Help me catch Houdini Coon

wawajake · Jul 28, 2017

Ford850 said:
I'm betting he stole the trap to sell on Craigslist. Or maybe he'll hang it in his man cave to show his buddies when they come over.

good comment smile !!!

Toyboy · Jul 28, 2017

We had coon problems here also. I bought a couple dog proof coon traps and within 2 days I had that $#&*@@ 35# sob ! For anchors I used the type that screw into the ground for trees and put a heavy swivel on them so it couldn't get any leverage.
This type of trap will only catch coons and your other critters are safe.
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wagne223 · Jul 28, 2017

tallyho8 said:
The coon managed to get through chain link fencing in my coop and eat one of my chickens night before last. That was the last straw. I had wanted to catch the coon in my live trap instead of using a painful leg trap but now that he is eating my chickens he had to go one way or the other.

Well, I finally, sort of, caught the coon last night at last. I got a leg trap like wagne223 mentioned in post #3 and set it with a marshmallow, a few pieces of cat food and a little piece of tuna fish inside. My game cam caught the coon sneaking around my traps for a few minutes but it missed catching the coon getting caught.

When I went to check the trap this morning the only thing I found was the broken snap bolt clip in the attached photo that was used to hold the trap to the cage to keep the coon from running off with the trap. It took a lot of power for the coon to break that clip but Houdini did it.

Now either he will die of infection, get hung up somewhere and die of starvation or come back again as a three legged coon.

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You have to stake those traps good!
Coons are incredibly strong for their size.
Someone once told me they are like a 25 grizzly bear.

He will be back in a day or two.......with your trap still on his foot!

Wildlife can be pretty resilient!