Try having six huge pecan trees around your house-talk about a raccoon magnet! I usually dispatch at least 8-10 a year during harvest time. One of my neighbor’s mother is a retired schoolteacher who considers them quite a delicacy and happily takes them off my hands after they meet my Beretta shotgun or the 22. Says she grew up eating them and still loves them cooked with sweet potatoes (shudder)(must be an AA thing, I guess...)
So last November she shows up with one of those live-catch traps-and 2 big boxes of honeybuns. Says her son had been catching lots of them using half a honeybun as bait.
Well, I’ve gone thru 4 boxes of honeybuns now(the rain does a number on ‘em) without catching one single raccoon.
We’re not seeing ANY as roadkill either and I live in the boonies where they are-or were-quite common.
Very strange.
>> I’ve gone thru 4 boxes of honeybuns now... without catching one single raccoon.
I think you’re supposed to put the honeybuns in the trap for the coons. It doesn’t do any good if *you* eat them.
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I know what you mean about the pecans... a couple of coons got lead poisoning a week ago, when I caught ‘em in a pecan tree at 3AM throwing stuff down onto our metal roof. You wouldn’t believe the racket.
They don’t normally bug me, I just don’t want them up by the house. Go play somewhere else.
Here in Wisconsin we have our own kind of magnets for dispatching raccoons. They're called public highways. I don't know what the annual toll of crushed raccoons amounts to, but it must be 100,000 or so from the carcasses of dead raccoons I see every time I drive on a highway near a wooded area. And there's lots of those kinds of areas where I live. I've seen what looks like whole raccoon families dead from motor vehicles.
Have you seen this method (Pepsi & fly bait) of killing raccoons? It sounds extreme and successful.
We hate the ‘coons by our house and would love to find a way to off them without hurting one feral cat who depends on us for food. We’ve thought about this Pepsi concoction but aren’t positive it wouldn’t hurt the cat, too — even though it says cats won’t go near it.
Try a half inch slice of corn on the cob with a string tied to it so that the corn is suspended inside the cage near the back. Tie the other end to the door trip lever.
Dogs and cats are not interested in the corn. Often the coon will not step on the treadle but will yank the corn.
Well, I’ve gone thru 4 boxes of honeybuns now(the rain does a number on ‘em) without catching one single raccoon.
Hint: You’re supposed to put the honeybuns in the trap.