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  • From: Bass S <bassgarden@gmail.com>
  • To: nafex mailing list at ibiblio <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [nafex] Squirrels and Kania traps
  • Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2013 00:59:12 -0400

I just trapped a skunk last night with kania trap. I've caught squirrels
with it successfully but I don't believe I have the red ones.

On Tuesday, August 6, 2013, wrote:

> I bought two Kania traps last year and tried a whole range of baits, as
> did a neighbour to
> whom I lent one of them. Neither one of us caught a single squirrel. I
> contacted Kania, who
> suggested that our Eastern Red squirrels are too small to trigger the
> traps, which work much
> better with the larger Gray squirrels. Our squirrels may be smaller, but
> they sure are efficient
> at stealing fruit. Kania suggests that we wrap the trigger wire with
> grass, to make it bulkier,
> so that the smaller squirrels can't simply step through it. In addition
> they want me to file the
> latch wire to make "a hair trigger" - this I am more reluctant to do, as I
> am unsure whether I
> will get it right, and don't want to over-do it. Anybody got any
> experience with smaller
> squirrels and Kania traps??
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