Large Live Animal Trap

I use a havaheart I got from the local hardware store. it works good. had to catch one my cats a couple times before he stayed out. for a racoon you'll need a extra large size and they are smart and can still get out if it dosen't lock before they grab the door and open it back up.

The new design that haveaheart went to aint worth chit for coons!!! Trust me  We have 5 of them and possums will hold, coons, forget it!!  the old ones worked super but new ones, NO WAY !! I had a coon in an expensive coyote trap,---finally pried the door over enough to get out! --- The ONLY to kill coons is to shoot! (sorry)!--poison don't work very well either because they walk right past it!


Edited by ac fleet - 10 May 2019 at 9:25am

Dave...the trick is to keep checking the traps often. I also got my traps from HF, and they work great! came 3 traps ina package deal. I have re-located many coons from my traps...mostly into a show barn of a stockholder!

my momma taughts me to share!

Fer coons, I use Duke's dog proof coon traps.  Please video the release of the coon, you would get a lotta hits on the video...

I put a piece of plywood under the trap larger than the trap. I put marshmellows between the trap and wood by stting the trap on the marshmellows past where the plate is but just barely ! I caught 23 one winter and 11 last winter . They trip it whe trying to pull the marshmellows from under the trap. Use a large enough trap so they can't reach in from the outside. Most die
From lead poisoning later .

Edited by Dave H - 11 May 2019 at 12:48pm

I have or had a Have a Heart trap and caught over 12 raccoons with it. Had means someone borrowed it and I have not seen it sense then. Take a tuna can and drill some holes in the bottom of the can and then zip tie it in the center of the back of the cage because they will try to reach in and drag the can over to the side while outside of the cage. Dry cat food worked for me as bait. Used heavy leather gloves to move cage to truck. Drove them several miles away and released them.

Dave H wrote: I have one of those haveaheart type trap - must be a look a like.  Anyhow this big ole tom cat got in it and tripped the trigger.  he went berserk when the door hit him in the rear. I have a video of him springing his way out of the trap but do not know how to post it. Anyhow, if someone wants to send me an email address i will gladly send the video so it can be posted. thendrix, my trap will not hold a coon or a big tom cat, they just pring it open - seems impossible but I have it on film. Anyhow can you steer me to a trap that a coon or tom cannot spring open and escape?

What size is your trap? The have a heart traps I've seen come in 3 or 4 different sizes. Some small enough for a chipmunk or squirrel. The traps we use for coons are about 12" wide by 14 or maybe 16 inches tall and 24 to 30 inches long or so.

Please spare me all the rifles, shotguns, bazookas, hand grenades etc info.

 

---bazookas ? 

Or landmines.

i have 2 traps i use,,,they may be older havahart traps i dont know,,i just went out to look,,,no name on the one i looked at,,,,but it is 15-16" square,,,42" long,,,trap door on the end that is spring loaded and locks closed,,,got them at the local farm store here in Missouri,,,(Farm & Home),,,i use cheapest cat food,,,or a little pile of horse feed,,,or anything else i can get my hands on,,,put it all the way in the back so they have to go in to get it,,,,bet i have caught at least 100 coons in the last 5-8 years in them,,,,NEVER had one get out,,,if the trap is tripped it has a animal in it