Havahart traps

[arjay]

Porcupines?

 

[Kinman]

Round here if you have a gnawing problem it is usually attributed to beavers or porcupines. I get teased about being soft hearted by my buddies for using a hav-a-hart trap to capture the non-native squirrels that my neighbors feed. I then put the trap in the car and drive them at least 3 miles away to a semi-wild treed area for release...I don't know if they have a desire to return to the area but usually after I've trapped three or four I won't see any in my yard for months, then they eventually re-populate and begin planting peanuts in my yard.

 

[FishingPilot]

these traps make it easier to shoot them the next morning. I don't have to sit on the deck all night waiting for them to walk up.

 

[nawilson]

these traps make it easier to shoot them the next morning. I don't have to sit on the deck all night waiting for them to walk up.

A few years back, I used a live trap to catch a squirrel that had been getting into my attic. My plan was to shoot him with a 22 pistol and dump the body in the woods. Well, when I walked up to him, he was bloody from trying to escape and looked at me in what I can only describe as a defiant way. He looked like he wanted to fight. I could respect that. Instead of shooting him, I drove about five miles out and across a river and set him free in a wooded area.

 

[L Pete]

these traps make it easier to shoot them the next morning. I don't have to sit on the deck all night waiting for them to walk up.

You don't have your wife sit out there all night?....I would......

 

[reddogge]

My favorite trapping story was I caught a squirrel and took him 5 miles across the reservoir and was preparing to let him go. When I opened the gate he ran into the road and almost was run over by a school bus full of little kids. They all screamed. I had to laugh.

Another story. I attended a party where a couple lived across this reservoir about the spot I released my trapped animals. After comparing notes the man said he trapped groundhogs and raccoons also and took them back across the reservoir to my side and let them go. Apparantly we were trading animals for years.

 

[Squarebutt]

Your good till you catch a skunk!
Ask me how I know...

I caught one in a coon-size Havahart trap, and he had just enough headroom to fire one blast before I could get the blanket over him. He got a ride to a large state park a few miles away.

 

[Ivan the Butcher]

In Ohio it illegal to relocate pest animals, they must be destroyed. Aside from the aspect of inflicting pest on others, you transfer disease also. During the blizzard of 1978 (big storm by local standards, just a Spring day in Montana)feeding city squirrels became a fad. They ate their way into everybody's attic and chewed on wires-phone or electric! So I live trapped about 15, and transported them to the woods on a farm that we hunted. The little welfare rodents just went down the road and hung around a farmers porch begging handouts! He just shot them and had them for dinner! Ivan

 

[Texas40]

Love my haveaheart trap. I live in a residential area not too many pests aka possums raccoons etc. but for trapping and relocating feral cats they are da bomb. I have relocated about 15 from our neighborhood. Feral cat population is now pretty much nil. Between me and the fact that the lil old "catlady" who used to put food out for um has been relocated to a assisted living home has drastically reduced the unwanted little fur balls in the hood.

 

[FishingPilot]

Love my haveaheart trap. I live in a residential area not too many pests aka possums raccoons etc. but for trapping and relocating feral cats they are da bomb. I have relocated about 15 from our neighborhood. Feral cat population is now pretty much nil. Between me and the fact that the lil old "catlady" who used to put food out for um has been relocated to a assisted living home has drastically reduced the unwanted little fur balls in the hood.

YES. YES. YES. I have relocated quite a few cats over the years. About 20 years ago we had a little bobtail cat that was hanging around - mean little S-O-B. Trapped it and took it about 4-5 miles away to a farm down a dirt road. That thing made it back to the house after a few days. The wife felt sorry for it and we had that cat for a few more years before we moved.

 

[Shooter6br]

Three woodchucks last year with apples. I put the trap about 5 yrd from hole. Two the same day

 

[woodsltc]

In Ohio it illegal to relocate pest animals,

Uh.....don't ask, don't tell !!

Don

 

[klondike]

My trap works for me. The only problem is that I loan it out and forget who has it - twice.

 

[RonJ]

Round here if you have a gnawing problem it is usually attributed to beavers or porcupines. I get teased about being soft hearted by my buddies for using a hav-a-hart trap to capture the non-native squirrels that my neighbors feed. I then put the trap in the car and drive them at least 3 miles away to a semi-wild treed area for release...I don't know if they have a desire to return to the area but usually after I've trapped three or four I won't see any in my yard for months, then they eventually re-populate and begin planting peanuts in my yard.

Have never seen either critter around here. No water for beavers.