Would like some input on this one. It should be a no-brainer. Public facility with chain link fence experiencing coon damage. Numerous coon trails going under fence. Near a major highway, fishing stream flowing along fence, public access, tourist destination nearby, late summer, pets on and off leash commonly observed in the area. 220 conibears set in fence crawlunders would be everyones LAST choice, right?

Dog-proofs baited with something irresistible and then gang-set should clear up your problem in a short time.

That's what I was thinking,even mentioned that, but I was told, "you WILL set 220s in the fence, OR face disciplinary action". I don't work there anymore.

Comstocks.....buy 'em.

Don't use DP"S. They are not 100% dog proof! A dog with a long tongue is a goner.

I have all of those things, but was provided 220 conis and told I must use them or face dismissal for insubordination. Using my own traps would have been "a conflict of interest". Even snares would be a better option than bodygrips. This happened a little over a year ago, they saw the back of me, after ten years of employment. Just wondering if I did the right thing.

Good question. Would you have been held responsible for killing every pet dog and cat that decided to stick its head in a Coni? If the answer is yes, then you did the right thing. If they would have been responsible and got sued, they'd have fired you anyway!

They charged two guys with felonys for doing something like that . Yes we can place conibears on the ground . These two guys did it right next to houses and killed the niegbors dog . I would go there right before dark and hang a dozen or more snares on that coon trail and come back just at first light you should have every single one . Very easy animal to snare . Use dog friendly snares . Snares set low to the ground dogs just nock them down .High powered pellet gun for dispatch . No blood little less noise . Sorry cooling weather has turned me from passive happy live trapper to ok I've had it let's just use the real traps . Been screwing conibears on houses all day .

Since I was held responsible for the bosses controlled substances that he left in a state owned vehicle, right up until the point that I suggested we all get tested......my guess is that they would have had my back right up until I screwed up and caught a non-target.

I ended up setting up inside the fence in some culverts produced results and got crawled for it. I wasn't long leaving, just had to line up another job, but that was the deciding factor.

Okay Pesky, I'll bite again. What are you screwing Conibears on people's houses for now? Woodpeckers?

I trapped the place for years outside of work hours and during fur season. Used every method mentioned here and then some. Was told I couldn't trap because of potential "pr issues" and the fact that the new boss had a free ranging cat. After two years coons were about to carry off the place. So the decision was made that the boss is putting his cat up, and I'm going to set 220s in the fence, (because I'm a dirty trapper after all), because he read about it in a book somewhere. I'ts amazing what a management change will do to a place. I still feel like writing somebody a letter about the stuff that went on there, newspaper, governor. Tried going up the chain of command, but it's hard when 4 out of 5 tiers of management above you were college roomate drinking buddies.

Frankly, if someone tells me to trap this critter or that critter, the only instruction I want from them is "What critter and how many?" After all, I'm the trapper here. If the "Boss" knows so much about trapping then let HIM do it.

I had a plumbing job like that once. I was hired to be the plumber for a maintenance crew with the county. That was my job and title, "Plumber". It's also what my father did for a living for 45 years and what I had been doing since childhood. When the supervisor, who's never had any plumbing experience in his life, came up behind me one day and started trying to tell my how to fix the circulatory pump I was working on, I politely reminded him that he hired ME to do this job.

But, for the record, you could use 220's in a hooded box set. This will reduce the chances of a dog catch but I still wouldn't bet my life on it.

Were I to be given instructions like that I would refuse the conibears and inform "Boss" that there are better ways.

You did the right thing.

You got it Rick . The squirrel calls have started up again . And good thing it's been kinda hard selling bat jobs lately . People are going how much a lot lately . Cooling temps and nut Hording have put the squirrels back in the attics and the coons are right behind them . Should be a lot of good squirrel work to come nock on wood . Need to just get buy these elections people have lost fate in there house being worth putting money back into . You have a half dozen red squirrels chasing each other around in a attic people are ready to take care of that . I bid a nice 3 story home yesterday and will hear back Thursday on that .i counted 30 squirrel holes from the ground . The house isn't very old and has lost power to the up stairs bathroom lights . That's not good

Hey!... It just occurred to me. Now that you are no longer employed at the place, you should enter a bid for coon control!

Let's see them claim "conflict of interest" with that!

Pesky it's funny how the animals use attics, heat runs 'em out for awhile, probably a short while up there, and longer for people like Rick down in GA.

This employer was the department of game and fish, so you couldn't possibly expect them to make wise game management decisions. They lost three of us there, over several issues, mainly a manager prone to substance abuse and temper tantrums. The bosses have the place to themselves now, and no clue how to do alot of what goes on there. They lost a combined 40 years of experience within a short time of a management change. And yes, I'm waiting for the call, it will never come, they would let the coons eat every fish in the place before they called me. They were just eating the ones killed by mismanagement anyway.

Maybe it's just me because we don't use Conibears on squirrels. ( Those hanging dead bodies tend to scare the kids ) But anyway, I could never set and postion a Conibear as quickly as I can put a cage on a house. And the same with resetting after a catch.

Sounds like some video ideas thanks Paul