Coon Trapping: Easy DIY Nuisance Trapping for Beginners
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- Опубліковано 1 сер 2020
- How to humanely trap nuisance raccoons. Nuisance raccoons can be some of the most persistent and aggravating creatures for bird feeders, chicken coops, trash cans, attics, porches and more. I show how to setup up, bait, and handle a live trap for these pests.
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I have a nuisance raccoon who shows up about twice per week to peel back my sod for grubbing. Got my trap similar to yours. I used tuna fish, dripped the juice around the front of the trap and fastened the half opened tin to the back of the trap with ties going through a hole I drilled into the tin. The raccoon still came to peel back my new sod for my lawn, but ignored the trap! Tonight I put a fresh can of tuna and added some cat food in my magnetic cup in the back of the trap. Furthermore, I dripped maple syrup at the entrance to the trap, gave the floor a nice bedding of leaves drenched in maple syrup, and made sure the trigger pan has syrup on it. I also have ordered fish oil to sweeten the trap some more. If that fails I will use dog-proofs right where their favorite sod is. I am a suburbanite, and thankfully my kids' cats are of the indoor variety. I will have to check my local ordinance to see if gunshot is okay, but WA state law states that a bullet to the brain is a legal method to dispatch a nuisance raccoon. I would have preferred drowning, but that's illegal in WA.
Sounds like a strange raccoon to me. Never heard of one going after grubs over tuna and cat food but there's always a first. You can sometimes also get them into a live/cave trap after catching them in a dog proof if you don't want to worry about using a gun. It's tricky but can be done. Good luck to you, they can be persistent little buggers.
@@NobleSavageOutdoors It took a long time of rebaiting 3 dog-proof traps. I learned that my raccoon did not like tuna or fish scent, he was lukewarm to sweets like marshmallows, but he loved dry cat food coated in raccoon bait. I think suburban raccoons are a lot smarter than country raccoons (opposite of people). These raccoons have to be crafty in order to not live among people. For 2 weeks he was able to pick out the cat food without triggering the dog-proof trap, so I added well-shaped stones to the cat food to assist the trap mechanism. I finally got him today. Of course I found him Wednesday morning, the busiest day of my week; I will go home and dispatch him later, probably coax him into the live trap first to make him an easier target. Thanks for your help, NS!
That absolutely can be true. Sometimes suburban coons have been caught and released a few times already and now are educated on the different types of traps. They may know not to enter a cage shaped trap or to avoid the trigger because last time that's what got them stuck. It can also effect what they choose to eat because one bait might have trapped them before also. Glad you were finally able to get him!
I do NOT RELEASE any raccoons that are caught, even the small ones!
The predation on turkey and quail nests are justification for eliminating these predators.
I agree, but I can understand and do not fault those who do not want to kill the animal if they are not using any part of it.
@@NobleSavageOutdoors, I just feel it is a disservice to "dump" critters onto others so that they then have to deal with it.
I live near a state park and people are ALWAYS releasing their "cute" little coons there.
Guess where they end up?
Yeah that's true.
Did the raccoons come back after their companion was trapped? Or did the other 2 learn their lesson?
They continued to come back.
Mine keeps setting off the trap.
Typically, if your traps are being set off without the animal being caught it could mean a couple things. First, check your trigger sensitivity. Set the trap and see how much effort it takes to push the pan down and set the trap off. You may need to bend some of the pieces of the trap to allow the trigger to hold tighter so the coon can enter the trap and step on the pan to get caught. Second, check your trap stability if the coon starts pushing and rocking the trap around from the outside, it can set it off before it enters. It might be worth staking it down. Third, make sure the coon is not able to reach through the back or side of the trap near the bait. If you notice on these traps in the video, there is a smaller mesh wire in the back of the trap to ensure they can't get their hands in to grab the bait without entering the trap. If you think that's the problem you can wire hardware fabric around in that area of the trap. Lastly, the most surefire way of knowing exactly what is going on is to set up a trail camera. If you don't have one, you can ask around and possibly borrow one to avoid buying one. But, I think they are a good investment that can be used for a number of other applications and are worth the money. I will drop a link in the description for a relatively cheap, but also quality camera I own and love. Hope this helps and good luck.
@@NobleSavageOutdoors , I'm giving up on the live trap. I tried surrounding the trap in straw bales so the only open part was the opening to the trap. He still gets the food at the back of the trap, sets it off and escapes. I'm wondering if he is so big that his butt is hanging out the door keeping it from latching. They dont make a bigger trap. I ordered a conibare trap.
Wow that is very uncommon. Sometimes if it is an educated coon that has been trapped and released from a live trap multiple times they will figure out how not to get caught but again really uncommon. A different style trap is probably your best bet. Are you positive it is a coon and not someone's cat or something you don't want to kill immediately? If you're sure, I would set up the conibear the same way on the opening to the hay bails, he is already conditioned to knowing he can get food that way. If you're not sure, you could always try a dog proof coon trap, cats can't be caught in those. Again good luck, I hope you get that sneaky bastard.