Cat trappers vs coyote trappers

[17HMR]

I too like multi-species lines as you dont know what going to be next, cats are fun for the first few, but I always come back to the coyote.

[Freak( Jim V.)]

Cats , cats , cats , I am still deep in the throes of the spotted fever. LMAO But cats are much harder to rack up big numbers of than are coyotes. Coyotes are just dumb coyotes , unless you wanna go after to the very last few. Cats are finciky , dont work a set hard if at all most times , dont respond like they are supposed to half the time and the list goes on. Cats are a much bigger challenge to me.And have been for awhile now.
Plus making them sets for them is just so much fun , feel like a artist or something sometimes getting it just right. Kind of a ritualistic thing for me.
Coyotes are pull up , drop the tailgate , punch a few sets in and go. Cats are walking in looking for just the right spot to block em up , making the set and then coming back and seeing where he snubbed you. Gotta love a critter like that. A coyote comes back repeatedly , a cat usually seems to snub you after one miss , unless you darmatically change things or add a new set.
This felt soooooo good , fixing one of my mistakes

With a coyote it would have been uh cool ,ok wheres the next one.

[bill1306 (Phil)]

I personally like to catch cats. I enjoy skinning and putting up the cats after I catch them. Coyotes on the other hand are a pain to skin and flesh, also they stink. Around here most of the coyotes have the mange and the mess up good cat sets and really work over my traps. The coyotes I trapped in NM last year were a lot different than they are around here. Easier to skin and fleshed, they were like a bobcats, quick and easy. I enjoyed trapping coyotes down there. The one good thing about coyotes, they are more dependable to return to a set location making them a lot easier to catch. The cats might come by the set every 4 or 5 days and if their belly is full or you have a grinner in the trap, well you have to wait another 4 or 5 days for another chance to catch the cat.

[bobwendt]

I know when my coyotes went from $100 to $9 they no longer smelled like money, just chitty coyotes.

[trappnman]

I hear cats are easy- don't have to cover traps, can put a fence around them to make them step on a pan the size of a grapefruit, dazzled by bright lights and geegaws (is that even a word?), heck they go into cages like a tabby to a kennel..... whats next, a litter box set....?

heck, I always heard cat trappers were guys that couldn't trap yotes...

[td]

Cats in numbers vs. coyotes in numbers is only more of a challenge because there generally aren't near as many cats. Cats are dumber than a rock. Spotted, high dollar possum w/less reproductive capacity and survival. Geez Jim, the blood on Old Three Toes stub hasn't even dried. lol

Try the baited coni bucket. They don't pull out of those. Don't catch many coyotes in those though---- advantage coyote. Stupid cats are total suckers for them, just like the old grinner. lol

Seriously, I like trapping both. Economics are about the same here. Most years, three to four coyotes at $25 -30 equals one cat at $85-100. Due to numbers, it's easier to catch the three or four coyotes. It is nice though to pop that high dollar type cat once in a while.

[romans117]

whats next, a litter box set....?

There is a guy here in Kansas that uses an actual litter box in a cage trap and catches them routinely. One of those small litter boxes. No joke. Claims to catch 30 a year.

[NEPISIGUIT]

Around here coyotes have become so well educated to trappers who do not have the experience that many of you have that they hold a stigma. To take them in numbers is almost impossible.Not all but many have met with pinched toes, sprung or dug up traps. Nothing to do with money just the desire to do it right. For cats we have a quota system and it is very small here. In some parts of our province lots of cats and i have not heard anyone say they are hard to take unless weather conditions limit their movement.

[bobwendt]

coyotes have alwayd been way waaaay more fun. just not worth anything, relative. and that dampens the fun real fast.