The young ones are the ones I have to shoot in the cage. They are vicious. The older ones seem to relax and enjoy the ride out to uninhabited country. I suspect they have taken the ride before.
The only animal I let out alive from the trap at first was a young possum...I drove 10 miles away and animals have territories they try to return to....No coon got out alive. I let ground hogs out but my neighbor has a problem with them, they can undermind a barn wall with their burrows and when I told him I let them go, he said to call him and he would dispatch them...I did and he did....