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Had trouble with something tearing down my bird feeders. Had to wire the suet cake feeder to the clothesline pole. set up game cam and got this. More than 1. Yes that is a fence I have around my bird feeders. The cats thought it was a McDonald's drive through. Just pull up, stop, jump up and grab bird then drive on. Attachment 118135
Now you know who the culprit is, what are you going to do with them. I saw your home lake is the burbouse river so i'm assuming that youre close to me. I have a live trap you are welcome to borrow if you want.
I have trapped ten of them so far on my front porch. I give them a ride across the lake to the campground area. :)
Have a live trap. But struck out last night. Using peanut butter and syrup for bait. can use only stuff that my cats won't eat. The peanut butter & syrup usually works good for me. Going to relocate them to a conservation area when I catch them.Can't put bird feeders back up until I catch them. They keep tearing them down. They are really good at climbing a metal clothes line pole or they are standing on each others shoulders to reach them.
I use dog biscuits.Quote:
Originally Posted by perchplucker
Now he is The Premier "Coon Whisperer"......Who ya gonna call!! :Rofl
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Dad went to check his trap one morning and had caught a coon and a cat. Cat didn't like it. None.
Still striking out. I have never had so much trouble live trapping masked bandits before to relocate them. Had to chain the lids tight on dog food can and chicken feed cans. They were popping the lids off. These guys are smart or they are trap wise. going to get some sardines today and putting that in right before dark. got it set inside my fence to keep cats away from feeders.
Try sweets, i.e., hard candy, sugar, honey. they are a member of the bear family! Keep cats and birds away too as sardines if the best bait I know of but here comes the cats and the birds and maybe skunk,,....so ! They love a grape scent! Put a piece of aluminum foil in there as well with some kind of sweet scent on it. "town coons" like foil and in general they like to check out shiney things. Put live trap with end of trap against tree and then they can't see the end in the back of the trap. Put just a little on the outside to keep them around the trap also and that'll tweek their curiousity. Make sure the bait is all the way back in the live trap with some on the trip pan if this is a live trap, if it ain't, don't put it on the trap pan. Caught 55 of 'em one year, in my yard, same one old trap, same tree! Not wanting too either, for I trapped for years and really didn't want to fool with it all,,... but our animal control person was letting all the ones they trapped in town,,... out, releasing them just across the hyway from us! I sent them all for a long vacation in,,... canned coon! Good luck.
Tried peanut butter & syrup. Nothing. Tried grapes. Nothing. Tried the feed they keep breaking in to get. Nothing. Never had this much trouble before. Dang educated pests.
Okkkkkkkkkkkkk then. Tried this, it's called the "patient trap". I used this set to catch some wild steers that no one else could catch. Anyway, that's another story but bottom line,,..it worked. This is gonna take some time. Set some bait outside your live trap and around the area, but do not bait the inside of the trap. Feed the little beggers as much as they can hold for about a week or more depending on what all they will eat then leave. One day don't put anything out for them to eat and then next night, put small amount in trap only and wire the pan so it will NOT go foo. As soon as they, if they will that is, start eating inside the trap,,... Feed them for another night then, set the pan to catch 'em. Worth a try. Don't get your bare hands anywhere on trap to leave a sent on it. Tried watermelon? Tried fresh bar-b-que tin foil clean up with juices on it, rolled up inside at the back of the trap? Are you having any luck yet? Anyway that's my :twocents:popcorn. They are starting to get to me! Patience is a good set. Good luck. :dono Get another trap and put nothing in it along with your one trap and set it also nearby? Good luck with old "trap shy"!
Here's an old one. Get barrel, i.e. as in trash barrel and put some bait in it. Put a stick of wood in it like a limb or anything you think a raccoon can climb on and get out so make it stick out of the barrel a couple of feet at least. You could even have two limbs for them to climb out on and *put by a tree standing upright open at the top. They will climb down into the barrel to eat and let them for a couple of days, then one night pull the sticks, limbs out of the barrel. The coon will climb tree to get down into the barrel with the use of the stick or limb and see there is no limb, but having eaten for several days out of this barrel and now still baited and smelling great he will go over the edge of the barrel and drop himself down in there, thinking he can get out somehow for he just did last night with no problem! This raccoon will be there waiting for you the next morning leaving you with having to find a way to getting rid of the animal! Good luck!
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No luck yet. Chained feed can lids down and wired bird feeders up. Put suet cake feeder out further on clothesline so they have to be tightwire walkers to get to it. caught a couple of my cats with peanut butter and honey.
Your in Mo. Call some one with a hound and a .22 caliber solution to the problem.