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Baiting live traps to avoid barn cats? #407907
11/11/07 11:24 AM
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What can i bait my live traps with for coon to affoid barn cats? Im about ready to start shooting the dang things

Re: Baiting live traps to avoid barn cats? [Re: Trevor32] #407910
11/11/07 11:29 AM
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Marshmellows.


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Re: Baiting live traps to avoid barn cats? [Re: Jtrapper] #407915
11/11/07 11:33 AM
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as far as i know there is no substance on earth

Re: Baiting live traps to avoid barn cats? [Re: ketchikan] #407920
11/11/07 11:36 AM
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Try the marshmellows w/peanut butter smeared on them. The smell will draw them. The white marshmellow will get their eye!
Best I know of. Good Luck!


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Re: Baiting live traps to avoid barn cats? [Re: MMichtrapper] #407922
11/11/07 11:37 AM
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nothing, cats will eat the same thing as a coon, ecspecially barn cats

Re: Baiting live traps to avoid barn cats? [Re: MMichtrapper] #407924
11/11/07 11:39 AM
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Ive removed alot of coons from people's yard's that had 20-30 free roaming stinking house cats, never caught a cat with marshmellows.


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Re: Baiting live traps to avoid barn cats? [Re: Jtrapper] #407926
11/11/07 11:40 AM
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musta got lucky j! i didnt turn out so lucky lol

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Re: Baiting live traps to avoid barn cats? [Re: Big Mac] #407928
11/11/07 11:45 AM
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Ever baited those traps with anything else? Might of had different odors in the trap when ya set it out?

Rabies project we use alot of sardines in them, but i keep two cages here at the house just for removal from urban areas and never put anything in them but marshmellow's. Might be the reason im lucky? lol.

Same ol set up where ever i go, an older lady living alone feeding every stray cat for miles around on her back porch, which also attracts the coons. One house i went to a big coon ran out of the yard when i pulled up at 1 oclock in the evening! Set two cages out and had 3 coons the next day ,lol. Lady's yard was over run with coons, lol.


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Re: Baiting live traps to avoid barn cats? [Re: Jtrapper] #407931
11/11/07 11:50 AM
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Two things. Coons are a naturally curious animal and they have a sweet tooth.


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Re: Baiting live traps to avoid barn cats? [Re: warrior] #407933
11/11/07 11:52 AM
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Get a couple of Griz Getrz. I trap a lot of barns here for farmers and used to use live traps but now use only getrz.

Re: Baiting live traps to avoid barn cats? [Re: ] #407948
11/11/07 12:04 PM
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Orange circus peanuts, sweet corn on the cob


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Re: Baiting live traps to avoid barn cats? [Re: BuckeyeRaTrapin'] #407969
11/11/07 12:24 PM
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vanilla extract on a peice of bread or a bagel


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Re: Baiting live traps to avoid barn cats? [Re: lennitrapper] #407980
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IVe used blackies sledge hammer scent wadded up in part of a brown paper sack thought that my work. I was wrong had a double on the cats.

Re: Baiting live traps to avoid barn cats? [Re: Trevor32] #407982
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Ill try the marshmellows

Re: Baiting live traps to avoid barn cats? [Re: Trevor32] #408759
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Grape,Cherry or Strawberry jam has done the trick loads of times for me. Cats I was trapping around weren't interested in it. Might work for you.
Worst case scenario....you can have jam on your toast for breakfast....LOL.


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Re: Baiting live traps to avoid barn cats? [Re: Big Mac] #408797
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 Originally Posted By: Big Mac
musta got lucky j! i didnt turn out so lucky lol


me either..LOL


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Re: Baiting live traps to avoid barn cats? [Re: cathryn] #408801
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Hey Cathryn use marshmellows!!!! LMAO


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Re: Baiting live traps to avoid barn cats? [Re: Cattrax] #408855
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Never had a marshmallow cat yet. Ive set marshamallows around my cats' food bowl and they dont touch 'em.

Re: Baiting live traps to avoid barn cats? [Re: SNIPERBBB] #408946
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shelled feed corn they love it. Scatter some around your trap and put most of it in the back of the live trap set two or three traps together you'll get some doubles if you have bunch of them.


Re: Baiting live traps to avoid barn cats? [Re: WildCat] #409025
11/12/07 12:11 AM
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I gotta side with Cathryn on this one. Within 24 hours of setting my first coon cuff ever I got a barn cat on marshmellows.

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