Subject: Trapping Raccoons
Date: May 11 09:34:11 1999
From: Michael Dossett - phainopepla at yahoo.com


Dry dog food also works well.

Michael Dossett
Bothell
Phainopepla at yahoo.com

--- Caroline Feiss <cfeiss at halcyon.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> We have had years of experience trapping raccoons in
> a live trap as we had a
> neighbor who thought raccoons were cute and left
> tidbits for them at night.
> DO NOT use cat food. You will trap cats. While
> that may be useful, it
> wrecks havoc with neighborhood relationships and the
> cats wail something
> terrible all night until you let them out. Use
> peanut butter on toast.
> Toast holds up better than bread. Cats pay no
> attention to peanut butter.
> We did have a mystery once when all the peanut
> butter disappeared from the
> top of the slice of toast yet the trap was not
> sprung. We watched and, by
> golly, a chickadee flew in, ate some peanut butter
> and flew out again. It
> kept that up until the peanut butter was gone.
> Clever critter.
>
> Caroline Feiss
> Seattle
>
>

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