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....
Possums I have no trouble with. Even though I think they look like giant rats, I can take them out to no man’s land and they are docile. I usually have to shake the cage to get them out. Squirrels generally kill themselves before I can take them anywhere. The reason I don’t kill the larger coons is they seem better behaved and I hate digging graves.