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For those with experience with the Squirrelinator trap
Posted on 4/13/24 at 1:30 pm
Posted on 4/13/24 at 1:30 pm
I've always used a regular spring loaded cage type live trap to trap squirrels. I've trapped a bunch of them over the years, but now we have a skunk in the area. I trapped it once last year and was fortunate enough to be able to release it without it spraying. I've been skittish on setting the trap out since then because I don't think my luck will hold much longer.
I'm either going to buy a spray proof trap or the Squirrelinator. I see that the Squirrelinator has a shorter opening than a normal live trap. For those who have it, does it look like a grown skunk can get into that trap easily? Otherwise, I really like that it is a repeating trap. I just don't want to spend that $70-80 if it can catch a skunk as easily as a regular live trap.
Bonus:
Over the years of using the regular live traps I have caught untold squirrels, the same possum three different times in four nights, two wrens, a sparrow, a cardinal, two skunks, a rabbit, and a field rat.
I'm either going to buy a spray proof trap or the Squirrelinator. I see that the Squirrelinator has a shorter opening than a normal live trap. For those who have it, does it look like a grown skunk can get into that trap easily? Otherwise, I really like that it is a repeating trap. I just don't want to spend that $70-80 if it can catch a skunk as easily as a regular live trap.
Bonus:
Over the years of using the regular live traps I have caught untold squirrels, the same possum three different times in four nights, two wrens, a sparrow, a cardinal, two skunks, a rabbit, and a field rat.
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Posted on 4/14/24 at 6:50 am to LegendInMyMind
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For those who have it, does it look like a grown skunk can get into that trap easily?
I would think not. I’ve only ever had squirrels in mine. But I’ve also never seen skunks around my property.
Posted on 4/14/24 at 7:18 am to LegendInMyMind
What’s your secret for the live box traps and squirrels?
Posted on 4/14/24 at 12:14 pm to turkish
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What’s your secret for the live box traps and squirrels?
I use i guess what you'd call a medium sized wire live trap that opens from both ends. It has the platform rocker trigger in the middle. I just bait with pecans, a couple cracked and a couple whole. I put a couple just outside and the others inside near the trigger.
Sometimes I will have one that is adept at picking my trap. So, I rigged a little three sided "box" from hardware cloth wire and wired it to the cage. I put a few pecans in that box and wire it to the cage. What you have then is a handful of pecans that a squirrel can't get out of the cage/box. It makes the squirrels
stop and worry over it right over the trigger, which throws the trigger and traps them.
Posted on 4/14/24 at 7:12 pm to LegendInMyMind
I bought a squirrelenator and few weeks ago and then found out a coworker had one, so he let me use it. I was running both and caught 4. Then started running just one and caught 2 in 2 days Friday and yesterday. They def work. I pulled mine up for about a week to “reset” the squirrels because they became wary of it. That’s when I caught the 2 back to back. Would recommend. I have one more to catch and should be done with them and will see what happens again next fall/winter.
Posted on 4/14/24 at 7:53 pm to Marlo Stanfield
I'm wondering what the basin is that they show on their website. They don't seem to say anywhere what the purpose of it is.
Posted on 4/14/24 at 8:06 pm to LegendInMyMind
You fill it with water and set the trap in it. To put it bluntly, it’s for drowning them.
Posted on 4/14/24 at 8:33 pm to PillageUrVillage
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You fill it with water and set the trap in it. To put it bluntly, it’s for drowning them.
Well, that makes sense. I just relocate them. I have a spot several miles from me that family leases for hunting. That's where they go.
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