that you are and all .
 
Psyop said:
Make it a possum
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Took out 2 last week that were chowing down on the dogs' food....

Rolled edge said:
I have a raccoon I'm trying to catch. I should turn him into a hat in your honor tradewater
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Dry dog and cat food make great raccoon bait. I've caught over 50 of the d^&n things over the last 10 years using that as bait with a live catch trap. You can't just put the bait on the trip plate, though. I put the bait in a bowl and then put the bowl under a big enough plywood box that you can put 1/3 to 1/2 of the trap sticking through a hole cut in the side of the box.

I've caught rabbits, squirrels, possums, raccoons, rats, skunks and, why they crawled in I'll never know, two 4 ft + rattlesnakes in my traps using dry dog or cat food.
 
Dry dog and cat food make great raccoon bait. I've caught over 50 of the d^&n things over the last 10 years using that as bait with a live catch trap. You can't just put the bait on the trip plate, though. I put the bait in a bowl and then put the bowl under a big enough plywood box that you can put 1/3 to 1/2 of the trap sticking through a hole cut in the side of the box.

I've caught rabbits, squirrels, possums, raccoons, rats, skunks and, why they crawled in I'll never know, two 4 ft + rattlesnakes in my traps using dry dog or cat food.[/QUOTE]

zzyzzogeton, what kind of traps do you use? there are rats getting into my garage. we have killed 2 but i am afraid there may be another. On second thought maybe I can just get TW to look at them and scare them out, permanently.
 
tradewater puts his pants on three legs at a time.
 
tman038 said:
zzyzzogeton, what kind of traps do you use? there are rats getting into my garage. we have killed 2 but i am afraid there may be another. On second thought maybe I can just get TW to look at them and scare them out, permanently.
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I use the live catch traps by hav-a-hart. I have 12 traps of various sizes (2 - model 1020, 6 - model 1025, 4 - model 1045) set out around the house and out buildings. I started with 1 30 years ago and just keep adding as necessary. I only use the 2 door versions.

I catch LARGE rats in all of them, but models 1020 (3"x3"x10") and 1025 (5"x5"x18") work best for small rats (by species or age). The grid is small enough to keep smaller rats in.

They can be "acquired" both on line and through your local hardware stores. Best deals vary - sometimes the best price is from smallfart, grows or "casa naranja". Even h-a-h will have on line sales from time to time, making them cheaper, even with shipping, than the locals. In fact, I got the 6 1025 on a special deal from h-a-h, buy 2 get 1 free, and at a below MSRP. Bought 4, got 2 free. With the sale, it ended up being 6 for the price of 3.5 traps.

On note of clarification - the plywood boxes are only needed when going for raccoons. The little beggars are too smart to get trapped with the trap just sitting there. You need to funnel them in by standing cardboard or plywood along the sides making a "tunnel" along a path they habitually follow or somewhere they "want" to go - one of mine was inside the garage where the raccoons were coming through the cat door to get his food in the garage at night. I put a baby monitor in the garage so I'd hear when the trap went off. I'd go out, dispatch the raccoon and reset the trap. My best night was 3 raccoons in one night in the same trap (different times).
 
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The Olympics were created so that we could rank the official runners-up to Tradewater in each respective event.
 
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