rojo wrote:
How hard can it be for me to figure out to make the trap active?
About 2 minute with a youtube video. You probably wasted more time typing the question than it would have taken to find the answer yourself. Also lots of advice about handling raccoons, skunks, etc, can be found.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQcqgdEfsyQanxiously waiting to see what was in the cage this morn...
Ok here is the update.
1) I didn't set the trap on Sunday as I was too busy watching NFL football but I believe some sort of animal ate the sugar wafers in the traps over the weekend.
2) The pest control guy came by when I was out today (but didn't tell me) and set the traps with more sugar wafers.
3) I realized he had come by as when the french bulldog went out to go to the bathroom, she started to bark at the squirrel in the trap. Yes, my $375 bucks has caught another squirrel.
4) I freed the squirrel myself and then also reset the trap after watching the video a few posts above. I decided to put dog food in the trap.
5) I"ll update you in the morning.
rojo wrote:
Ok here is the update.
1) I didn't set the trap on Sunday as I was too busy watching NFL football but I believe some sort of animal ate the sugar wafers in the traps over the weekend.
2) The pest control guy came by when I was out today (but didn't tell me) and set the traps with more sugar wafers.
3) I realized he had come by as when the french bulldog went out to go to the bathroom, she started to bark at the squirrel in the trap. Yes, my $375 bucks has caught another squirrel.
4) I freed the squirrel myself and then also reset the trap after watching the video a few posts above. I decided to put dog food in the trap.
5) I"ll update you in the morning.
Is this mystery animal still there making noises Rojo?
Judging from the rodents you attract with this website, consider yourself lucky you haven't "caught" something more insidious than a squirrel in that 375 dollar trap of yours.
Crikey, someone's being a drama queen.
Has the screaming and growling beneath your porch ceased? I think jamin has finally found, rescued and carried off his life's love. He's been conspicuously absent from the board lately. I sense love in the ether.
rojo wrote:
Ok here is the update.
1) I didn't set the trap on Sunday as I was too busy watching NFL football but I believe some sort of animal ate the sugar wafers in the traps over the weekend.
2) The pest control guy came by when I was out today (but didn't tell me) and set the traps with more sugar wafers.
3) I realized he had come by as when the french bulldog went out to go to the bathroom, she started to bark at the squirrel in the trap. Yes, my $375 bucks has caught another squirrel.
4) I freed the squirrel myself and then also reset the trap after watching the video a few posts above. I decided to put dog food in the trap.
5) I"ll update you in the morning.
Buy yourself a .22 cal pellet gun (at least 900 fps using 25 grain pellets), set yourself up in a lawn chair and start on a 12 pack. Or better yet, fly me out wherever you are and I'll take care of the problem for you in a couple days. Likely cost you much less $.
OLD SMTC SOB wrote:
rojo wrote:
Ok here is the update.
1) I didn't set the trap on Sunday as I was too busy watching NFL football but I believe some sort of animal ate the sugar wafers in the traps over the weekend.
2) The pest control guy came by when I was out today (but didn't tell me) and set the traps with more sugar wafers.
3) I realized he had come by as when the french bulldog went out to go to the bathroom, she started to bark at the squirrel in the trap. Yes, my $375 bucks has caught another squirrel.
4) I freed the squirrel myself and then also reset the trap after watching the video a few posts above. I decided to put dog food in the trap.
5) I"ll update you in the morning.
Buy yourself a .22 cal pellet gun (at least 900 fps using 25 grain pellets), set yourself up in a lawn chair and start on a 12 pack. Or better yet, fly me out wherever you are and I'll take care of the problem for you in a couple days. Likely cost you much less $.
Terrible advice. That is not nearly enough power to reliably kill raccoons. You are much more likely to only wound one with that little power.
My 22 cal break barrel shoots at 850 fps and I've had squirrels survive the first shot and been forced to run around under the tree to try to get a second shot. I know for a fact the first shot hit because they had two pellets in them. Raccoons are far larger than a squirrel, do you really want to only wound 75% of the animals and have them sprint away?
There are PCP pellet rifles in larger calibers that are appropriately powerful, 900fps with 25 grain pellets is not enough.
