I bought two Kania traps last year and tried a whole range of baits, as did aI put peanut butter spread on a piece of bread inside my Have-A-Heart traps
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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