We’ve all seen those cheap tractor supply cage traps with the flimsy doors,,
Has anyone ever devised a way to strengthen those doors??

Yep, buy a better cage

you could strength them several ways ply wood with screws and washers or anything similar i find the coons love to destroy the pan trip so i just lay a pice of ply would in there

I had a customer that had bought one of them, caught a big raccoon in it. Thought she had caught her cat as the cage was covered with a blanket. She brought it into her bedroom and realized it wasn’t fluffy! Called me, the coon had pulled the blanket in all around the door. I guess beefing up the door that was already broken. She was pretty lucky, the raccoon not so much.

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Imagine if that coon had gotten loose in the house.

I guess you could JB weld some steel rods on the door or otherwise attach some or replace the door altogether.

Don’t buy one. It’s not just the door that’s an issue. Whole thing is too light and cheap.
I’ve had coon destroy those and literally eat their way through the light gauge wire out the back.
Here is a tractor supply “coon” trap and what a coon can do to it.
Door is bent, rod assembly broken, light gauge foot pan bent to (This word is unacceptable on Trapperman), and the coon chewed its way through a hole right out the back.
Get a good cage and don’t waste money on the cheap ones.

Those ought to come with a warning label........"NOT SUITABLE FOR RACCOON".

Would save a lot of trouble.

Nice looking cage trap

They will bend up the pan also

Harbor Freights are no better might be worse. Not sure if they ever try and sell them anymore.

wws

Buy the time your done modding one you could have built one 5x better and more heavy duty honestly....and this is coming from me

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Truth.

I have the large Duke , cheap but tough... no damage from these coons.

I've responded to calls like that

Cheap cages hold the coons you don’t want the big ones destroy them quickly. I made my own cages out of 12.5 gauge lobster wire they never broke a wire on that stuff.