Trapping smart coons

[ConcreteFinishing StuccoGuy]

Got a family of trap wise coons in the garage. They laugh at my best efforts to trap and release in area where its legal to discharge a firearm. Little SOB's are starting to piss me off as the smell rises with the warmer weather. Any suggestions?????????????

 

[Doug Miller]

Got a family of trap wise coons in the garage. They laugh at my best efforts to trap and release in area where its legal to discharge a firearm. Little SOB's are starting to piss me off as the smell rises with the warmer weather. Any suggestions?????????????

Shoot 'em with a pellet gun?

No, wait, you're in the People's Republic of Canada. I bet you can't buy pellet guns, can you?

Bow and arrow? Slingshot?

 

[ds549]

i use the havaheart box trap, put a hotdog in there and they cant resistit..lucas

 

[m Ransley]

I got rid of a family in a garage with simply a lit piece of paper thrown on the floor. They dont like fire or smoke and left. Perhaps a metal bucket with oil and a rag will make enough smoke. Even a radio left on will drive them out, they need their sleep to.

 

[dadiOH]

I got rid of a family in a garage with simply a lit piece of paper thrown on the floor. They dont like fire or smoke and left. Perhaps a metal bucket with oil and a rag will make enough smoke. Even a radio left on will drive them out, they need their sleep to.

Especially tuned to a rap station

 

[William W. Plummer]

Shoot 'em with a pellet gun?

No, wait, you're in the People's Republic of Canada. I bet you can't buy pellet guns, can you?

Bow and arrow? Slingshot?

Pellet guns and WristRockets are not strong enough.

The only thing that has kept them out of my gardens is a small electric fence. A battery operated one is less that $100. I put it about 8" off the ground outside a 2" mesh fence. The fence was also horizonal to prevent digging under the vertical fence.

 

[ConcreteFinishing StuccoGuy]

Will try and tanx for your suggests. As far as guns and the peeps rupub of Kanada, I am a hunter, own guns and use em, but unlike our mentally challenged american buddies we are smart enough to know that you don't discharge a gun indoors or a densely populated area.

Now go watch any Micheal Moore movie and vote for Dumb-dumb Dubya out of spite for them 'intellectuals' what can read without moving lips.

 

[tm]

Will try and tanx for your suggests. As far as guns and the peeps rupub of Kanada, I am a hunter, own guns and use em, but unlike our mentally challenged american buddies we are smart enough to know that you don't discharge a gun indoors

Of course, wouldn't want to blow a hole in your igloo.

 

[Patrick (archive)]

Got a family of trap wise coons in the garage. They laugh at my best efforts to trap and release in area where its legal to discharge a firearm. Little SOB's are starting to piss me off as the smell rises with the warmer weather. Any suggestions?????????????

I always used cat food (small tins) as bait but they would get it out and not set off the trap door. Started using wire or ty wraps to hold it in the trap. Use ring pull top cat food, open it about half way, and attach it to the side. They have to struggle with it longer and I seem to catch more

 

[Bert Byfield]

Got a family of trap wise coons in the garage. They laugh at my best Do you suppose they are done raising baby racoons? I have them in the crawlspace attic, and worry that I'll be leaving a litter to starve up there somewhere.

 

[TPutmann]

Got a family of trap wise coons in the garage. They laugh at my best efforts to trap and release in area where its legal to discharge a firearm. Little SOB's are starting to piss me off as the smell rises with the warmer weather. Any suggestions?????????????

Pour some ammonia in the area where they are located. They'll leave !!!

 

[Stormin Mormon]

Pans of automobile anti freeze. Sweet taste, and turns toxic when digested.

Got a family of trap wise coons in the garage. They laugh at my best efforts to trap and release in area where its legal to discharge a firearm. Little SOB's are starting to piss me off as the smell rises with the warmer weather. Any suggestions?????????????

I always used cat food (small tins) as bait but they would get it out and not set off the trap door. Started using wire or ty wraps to hold it in the trap. Use ring pull top cat food, open it about half way, and attach it to the side. They have to struggle with it longer and I seem to catch more

 

[Stormin Mormon]

Dead racoons, isn't that the goal here?

 

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Forget about trapping, if she has a litter in your attic. Do the following:

1. DON'T close up any openings from the attic to the outdoors, just yet.
2. Set pans of ammonia around the area where you hear activity from the litter or others.
3. Set up lights and a radio (playing fairly loudly) in the attic area.

Be sure to play RAP music. That will drive both the coons and your family out of the house

 

[PaPaPeng]

I got rid of a family in a garage with simply a lit piece of paper thrown on the floor. They dont like fire or smoke and left. Perhaps a metal bucket with oil and a rag will make enough smoke. Even a radio left on will drive them out, they need their sleep to.

Reminds me of a Readers Digest story. The roofer discovered a family of coons living in the chimney and told the house owner. "Why don't you smoke them out?" he suggested. House owner replied., "Tried. They stuffed up the chimney and smoked us out."

 

[Andy (archive)]

Not true. Coons like rap music ........

(Sorry, I just couldn't resist that one)

 

[Bert Byfield]

Not true. Coons like rap music ........
(Sorry, I just couldn't resist that one)

It's not funny, and your inability to resist making a racist jokes says some very ugly things about you.

 

[Andy (archive)]

.... and you're tendency to look for a fight over an innocent remark about wildlife says a lot about you.....

...... I bet you actually like rap music....

 

[Stormin Mormon]

I'm able to resist. I choose not to.

Not true. Coons like rap music ........
(Sorry, I just couldn't resist that one)

It's not funny, and your inability to resist making a racist jokes says some very ugly things about you.

 

[Stormin Mormon]

Show right, brother!

Striped or solid ones?