Nuisance Trapping.

[Jackalope]

I figured I'd start a thread about the nuisance animals we have to trap. When we moved in there was a family of coons in the dormer attic that I couldn't get to from inside the attic. I even tried trapping them on the roof but they would not go in the live trap. Eventually I drilled a hole in the ceiling of the dormer and used a piece of vacuum line on the nozzle of some mace and sprayed it in the enclosed area. They departed that night.

Since then I have been trapping raccoons by my garbage cans because they open the lid to get in and then tear the bags all apart and make the inside of the cans disgusting. At first, I was catching them on almost a nightly basis. Now I only set them when the bags get messed with which is about every two weeks. I set the two dogproofs tonight and had one within an hour after sunset. This makes coon number 22 if my count is accurate. The strange thing is only 3 have been females.

I'm pretty sure this is one of the kits that was born in the attic as one of them had a bobbed tail.

 

[jagermeister]

Coons are such a pain in the ass. And a seemingly endless supply of them. Thank goodness they’re about as easy to trap as it gets.

 

[RedCloud]

That's a mess of coon you caught already.

 

[Floki]

Fugg. I thought this was about liberals..

 

[Jackalope]

This is the song that never ends.

 

[Jackalope]

Coons are such a pain in the ass. And a seemingly endless supply of them. Thank goodness they’re about as easy to trap as it gets.

These is no shortage of them around here. I just don't want them in my soffits or trash cans. I cut the larger limbs and trees away from the house but I refuse to get lickable cans. They're such a oain when you have your hands full and need to throw stuff away. Lord knows a decrease in population won't hurt anything. Stupid rakins

 

[RedCloud]

Neighborhood probably never had a coonass that thinned the population before .

People have probably been feeding the cute little critters. Hard to tell how many more you'll get from the neighbors attic lol

 

[Geezer II]

Put some ammonia in your cans

 

[giles]

Put some ammonia in your cans

Have you ever met his boys?! Don't do this or you will be making another one.

 

[Geezer II]

Have you ever met his boys?! Don't do this or you will be making another one.

Wtf

 

[Jackalope]

Another male.

 

[Geezer II]

Didja try the ammonia in the trash cans

 

[xbowguy]

They're cute when laying out like that.

Was painting last night...about 11 one came up driveway. Opened kitchen door and put a .177 pellet behind the front leg. He ran off but not sure how far...

 

[Jackalope]

Didja try the ammonia in the trash cans

I haven't. But I don't doubt it'll work.

Besides. This is more fun. .

 

[Geezer II]

I haven't. But I don't doubt it'll work.

Besides. This is more fun. .

Put it in my trash bags when i set them out on the road side - have to be out over night cuz guy comes at 4am - dang

 

[Mickey Merrie]

Flybait in Dr. Pepper. Put it under a pine or spruce tree. I've never done it myself, but I know a guy who has no pest problems anymore, just piles of various furs within 20 feet of the empty pie plate...

 

[Jackalope]

Flybait in Dr. Pepper. Put it under a pine or spruce tree. I've never done it myself, but I know a guy who has no pest problems anymore, just piles of various furs within 20 feet of the empty pie plate...

I have never done it myself but I knew a guy who used it to clean up coons on his corn pile. The problem is it's pretty indiscriminate and cats and dogs will get in it. But for coons it knocks them dead pretty quick.

 

[HE>I]

Could have posted this in the "Signs of Spring" too. Damn muskrat in the pond. Missed it a couple times with the 22 but the 20ga. with a load of 6's did the trick. Not exactly trapping but it was a nuisance.

 

[Jackalope]

He's so sleepy after a week of raiding my trash cans and strewing garbage everywhere while I was out of town. #25 and another male.

 

[OhioWhiteTails]

Aww, silly guy spilt ketchup everywhere.