Dog proof traps

[riverboss]

Do they make a cooking device to set them?
My hands are so broken up its all I can do to set one is there a trick to it?
Going to trap some coons and possums this fall and need to get me a few.

 

[1wildcatfan]

Do they make a cooking device to set them?
My hands are so broken up its all I can do to set one is there a trick to it?
Going to trap some coons and possums this fall and need to get me a few.

Yes. Looks like this. I painted mine orange so I could find them.

 

[riverboss]

Thanks I have to find one.

 

[Little FR]

Big channel locks will pull it closed. I always have trouble getting the tab set in place.

 

[Meatstick]

Set em, whatever it takes. I love it.
I've started something around here. 3 stores in a 50 mile radius are trying to keep dogproofs in stock, and can't all of a sudden

 

[ancienthunter]

I usually set my foot on the spring to push it down and take my hand push the latch over the spring and hook it in. Just set one a couple hours ago, coon kept getting in my neighbor outbuilding and her cats food. She called 30 minutes ago to tell me we had a coon. I dispatched it and reset the trap in case it had cousins. One down a million to go.

 

[1wildcatfan]

I usually set my foot on the spring to push it down and take my hand push the latch over the spring and hook it in. Just set one a couple hours ago, coon kept getting in my neighbor outbuilding and her cats food. She called 30 minutes ago to tell me we had a coon. I dispatched it and reset the trap in case it had cousins. One down a million to go.

Bait????

 

[keeruss8]

I use a flat head screw driver to push it down. I had good luck with mini marshmallows

 

[ancienthunter]

Bait????

Cat food

 

[DocPain]

Cat food

Cat food or dogfood especially with the omega 3 oils that tend to have a little fishy smell. Little marshmallows work good also. Coons have a sweet tooth!

 

[Little FR]

Cat food or dogfood especially with the omega 3 oils that tend to have a little fishy smell. Little marshmallows work good also. Coons have a sweet tooth!

Ive had terrible luck with marshmallows. Knocked a few neighborhood dogs teeth out with cat food, they just chew on it till the trap busts their jaw.

Any kind of bread or cracker with vanilla extract drizzled on it does great. I use zebra cakes I eat most of first a lot of times.

 

[1wildcatfan]

Ive had terrible luck with marshmallows. Knocked a few neighborhood dogs teeth out with cat food, they just chew on it till the trap busts their jaw.

Any kind of bread or cracker with vanilla extract drizzled on it does great. I use zebra cakes I eat most of first a lot of times.

Yeah, I'm not wasting a good honey bun.

 

[Feedman]

Yeah, I'm not wasting a good honey bun.

Me either.
cat food and marshmellows

 

[Meatstick]

I use goldfish crackers more than anything else. I still squish a chipmunk on occasion, but that seems to be about the only by catch. Coons and possums love em

 

[chadwimc]

Bait????

A regular size marshmallow under the trigger, one on top in the tube. Drip a few drops of cheap vanilla extract on top. No cats. No skunks. And almost never any 'possum.