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darz5150
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# Posted: 6 Jun 2024 02:26am
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ICC.
Do you own the trap, and they relocate for free?
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paulz
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# Posted: 6 Jun 2024 02:29am
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Dog barking last night but it was just this. Rat trap set up tonight.
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ICC
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# Posted: 6 Jun 2024 02:57am
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My son owns the trap. The county animal control handled the transport and release 'sin costo'
I don't know if that (no charge) is very common, but his county is considerably more wealthy with more community services than mine. They do have a considerable wild animal population to contend with as the townsite is mountain mesa tops with many interspersed canyons; homes on the finger like mesas with animals in the in between canyons. Wide variety of wildlife; deer, bears , raccoons, coyotes, rabbits, etc.
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ICC
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# Posted: 6 Jun 2024 10:23pm
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Update: Raccoons can be very smart. My son reports that there is yet another raccoon and it will not go inside the trap far enough to grab the marshmallow that he places on the trigger mechanism. Perhaps it saw one of the others get caught. It has taken a couple of marshmallows that were left outside the cage leading into the open end and one marshmallow that was placed inside a few inches before the last one on the trigger mechanism. But it stops. My son says he will continue leaving s marshmallow bait on the trigger plate as the raccoon only has to give into temptation/greed once. We shall see what develops.
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paulz
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# Posted: 6 Jun 2024 10:56pm
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Hmm, interesting. My guy came last night, dog didn’t wake up. That I can live with. I had set three traps, there were dead little mice in the little ones but the bigger one was unsprung, peanut butter gone. I’ll try tying a piece of meat tonight.
Raccoon trap in stock at local Harbor Freight, probably next. It doesn’t bother me coming around, if it keeps the dog quiet.
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paulz
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# Posted: 14 Jun 2024 01:15pm - Edited by: paulz
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Been pretty quiet around here lately, touch wood. Some new Does with their little ones passing by, my understanding is they don’t deter the raccoon population though.
Do these things do anything for raccoons? Got a coupon to use this weekend…
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ICC
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# Posted: 14 Jun 2024 07:48pm
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Quoting: paulz Do these things do anything for raccoons
No idea
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paulz
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# Posted: 14 Jun 2024 08:25pm - Edited by: paulz
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Ok well for 8 bucks I’ll try one. If I catch them out there doing the two step around it I’ll report back.
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ICC
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# Posted: 18 Jun 2024 11:30pm
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#3, noticably bigger than the others...
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paulz
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# Posted: 19 Jun 2024 01:42am
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There are some guys that eat them I hear.
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FishHog
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# Posted: 19 Jun 2024 11:18am
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I’ve eaten one. Made pulled raccoon sandwich’s for a wild game dinner. A little greasy but very tasty. I’m sure you could drain the grease better and it would be great
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paulz
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# Posted: 19 Jun 2024 08:49pm - Edited by: paulz
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I was at a horse boarding/training place down the road the other day. The workers catch many raccoons, and cook em up.
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paulz
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# Posted: 8 Mar 2025 07:01am
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Well they’re back. Been a good winter stretch. I did leave a bag of apples out but was untouched. Automatic night lights coming on, dog barking.. I even turned on the outside radio, worked last year, still coming back. Might be time to buy one of those fancy deterrents.
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gcrank1
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# Posted: 8 Mar 2025 10:05am
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Ya gotta play music they dont like 
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paulz
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# Posted: 8 Mar 2025 10:25am
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Ha yeah thought about that. About the third time the outside light came on I looked out the window and there it was, right by the door. When I went out to turn the radio on it was 2am and 30 something outside. All I could dial in was a talk show, no music on AM.
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toyota_mdt_tech
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# Posted: 14 Mar 2025 08:15am
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Quoting: darz5150 Racoons are crafty/smart. I literally watched live on camera, a racoon unhook 2 screen door hooks to open the door on my chicken coop.
They have thumbs, that is a game changer.
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paulz
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# Posted: 14 Mar 2025 01:06pm
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The one that was here the other night was right outside the cabin window, not 6 feet away. I got to wondering, gee kinda cute, maybe a pet? Looked it up, apparently some have done it but many reasons not to,
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toyota_mdt_tech
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# Posted: 2 Apr 2025 08:02am
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Paul, get them as a baby, you can make a good pet out of them, but after than, no deal. Meanest little things you ever saw, just behind wolverines and honey badgers.
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toyota_mdt_tech
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# Posted: 2 Apr 2025 08:03am
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Quoting: paulz Might be time to buy one of those fancy deterrents.
Mouse blocker pro.
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paulz
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# Posted: 2 Apr 2025 08:44am
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Thanks tmt. Quiet here last couple weeks, out of sight out of mind.. Not much for any wildlife, big birds starting to come by, and a coyote looks like. Raccoons can’t be far behind. I do now keep a radio under the overhang, left on overnight it seems to keep them away. Once I start cooking outside more, if they return I’ll shell out the 100 for the mouse blocker.
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neb
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# Posted: 13 Apr 2025 02:44pm
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DP traps work great. Dog Proof traps if not familiar with them. You will only catch coons and can set right in yard with other animals around cats' dogs etc.
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paulz
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# Posted: 13 Apr 2025 06:15pm
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Quoting: neb DP traps work great
Thanks, just looked at a picture. So it catches their feet? Why not a dogs? Or tongue? Do you have a dead coon on your hands after?
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