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Post by musher on Sept 14, 2005 15:21:15 GMT -6
In the same vein as the squeeker thread, who has ever tried hooking up a small xmas tree flashing light bulb to a 6 volt battery in order to attract cats?
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Post by bobwendt on Sept 14, 2005 15:34:50 GMT -6
me, before it was fashionable. it works but setting on a track works just as good. same deal on squeekers.
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Post by Stef on Sept 14, 2005 18:44:24 GMT -6
Light... Could it be legal in Québec musher?
Stef
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Post by gunny on Sept 14, 2005 21:16:08 GMT -6
xmas tree lights use way too much electricity causing very short battery life, even shorter in cold weather. I use a diffused single chip blinking led, will run for a very long time on 2AA batteries. The dimmer they blink the more effective they are.
Stef, I'll make you a trade blinkers for Cacthottier.
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Post by mostinterestingmanintheworld on Sept 14, 2005 21:24:20 GMT -6
Are you going to make any for sale this year Gunny?
Joel
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Post by FWS on Sept 14, 2005 21:45:01 GMT -6
I make those too Joel, it's easy to make your own. All you need are blinking LED's, green, yellow or red, a battery holder for 2 AA batteries, a soldering iron and electrical tape. If you buy components online you can make em' for under $1 each.
And the batteries last forever, I left one blinking last December and it's still blinking.
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Post by gunny on Sept 14, 2005 21:51:17 GMT -6
Joel, I'll always have some for you. PM me your address and I'll send them out N/C. My thanks for taking care of the cats at the Klamath Falls sale.
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Post by jimh on Sept 14, 2005 21:53:12 GMT -6
Being new at trapping and not owning any footholds I was determined to catch a bobcat with conibears. Not having much luck I decided to try every single trick I had read about on the internet. I started by creating a cubby on a horizontal log about five feet off the ground to eliminate the possability of catching a hikers dog. The cubby was constructed by cutting open a wire tomatoe cage and nailing it to the log and wiring fir boughs all over it to form a cubby. For bait I used a grouse carcass and a chunk of beaver hanging in the middle and a 280mag guarding each end. Along with the bait I hung a inexpensive childs necklace with a little xmas tree with a small flashing red light in it. I wired an electronic squeaker under the log and hung a grouse wing and little silver tinfoil tart tin from a nearby tree fairly high off the ground. As if that wasn't enough I sprinkled some bobcat urine near the one end of the log and put a bit of bobcat lure on a feather under the log. Talk about overkill. LOL. The day after next I went back to check it and the critter had actually managed to get to my wing and tart tin and rip them down and then some how managed to pull up the one corner of the wire cubby frame and remove the bait and necklace. The little flashing xmas tree was nothing but chewed up pieces laying on the ground. Boy did I feel stupid. He sure went through alot of trouble to avoid those traps. Maybe this year. LOL. Jim
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Post by bobwendt on Sept 15, 2005 6:04:56 GMT -6
sounds like a bear or an alian. cats aren`t trap shy.
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Post by jimh on Sept 15, 2005 7:53:21 GMT -6
Wondered about maybe a bear or cougar but not pulled apart as much as I thought a bear might do. There was a hole going down under a moss covered log on the ground that I hadn't noticed before and some of the grouse seemed to be partially buried there. I made the opening a bit larger to accomidate one of the 280s and threw a little flasher in there and left the squeaker turned on. The next day the trap had been tripped and there were a couple of hairs in it that looked as if they may have come from the tail of a marten. Didn.t think the hair was coarse enough to be bear but I may have been wrong. I did end up taking a couple of nice martens on the 280 log cubby when I remade it. Jim
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Post by mostinterestingmanintheworld on Sept 15, 2005 10:26:03 GMT -6
Packrat or marten my guess
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Post by mmwb (Andrew Parker) on Sept 15, 2005 16:43:57 GMT -6
Seems to me there was a discussion a year or so ago on this or another forum about colors for cats. Is anyone aware that they are more sensitive to any one particular color over another?
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Post by musher on Sept 15, 2005 18:55:55 GMT -6
Stef: Yep. It isn't referred to in any law. Squeekers are illegal though.
Regarding colours: In the past someone, who knows what they are talking about (!!!!), said something about mustard yellow. They weren't talking about lights though.
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Post by SteveCraig on Sept 15, 2005 19:00:48 GMT -6
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