Sure; most small animals just want to run away. I do think putting a cover over the trap before releasing is a worthy precaution with some animals.
I have always done humane trapping, mostly feral cats in the last few years; but with such as raccoons it is tempting to do otherwise; they are truly destructive and they reproduce prolifically like illegal aliens!
I have always done humane trapping, mostly feral cats in the last few years; but with such as raccoons it is tempting to do otherwise; they are truly destructive and they reproduce prolifically like illegal aliens!
Years ago my neighbor across the road, about 1/4 mile from me, tore his milk barn down. The rats ran to hide under my house. They ate the flexible duct work out and one got in the house. My husband shot it, in the house. We got the duct work replaced with the hard shell type and exterminated the rats.
Now my daughter and SIL have goats. Rats were going after the goat food and killed several of her baby chicks. They spent several evenings, after dark, outside shooting rats. The rats decided to move to safer quarters and started digging dens near my big dog fence. The old dogs killed some, but I bought a smaller live trap. They weren’t relocated. They were shot in the trap. Feral cats got some of them. I also tossed some bricks of poison under the house to get the rest.
I don’t tolerate rats.