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Post by bill1306 (Phil) on Apr 28, 2008 17:14:40 GMT -6
It must not work around where you trap. Around here, the boxes are my go to set for coons. Fast and very deadly. They take lots of prisoners, work in all kinds of weather conditions.........they wack and stack, and then I skin, flesh, stretch and ship.
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Post by Cliffdweller on Apr 28, 2008 18:45:02 GMT -6
Bill1306,
You mentioned using live cage traps for cats? If you don't mind telling what size are they and how do you set them up?
Why are you using cage traps in KS?
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Post by bill1306 (Phil) on Apr 29, 2008 16:10:18 GMT -6
Live traps allow me access to land where the pheasant and quail hunters are still hunting and they don't want me to set any foot hold traps. Most of the bird hunters use dogs while they are hunting. Also around houses where they have kids, dogs and cats. I do keep cats during the legal season to collect urine and the live traps don't do any harm to the cats that I keep, even when they get caught during really cold weather. I don't have to worry about any frozen feet. The also allow me to release females and young cats without any problems. Last but not least, cage traps are a bigger challenge to catch cats in than a foot hold traps. In my opinion the cage traps are harder to set correctly and catch cats in than body grip or foot holds traps. My traps are 36"L x 22"H x 15"W.
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Post by Cliffdweller on Apr 29, 2008 19:49:18 GMT -6
Thanks Bill1306. I thought it was odd that you would set a cage trap for bobcats and then set baited conibears around it. But I can see doing that if you are releasing some animals or keeping them for urine collection.
I've caught a few cats in cages but I find they sometimes will just look at it from a couple of feet away and move on but they will do that with a flagged or baited leghold set too at times. I'm welding up some double door walk through cages to try next year.
Have you found any particular cage trap methods that you think work better for cats in KS ? In particular how you bait, lure or flag your sets?
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Post by dogpaw on Apr 30, 2008 10:01:35 GMT -6
Both buckets and boxes work well here in my country figured they would work anywhere, guess not. The boxes have hardware cloth on one end and only have a bottom on half the box the front half has no bottom. The buckets are just round white sheetrock buckets with two notches for the trap place a large rock in the bucket on top of the bait. I don,t use alot of these because of the amount of dog hunters we have but they seem to catch ok when used.
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