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Setting a Bobcat Toilet #8554922
01/28/26 12:48 PM
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Yesterday I was scouting some new ground looking for bobcat sign. I was tracking a bobcat in the snow up a drainage. Lo and behold, I find a bobcat toilet under a tree that had some dirt still exposed in the root system. I knew what it was immediately. Just like I've seen my cat do over the years. Anyway For me, this is the 1st time I've ever seen a bobcat toilet. Now what? How would you set it?

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Re: Setting a Bobcat Toilet [Re: 1Simplemann] #8555862
01/29/26 07:12 PM
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Three possible answers: Snare the trail to the toilet or blind set the toilet. I’ve done both with great success. The other is gather up cat scat and make a new toilet very close by and then put fresh cat urine on the scat with a trap or two.

Re: Setting a Bobcat Toilet [Re: 1Simplemann] #8555887
01/29/26 07:42 PM
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Down here that’s the jackpot for cats. Put a trap right beside the scat and blend as natural as possible. If you can use a drag that’ll preserve that spot after a catch.
Don’t be afraid to put a gaudy looking set in close by they will notice. My best off a toilet is 4 cats and a fox off a scat set. Another cat and fox off the gaudy dirt hole across from it. But, we have cats like we have possums.

Re: Setting a Bobcat Toilet [Re: 1Simplemann] #8559108
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I have high hopes for this location. I have a camera on it but I was having some issues. I went out there to resolve the camera issue. I could see something in the trap from a distance so I got a little excited. I rushed down there and I got my hopes crushed. Porky decided the check out the set 1st. I put him down, re-set and and fixed the camera issue. Finger's crossed the cat will come back.

Re: Setting a Bobcat Toilet [Re: 1Simplemann] #8559139
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Good luck on the remake. My experience with porcupine remakes is the set is ruined after a porcupine catch. But maybe leave it and see what happens. I speak only from experience with canines not going into a porcupine remake.



Re: Setting a Bobcat Toilet [Re: 1Simplemann] #8559164
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one turd on the ground does not a toilet make...

bobcats do not just travel from toilet to toilet. They poop anywhere the urge strikes, at a toilet and otherwise. If you just found one random turd, your chances there are just fair to poor. For one turd, set up a real bobcat set to draw him in, as he's not likely to walk close enough for a blind set using that turd as an attractor.

Re: Setting a Bobcat Toilet [Re: 1Simplemann] #8559272
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Didn’t see where he said one turd. He did say toilet which means multiple piles, or at least that’s what I call a toilet. Where did you read one turd?

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