Raccoons

[rjthehunter]

If you do 1 DP, do 3. Once 1 is in the trap, there's usually more nearby. I've seen plenty of pairs and occasionally triples caught together!

I wouldn't use anything sticky personally. No reason to make a mess of the DP right away. Dog food in town would likely work really well. Throw a golfball on top if the mice keep eating all the dogfood.

 

[Steiny77]

It's a full time war around here with those varmints.
Caught 14 in the yard this spring in dog proofs and introduced them to Jesus.

 

[buckbull]

My dad would dispatch with a hickory stick.

 

[coleslaw]

 

[NEWHunter]

Make sure you get a good anchor on that DP. If it's not anchored down well you'll see your traps disappear real fast.

I bought the 2 foot rebar rods on the shelf next to the DPs. They held well. I don’t have any experience, but it didn’t seem like a coon would be able dislodge that stake.

 

[Pucky Freak]

I’ve lived trapped them successfully w/ a brushed-in cage using peanut butter & peppermint extract. Keeps possums, cats, and skunks from going in the trap.

 

[homestead]

I know you're in city limits, but you might consider using 22 cb shorts in a rifle. When I was a teen trapping, I'd use them behind a couple homes I trapped around and never had a problem with noise.

 

[Sheltowee]

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Dammit, you beat me to it!

 

[O C Hunter]

For cage traps, use hamburger grease on a piece of bread for bait.

 

[JDH]

We have the same rules regarding "humanely euthanizing" raccoons so I called my state's conservation officer once about what to do and they said if I lived in city limits one acceptable method was to drown them if I had a container big enough to drop the whole trap into. Luckily I don't live in the city so I never had to go that route.

I do have close neighbors however so I ended up buying subsonic .22 rounds.