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need advice on grub digging coon #8223891
09/26/24 08:31 PM
09/26/24 08:31 PM
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I have a yard that has coon doing severe damage looking for grubs. It started out in one spot. Caught one coon and a possum. Then no digging for a few days and now they are back digging in another spot. So I move the cages to the new digging spot. Next day another new digging spot. Move the cages again. So now they are digging in a new spot every couple days. Im using just regular baits like I nowmally would. Any advice on what to do in this situation? They just totally ignore the cages and focused on the grubs. I have to use cages due to the cats. Thanks in advance.

Re: need advice on grub digging coon [Re: scheide] #8224026
09/27/24 05:13 AM
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How do you know it’s not a skunk?

What are the “regular baits” that you’re using?

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Re: need advice on grub digging coon [Re: scheide] #8224070
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Get rid of the grubs. There's powders/treatments available that will kill them.

Re: need advice on grub digging coon [Re: scheide] #8224334
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The lure/bait I use when coon/skunks are grubbing is usually a trail of marshmallows and trailing scent leading to the trap and mallows with some grubstake or similar imitation grub lure. I have also had success with the peanut butter and fried chicken. I will try to set a few traps where I think they may be coming from, some just ahead of where they were the night before and a few where I think they might be headed next. Don't be surprised if you catch a few skunks as well as the coons. Most of my summer lure/bait has come from WCS and I have not been disappointed.
Good luck

Re: need advice on grub digging coon [Re: scheide] #8305618
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220's man. Why relocate those coons and cause someone else a problem, or they just return to where you trapped them again. As for the cats? Oh well. If they were staying at home, in the House where they belong, instead of out and about killing songbirds and anything else they can catch/kill, they wouldn't have to worry about getting caught in a trap in their NEIGHBORS yard and eliminated! Now would they! They did a study in the State of Wisconsin many years ago and they estimated that House Cats in the State of Wisconsin were killing 600,000 Songbirds a year! That is only one State out of 50. The LAST thing I'd worry about would be "TRESSPASSING" cats! If the Cat's were doing their job.... They would "run-off" any Racoon that came in their yard! I kill any cat that I see that's not in their yard. A 110-120 conibear stuck in an empty Pepsi box opening with a Tuna fish lid thrown inside for bait and the 110-120 blocking the hole in the 12-pack box really does a great job on them. Make sure you anchor the trap securely! The "set" looks like nothing out of the ordinary sitting out in someone's backyard. Check the trap before first light and if the neighbor's cat is in there dead. It goes in a bread bag and into the garbage. What cat!? You just saved at least 20 Songbirds from that cat?

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