I have troubles using cubbies or similar sets with eye attractions. I have caught more cats in dirt holes than any set if the weather permits. Some of my sets are pre made before season so I don't have to deal with chopping frozen ground here in Minnesota.

looks like you could make them cheaply with a feather and a printer

Cameras on my sets limit what movement attractors I can use unless I can block them from triggering the cameras or put them off to the sides of the cams. The cubby is also an attraction on its own even the ones I leave out get attention, the cats seem to need to check them out.

Shot a few collard doves the other day for bait (invasive species) hung a couple wings in the brush out of line of the cams it’s working so far.

I use a silver bird scare tape, one with what look like prisms. It seems to work well, comes on a roll like flagging tape and is made of mylar I believe. It moves in the slightest breeze and with the prisms, reflects light really well.

I use something like the madtrapper makes on youtube and also bucket and chain set up

Menards sells a green floral wire that’s thin but strong I also save the strings on feed sacks that’s a better grade of string.

Are you saying the spine of the feather should be horizontal, instead of vertical? If not, you got a pic?

I used that method many years ago.


These are all flat sets. I couldn’t typically dig a dirt hole this time of year. Although, it’s been in the 40s and even 50s.