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thendrix 
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Location: Fairmount GA
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 Posted: 16 Jul 2023 at 8:24am |
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Have a heart trap, 3 small chocolate donuts, .22
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Tbone95
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Posted: 16 Jul 2023 at 8:19am |
In the barn, cats we don’t want to harm, we just use marshmallows and a live trap. Live trap is kind of a misnomer because they don’t get out alive! But cats do! Anyway, have caught a lot of them and cleaned up the problem. Now, for the rats! 
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steve(ill)
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Posted: 16 Jul 2023 at 8:11am |
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Son uses those Dog Proof traps that Dave shows above... BUTT he caught a cat in it one night... Now the set a soup can over the trap so cats cant get in, but coons will grab the can and lift off..... Personally i use a game camera, then backup with a 22..... but this is real close to the house and small area............... they LOVE cat food.
Edited by steve(ill) - 16 Jul 2023 at 8:13am
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Like them all, but love the "B"s.
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plummerscarin
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Posted: 16 Jul 2023 at 7:26am |
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BIL swears by Fruit Loops and marshmallows
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DiyDave
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Posted: 16 Jul 2023 at 5:04am |
Duke's dog proof coon traps. Stinky wet cat food or sardines, then push a big marshmallow on top of the stinky stuff. Also, some sardine oil or cat food smeared on fence posts, leading toward the traps...
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Codger
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Posted: 16 Jul 2023 at 4:33am |
Golden Malrin and either cola, or grape soda mixed together. Ensure only the raccoons have access to the bait as they are highly attracted to it and won't get very far after eating. If you mix two cups of the bait and a two litre bottle of soda you will bag them all in short order.
Either burn the carcasses or dispose of them completely as anything that would consume the remains will either perish also, or be very sick afterward.
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A career built on repairing and improving engineering design deficiencies, shortcomings, and failures over 50 years now.
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Dirt Farmer
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Posted: 16 Jul 2023 at 1:09am |
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Daughter and I been trying to protect her FFA sweetcorn patches from raccoons. This year we welded small pieces of flat steel 1 inch by 3 inches to bottom of trap then drill a small hole to put in and weld a ring shank nail. Make em fight for the feast. We are currently pushing a marshmallow and a small orange slice over the nail for bait held up enough as to not attract ants. When setting traps we also push in an electric fence post through trap to keep them from getting rolled. Working fairly well but wondered if anyone else had any better bait ideas they would share. I know electic fence works for some but her patches are scattered along field roads 3 rows wide and quarter mile long with 7 different planting dates and 7 sites. Guess where Im spending the rest of my summer starting next week.
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