Drainthefecesswamp wrote:
OLD SMTC SOB wrote:
Buy yourself a .22 cal pellet gun (at least 900 fps using 25 grain pellets), set yourself up in a lawn chair and start on a 12 pack. Or better yet, fly me out wherever you are and I'll take care of the problem for you in a couple days. Likely cost you much less $.
Terrible advice. That is not nearly enough power to reliably kill raccoons. You are much more likely to only wound one with that little power.
My 22 cal break barrel shoots at 850 fps and I've had squirrels survive the first shot and been forced to run around under the tree to try to get a second shot. I know for a fact the first shot hit because they had two pellets in them. Raccoons are far larger than a squirrel, do you really want to only wound 75% of the animals and have them sprint away?
There are PCP pellet rifles in larger calibers that are appropriately powerful, 900fps with 25 grain pellets is not enough.
You must be a lousy shot. The raccoons and ground hogs I put down at 15 to 20 yards with no problem. 900 FPS is fine, as loge as you know how to shoot, and where. One shot. And I don't miss.
OLD SMTC SOB wrote:
Drainthefecesswamp wrote:
Terrible advice. That is not nearly enough power to reliably kill raccoons. You are much more likely to only wound one with that little power.
My 22 cal break barrel shoots at 850 fps and I've had squirrels survive the first shot and been forced to run around under the tree to try to get a second shot. I know for a fact the first shot hit because they had two pellets in them. Raccoons are far larger than a squirrel, do you really want to only wound 75% of the animals and have them sprint away?
There are PCP pellet rifles in larger calibers that are appropriately powerful, 900fps with 25 grain pellets is not enough.
You must be a lousy shot. The raccoons and ground hogs I put down at 15 to 20 yards with no problem. 900 FPS is fine, as loge as you know how to shoot, and where. One shot. And I don't miss.
One could certainly get a pneumatic, but way to expensive. And loud.
OLD SMTC SOB wrote:
rojo wrote:
Ok here is the update.
1) I didn't set the trap on Sunday as I was too busy watching NFL football but I believe some sort of animal ate the sugar wafers in the traps over the weekend.
2) The pest control guy came by when I was out today (but didn't tell me) and set the traps with more sugar wafers.
3) I realized he had come by as when the french bulldog went out to go to the bathroom, she started to bark at the squirrel in the trap. Yes, my $375 bucks has caught another squirrel.
4) I freed the squirrel myself and then also reset the trap after watching the video a few posts above. I decided to put dog food in the trap.
5) I"ll update you in the morning.
Buy yourself a .22 cal pellet gun (at least 900 fps using 25 grain pellets), set yourself up in a lawn chair and start on a 12 pack. Or better yet, fly me out wherever you are and I'll take care of the problem for you in a couple days. Likely cost you much less $.
You can find a murderer on just about every street corner in Balto, he don't need you amateurs. 309 homicides in 2018, a handful to start the year. A couple of malt 40s and a bag of weed (and those sugar wafers) and he'll sit on the porch for a week shooting everything that moves (although that may lead to another problem).
No update from rojo today. Does someone want to swing by his house and make sure he hasn't gotten himself caught in the trap?
I'm worried about Bunny the dog! What if she goes into the trap to get the dog food? :(
wineturtle wrote:
wejo is a NYer now
rojo is in Maryland
And hojo was nationwide and had 31 flavors.
Wejo, can you please just provide an update via the front page everyday?
Digging up this thread for status every day is a drag.
Thanks
I meant Rojo...or Wejo if knows the status.
He doesn’t want to admit he spent 375 bucks to catch 4 squirrels and a groundhog.
I’ve set traps myself numerous times in the past to catch mice, raccoons and groundhogs . I even transported the ground hog over a local bridge to let it go. It didmt take anything more than common sense and a driving desire not to waste my hard earned money.
Animal trapper wrote:
It didmt take anything more than common sense and a driving desire not to waste my hard earned money.
That you have hard earned money is the difference.
this is possibly the QOTM, at a minimum. Thanks pope, made my day.
PopeFrancis wrote:
You can find a murderer on just about every street corner in Balto, he don't need you amateurs. 309 homicides in 2018, a handful to start the year. A couple of malt 40s and a bag of weed (and those sugar wafers) and he'll sit on the porch for a week shooting everything that moves (although that may lead to another problem).