Tuna with brown sugar put it in a small can like an empty tuna can at the back of the trap. We even had to put cardboard along the sides so the squirrels would stay out of it. They would reach through if it was close enough and pull it over to the side and clean it out. After caught they need a extra dose of medication.
 
They love them and cats ignore them. I put some in and some under under the trap and weight it down. The perfect ones where some I purchased for Some-mores they were large and flat.
 
Maybe it depends on location- what they have a taste for? I had tried many of the items listed, without success. Then one morning I got in my grain truck, and turned to see a big, muddy raccoon foot print in my right mirror. That scared me as I figured the next step was ripping open my roll tarp! All I could guess was it was heading for the smell of corn, from my empty truck box. Since then the tracks pretty much show up around the grain bins. So, I put dry shelled corn in a little tin in the live trap, and have had good success. Only thing is, all the other critters like it too. I have to remember to bait the trap in the evening. If I do it earlier in the day, the chipmunks have at it.
 
I agree, we use fish flavored dry cat food. You might catch a skunk or possum from time to time, or even a cat. lol
 
Grape jelly on a hard cookie or graham cracker. A drop of vanilla extract adds to it but not necessary. Works every time for me. Don’t have to worry about cats and I’ve never got a skunk. Every now and then a possum shows up.
 
Dry cat food. If you have a wire cage trap that the racoon gets stuck in be prepared to buy more traps as the racoons can rip the trap apart.
 
I feed raccoons on my place. They are especially drawn to dry cat food. I used to keep a 50 cal military ammo can with cat food in it in my shop. One night the coons drug the can 50' out into the woods and got the lid off of it to get the food.
 
My neighbor had a professional trapping raccoons a couple years back. His bait was marshmallows and circus peanuts.

On a side note, he's been trapping for about 20 years at the factory where I work. He had caught over 1900 at that point.
 
This year I was having great success with calf pellets with a lot of molasses. When I had the calve off pellets I went to catfood. I must have most of the locals cleaned out now. The water dish stays clean and no coons caught for a while.
 
Have a lot of problems with coons in my barn and of course, in the sweet corn patch. Can catch one almost daily in my barn as I have grain in there in paper sacks that they love. Cat/dog food works good but you will catch cats until they learn their lesson. I live catch them in the popular wire traps and have never had one damage a trap. Yes, possums occasionally and skunks occasionally. I usually just relocate them 10-12 miles from the farm. Caught a lot of young one lately as there must be several litters around here. Wouldn't think they would be much of a problem here on the flat lands as there is no river or creek that consistently has water in it for 8-10 miles, but there are a few farm ponds within a mile or two that stay wet most of the time. f you want to avoid catching cats just use a grain pellet that has some molasses and you will be successful.
 
I use dry cat food, too, but I've never had a raccoon damage a trap.

Several years ago, I used a 12 gauge shotgun on a raccoon right in our garage. The danged thing tried to hide in a corner and I couldn't get it to come out.

It was 10 pm, I'd been to a three day conference and then traveled with my wife for several days, I was looking forward to sleeping in my own bed for the first time in a week, and I wasn't in any mood to play games with a raccoon.
 
I use a marshmallow smeared with peanut butter. Push a twist tie through it so it is suspended in the trap out of their reach from outside. They have to enter the trap to get it. They can sure wreck a trap in a short time though if you don't get them out pretty quick.
 
Depends on what your having problems with. I've had racoon in my trap using dog food cat food and even horse feed. So pretty much what ever you have been having trouble with them taking will work as bait
 
Is there a run along a building they are taking? I have caught more coons, skunks and opossums just setting a live trap up against a building with no bait.

Other than that some type of cat food.

jt
 
I use Pied Piper brand cage traps (I have six of them). I set them in corn fields. Large marshmallows for bait. Place the bait on the ground and place the trap so that the trigger paddle mechanism area is above the bait. Critter steps on or paws at the trigger paddle trying to reach the bait. A few spoonfuls of grape jelly works well for bait also.
 
I use dog safe traps and bait with sardines topped with a marshmallow. The coons come for a chicken dinner, but nine out of ten coons agree the sardine marshmallow surprise is to die for.
 
Marshmallow,Apple slices, saltine with peanut butter or jam, anything you got reallygood that has a lures them in , lay out a line of small portion into the tarp entrance, I put a bait inside a cup by the trip mechanism so the surely have to work hard to get out , that will trip trap, the buggers will reach into trap and pick out the bait and not enter the trap , cleaver but true ,especially if they have been trapped before , they are very smart .
 

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