Need two porcupines gone.

Customers have a dog, no pinch points, and porkys only stop by once or twice a week at 2 am.

Checked out all Denning sites, no one home, no fresh sign in nearby trees.


They are chewing the underside of the cottage.


What would you bait them with?

i catch them with ,apples and salt ,

Chunks of mineral licks, table salt in a container?

There should be a worn trail where they are acessing under the camp. I would try to trap them there where they are doing the damage.Put exclusion wire around the bottom of the camp after you catch them..

Rabbit salt spools are the perfect size for trapping with a hole for threading wire.

These

https://faithwayfeeds.com/product/rabbit-salt-spools/

Salt in a cage trap.

As brought out, slices of apple, salted will do the trick. Also salt licks or a rag soaked in salt water put in cage should work, as mentioned also. Just put cage where they are chewing on cottage or a location it has been seen if no definite trails or travel routes.

No porky's down here but can you borrow a page from the armadillo trapping manual and drift fence them?

Doing a armadillo job now where they are digging under a porch. Cages set along foundation using the shrubbery as a funnel. Upstream from there on the travel lanes using the back yard chain link as on side of a vee funnel to trap. Other side is 50' of 12" plastic mesh netting using grade stakes as posts.

While that's armadillo standard it's also caged groundhogs, rabbits, squirrels, box turtles, cats, small dogs, raccoons, skunks and opossums. Always opossums.

Comstock double door trap on the trail that they always follow
Use fencing as needed

No bait

I use a good sized cage trap with cut up apples soaked in a lot of salt.

Cottage is massive on high piers. sixty feet long, fifty wide, extensive decks. Would take a week of sundays to exclude it. Good news is they can afford it. lol



And its just open georgian bay bush. No visible trails. Owner says they just wander all around.. Damage is spread out under the building. They just stand on their back legs and chew wherever the LVLs are close enough to the ground.

Good news is I shot one last night. I am a short boat ride from them. I told buddy to just call me when he hears the other one chewing and ill come get it...

Cottage is between two massively high rock areas further to each side of the cottage. Checked it all out last night and found cave after cave of winter denning sites. Could have filled a pickup truck with built up porky crap. Some caves I could crawl right in.

Perfect porky habitat if I ever saw it.

One down anyway. I hate porkys. Quills always all over the boat lol.

I may drop off a trap in the area of the worst damage with some apples and salt for bait. Might save me a 2am trip out to the island. lol

My only wisdom for you is after you skin it, don't flesh it over your knee...