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Raccoon in an attic-NO MORE!
2/25/2012 10:30:50 PM
Neighbor was complaining about "squirrels" in her attic at 0500 in the morning. Sounded fishy to me so I walked the perimeter of her house. One eave vent had definite signs of animal prints on the paint and a few louvers had been pushed apart.
Got her approval to set a 330 Conibear trap over the pushed-apart opening in the afternoon. Double wired it in place to make sure. This set of a Conibear uses the lure of outside plus the animals knowledge it had to force its way out. Checked it the next morning, nothing but this morning, the trap was gone, sucked inside the attic.
I took the lower louver off and managed to extricate the raccoon. Perfect neck snap and humane kill. I then went up into the attic to fix the problem with hardware cloth and 2" fence staples
. There were 30+ piles of raccoon dung ALL OVER the attic. All look like the animal had been eating dog food. Yes, she free-choice feeds her dog. And this was a yearling female, getting ready to nest.
I'm no stranger to raccoons in the attic, I went armed with my Para-Ord P14 and shotshells. I've used this pistol-ammo combination to kill raccoons in close quarters without worry about collateral damage. 1/3 ounce of #9 is sufficient with multiple rounds. I've used up to 9 to kill but then again, I'm not willing to mess with one in close quarters.
Got her approval to set a 330 Conibear trap over the pushed-apart opening in the afternoon. Double wired it in place to make sure. This set of a Conibear uses the lure of outside plus the animals knowledge it had to force its way out. Checked it the next morning, nothing but this morning, the trap was gone, sucked inside the attic.
I took the lower louver off and managed to extricate the raccoon. Perfect neck snap and humane kill. I then went up into the attic to fix the problem with hardware cloth and 2" fence staples
. There were 30+ piles of raccoon dung ALL OVER the attic. All look like the animal had been eating dog food. Yes, she free-choice feeds her dog. And this was a yearling female, getting ready to nest.I'm no stranger to raccoons in the attic, I went armed with my Para-Ord P14 and shotshells. I've used this pistol-ammo combination to kill raccoons in close quarters without worry about collateral damage. 1/3 ounce of #9 is sufficient with multiple rounds. I've used up to 9 to kill but then again, I'm not willing to mess with one in close quarters.
2/26/2012 12:21:58 AM
Good deal helping your neighbor out like that!!!
2/27/2012 3:49:41 AM
Great job Keith
That 330 is a great coon trap.
I saw a trap at Fleet Farm the other day that made me sad to be a trapper. They marketed it as a leg hold trap that was dog proof and it was about the most inhumane trap I have ever seen. It is made to have a coon stick their front paw into the trap to spring it and the spring is extremely storng. It will break the coon's leg and if it doesn't it will destroy it so it can't be released for any reason. Maybe I am getting soft in my old age, but I am either a kill trapper or a snare trapper. No more legholds for me.
That 330 is a great coon trap.
I saw a trap at Fleet Farm the other day that made me sad to be a trapper. They marketed it as a leg hold trap that was dog proof and it was about the most inhumane trap I have ever seen. It is made to have a coon stick their front paw into the trap to spring it and the spring is extremely storng. It will break the coon's leg and if it doesn't it will destroy it so it can't be released for any reason. Maybe I am getting soft in my old age, but I am either a kill trapper or a snare trapper. No more legholds for me.
