Well cats=7 and coons=0 still

Had it baited at first yesterday with sweet corn, a small amount of dog food and cat food and marsh mellows. I got the fist 5 cat that way. So I then re-baited it with marsh mellows and the sweet corn and this morning looked out at 6:30 am and found another cat making it #7. I made double sure that the door was unlocked and stepped out and left it go. Oh you do not want to know what I was wearing by the way lets just say it was sort of extra cold or maybe extra extra cold the way I was dressed or not dressed

My neighbor lives in an old log cabin and had coons get under the house and climb up into the furnace room of the new addition. They made their home upstairs under the spa tub in the master. I opened the pump service door and the smell was awful. My flashlight lit up a big coon who politely walked down into the wall and out of sight. I set a couple live traps under the wrap around porch and caught three coons and a possum using tuna fish and peanut butter. I dispatched one of the coons and possum and took the others way out in the sticks of a county park. I had to crawl under the wrap around porch and mortar up all the holes in the stone foundation that contractors left who were running ac, etc. I took a broom and erased all footprints in the dust before I sealed up the stone to make sure they were all out. Didn't want any smelly corpse.

Hey Old,
Got any Chinese restaurants close by? Might be money making deal you got going there. Coon is right tasty to.
Ron

A few years ago one got into the corporate building of a prominate insurance company downtown Des Moines. Took a few days for the maintnenace people to locate and extracate. pretty funny.

Hey old, I have had very good success in live trapping those pesky raccoons using a "honeybun" Try it and I think you will see results instead of kitty cats.

Old

If it"s Coons your after peanut butter is the trick.

Years ago I ran a trap line specifically targeting Raccoons using p/b and never caught feral cats except when using baits such as fish guts, bread, vegetables or table scraps...

Chunky style clings to bait holders best.

Good luck!

Old, if you keep fooling with those coons much longer, you are going to be able to write a whole book entitle "Thse Pesky Coons and I". ... lol.

Hey Old: ever think about getting rid of a few cats? Then maybe a coon could get in the trap! LOL Mike

Well in some ways that would be nice but seems like there are 2 many cats every where LOL. The ones I have all started out because some one dropped one off which in turn had young and the problem just keeps going.

Hello Old,
Part of the problem catching those cats is that the trap now stinks of cat. That alone draws others. I would wash down the trap well and then either use an ear of corn.... fresh when you can get it...and bait the trap just before dark. Stay away from fishy-type things, it just draws cats. You could try a cut up apple if it won't freeze. Any bait will smell stronger if it is where it will not freeze. When we had problems in sweet corn during the summer months, we could pull them right to the trap even when set in the corn lot. We baited it just before dark with a fresh ear and ripped the kernels with a thumbnail to draw out the smell of fresh corn.... worked great.
When coons were worth some thing years back...32 bucks for the biggest ones, I would use an unbaited trap set in a run (culvert pipe)and that worked well. If you check out some of the trapping supply companies, they have a lot of coon lures. I can't recall all of 'em any more but there was "Hens'Revenge" made of eggs and "Blue LaCoon" ....looked like blue mouthwash!

Coons are a lot more relentless than a cat when it comes to getting into the most impossible places for a meal. Try setting the trap somewhere the cats are not as likely to go. Try setting the trap on the top of an 8 foot post. My bet is on the coon!
Best of luck!
Cal

Well to tell the truth I'm starting to wonder if the 3 coons I shot at didn't in fact get hit and I just did not know I hit them since a 44mag with shot shells may not kill right off the bat but might kill a few hours later. If that is so I may never catch a coon but then who knows now that I said this I may catch 2 or 3 tonight. Ya re-setting it a few times

put some money it it and catch some politicians!

Shoot if I did that I would need more bullets just to shoot them all LOL

Sure fire coon killer. One can M Dew., One raw egg, One tablespoon Golden Marlin. Mix in a plastic container. Cats won't eat and coons can't resist.

Can you put the cats in a pen for a while?

Gordo

We always trapped coons using a little bit of molasses as bait. Coons like that it's sweet but the barn cats wouldn't bother it.

Nope half of them I'm lucky if I ever do more then just see them. I have 20 give or take a few we think. At least that was what we counted the other day but who knows if that was all of them. Not that we want that many just how it is when you have barn cats

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Cold KFC as bait and the coon will fight you for it.

Just how many cats do you claim?

Not sure how many cats are out side. Years ago some one dumped a cat off here and she had kittens and then those kittens had kittens etc. I have seen as many as 15 cats on the porch eating and then 5 more in the barn but not sure if they were moving back and forth so could be some of the same and when you have black cats it is hard to tell which one is which

Leave the cats in there a while. They will learn it's not the place to go for a quick snack. Well mine learned anyway.