[NAFEX] Pesky Tree Rats
Lucky Pittman
lucky.pittman at murraystate.edu
Tue Apr 5 13:35:56 EDT 2005
At 08:04 PM 4/4/2005, you wrote:
>CHARLIE,
>A #1 CONNIBEAR TRAP IS USED MAINLY TO CATCH MUSKRATS AND MINK. . THE
>ANIMAL PASSES THROUGH, OR CAN BE BAITED. WHEN THE TRAP IS SPRUNG IT BREAKS
>THE ANIMAL'S NECK. THESE ARE EFFECTIVE FOR SQUIRREL RUNWAYS .
My dad used to use big Conibear traps for beaver. Very effective, and,
I'd say pretty humane - if that's a concern for you.
Don't know that I could identify a squirrel 'runway', but one strategy
I've seen recommended, but never tried was to fasten two boards together at
right angles, and affix to the tree, with one 'leg' of this "L"-shaped
apparatus sticking out 3 ft or so from the tree trunk, with a big Victor
type rat trap fastened out at the end. A squirrel evidently can't resist
running down the tree(in this case, a big tree, like the oaks/maples in
your yard or adjacent woods) and out to the end of the plank, to see what's
out there. A baited trap would catch them, but I suppose if you had some
way of positioning the Conibear so that Brer Bushytail had to pass through
it in order to get to the bait out at the far end of the plank, you'd be
assured of eliminating him.
Lucky Pittman
USDA Cold Zone 6
AHS Heat Zone 7
Hopkinsville, KY
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