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Trapping

Nutterbuster

Nutterbuster

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After the untimely reduction in production of our Alternative Protein Factory (dead hen in coop) Her Grace commissioned me to wage Unholy War against the masked denizens of the night. Full lethal force against the heathen forces was authorized and encouraged, due to us being greatly outnumbered. Only one man of fighting age in the castle, against a solid 4 or more raccoons...

Initial skirmish last night resulted in one casualty. A rooftop sniper was able to take out a scout shortly after sunset. Further skirmishes resulted in questionable results. It is possible that, assured of a quick victory, a premature celebration at the mead hall impaired our troops' marksmanship.

As a precautionary measure, a cunning trap was laid. From our rations we spared bread of corn, onions, and oily fishes. We placed this offering in the trap, and with the rising of the sun were heartened to find that our fiery eyed foes were considerably less intimidating when not veiled by night.
 
Gator said:
Its fun until you catch a skunk!
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Tue that! We put marshmallows and blueberries in our live traps, which (supposedly) will not attract skunks or cats, but still draw in raccoons. That worked for us, but it was a small sample size (caught maybe half a dozen raccoons, no skunks or cats).

Excellent storytelling, @Nutterbuster — got a chuckle reading it this morning!
 
Gator said:
Its fun until you catch a skunk!
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Or the neighbors cat . . . I set a skunk live trap a few years back so I could "Relocate them" as I explained to my tree hugging neighbors when they questioned me. One morning I came out to find another neighbors cat captured in the live trap. Talk about a pissed off animal with claws and teeth . . . :eek:

We've all heard the old adage about locking your significant other and your dog in the trunk to see who really loves you. I definitely wouldn't recommend that process with a feline. That cat tore me up trying to let it out of that live trap.
 
boyne bowhunter said:
Or the neighbors cat . . . I set a skunk live trap a few years back so I could "Relocate them" as I explained to my tree hugging neighbors when they questioned me. One morning I came out to find another neighbors cat captured in the live trap. Talk about a pissed off animal with claws and teeth . . . :eek:

We've all heard the old adage about locking your significant other and your dog in the trunk to see who really loves you. I definitely wouldn't recommend that process with a feline. That cat tore me up trying to let it out of that live trap.
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It was prolly just dehydrated. Should have given it some radiatorade. Would have been a much calmer release.
 
For the record, I "relocated" the skunks much the same way Sir @Nutterbuster dealt with his chicken thief but I had to transport them away from the house to do it. I just couldn't bring myself do that to some kids pet though. I have to admit though I did consider it after it caught me a couple of times while trying to release latch and dump it out.
 
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boyne bowhunter said:
For the record, I "relocated" the skunks much the same way Sir @Nutterbuster dealt with his chicken thief but I had to transport them away from the house to do it. I just couldn't bring myself do that to some kids pet though. I have to admit though I did consider it after it caught me a couple of times while trying to release latch and dump it out.
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I guess I have always viewed it that if they are on my property they are feral. If they were pets, the owners would keep them in or on their property. But I also grew up with multiple neighbors that let their cats run free most of the time. Several got after my pet duck. Most of them I found out had already used up 8 lives before they tried to eat my duck. Should have taken better care of that last one.
 
Y'all are some sick puppies. Here me and Amos was thinking it was kinda mean to pop one in the face with a .22wmr bullet and throw 'em in the river.

Neighbor gave me permission to set a trap under his camp. Saw one under there last night and didn't fire because I didn't want to risk busting a pipe or something. Sarah says she saw 4 sets of eyes one night. I've only seen three. So we're either down to the last man or we have a two man team. Even odds at least. Me and ole Amos think we can take'em.
 
swampsnyper said:
Dog proof traps are the way to go.
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Dogproofs are great but I am not a fan of them in most situations even though I own 4-5doz of the things. I almost never set them in nuisance situations because a caught raccoon will tear up everything in a 4-6ft radius assuming it's staked down and using stock chain. Plus you miss soooooooooooooooooo many coon with em.
 
I killed like 9 skunks in 2 weeks one-year that were getting into my coop. One of them killed 19 pullets in one night. Conibear traps, period. Kills before they spray, and easy to leave an open path and set them up.

Man the garbage guy hated me that month.
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boyne bowhunter said:
Or the neighbors cat . . . I set a skunk live trap a few years back so I could "Relocate them" as I explained to my tree hugging neighbors when they questioned me. One morning I came out to find another neighbors cat captured in the live trap. Talk about a pissed off animal with claws and teeth . . . :eek:

We've all heard the old adage about locking your significant other and your dog in the trunk to see who really loves you. I definitely wouldn't recommend that process with a feline. That cat tore me up trying to let it out of that live trap.
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That's what they make pistols for. Makes them much easier to remove.
 
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