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What animal is the most distructive to cage traps
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07/30/20 02:34 PM
07/30/20 02:34 PM
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JJHACK
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Over the years of capturing things in the USA raccoons seem to be the most damaging species to traps. Relentless chewers and also seem to pull in the most debris from the area around the trap that they can reach and pull in. Beavers in a cage trap are also quite strong at bending bits of trap wire and chewing what ever they can fit between those front teeth.
After those two the damage becomes much less. At least so far for me. The odd dog that is captured now and again will also chew and are the only things so far to roll a trap over while inside.
In South Africa civit cats, honey badgers, and Vervet monkeys are very distructive to cage traps, and the monkeys are expert at tripping them from the outside and then rolling them all around until the bait fall out. Baboons do not go inside but trip the door to shut when rolling them around and then tear them apart to get the food out. Same with a Hyena. They can chew the mesh open with little effort although there is often a bit of blood remaining so they chew in excess of the tissue strength of their gums and mouth.
I did see a Small brown hyena bite the sidewall of the land cruiser and puncture the tire, and I have seen a honey badger biting onto a back tire with the driver pulling away. The honey badger went around more than one complete reveloution before letting go. Both of these were due to blood from the bed of the truck dripping out onto the tire when we haul the game back to the skinning shed.
Last edited by JJHACK; 07/30/20 03:03 PM.
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Re: What animal is the most distructive to cage traps
[Re: JJHACK]
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07/31/20 08:39 AM
07/31/20 08:39 AM
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wormbobskey
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Coon seem to be the most destructive to cages for me with groundhogs coming in second. The ground hogs like to bend the doors on my larger cages and have broken the welds on the wire mesh I'm assuming from chewing on it.
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