Ok I set one live trap in a very highly used bobcat location. I baited the trap with left overs from some cottontail I shot. I want to know what else can be used to attract cats to the trap. I read someplace mixing blood and water. What about juice from a tuna fish can? I need ways to get the cat to the door. Once there I am sure they will go for the rabbit parts, since it is the most plantiful food source around.
Bobcat attractor/live trap...
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centerfire_223
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I have a guy that I know that takes a live chicken and makes a cage out of wire. Puts in food and water for the chicken and then sets 6 steel traps around the cage. He has caught them 2 at a time this way.
Hang some feathers from a high branch around your cage,dangling from some fishing line.If legal in your state.I also had wondered about the electronic calls that they use around traps.It gives off a chirp sound every so often.I think either of these would help you out.Also be sure to use some bobcat gland lure and or bobcat urine in front of the trap.When you get one,make sure to post some pictures and good luck /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grinning-smiley-003.gif.take care,daveyboy /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grinning-smiley-006.gif
Nickj1980
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elks,
When I was doing predator control work in Utah I usually put a can of cat food at the back of the cage no matter what species I was looking for. The cat food was about 12 for $1 at the dollar store back then. The beef flavor dried out too fast and didn't work very well, but the chicken and fish were great. I used to toss out a few small suckers or chubs or even anchovies around the entrance to the live trap. The longer you keep them near the trap the better the chances that an animal will actually go in. You can add a drop or two of anise oil (not in the cat food, but near it) to give it a little more more "calling" quality and pull a cat to the trap that may not have come to it otherwise. Some guys who use leghold traps put some cat-nip along with the bait. You can hang some light colored feathers from fishing line at the back of the cage to help draw him into the trap visually if the food isn't enough.
You might just want to throw something different out there since there are so many rabbits around this year. Curiosity is the fundamental element of live trapping any critter successfully.
Just some thoughts.
When I was doing predator control work in Utah I usually put a can of cat food at the back of the cage no matter what species I was looking for. The cat food was about 12 for $1 at the dollar store back then. The beef flavor dried out too fast and didn't work very well, but the chicken and fish were great. I used to toss out a few small suckers or chubs or even anchovies around the entrance to the live trap. The longer you keep them near the trap the better the chances that an animal will actually go in. You can add a drop or two of anise oil (not in the cat food, but near it) to give it a little more more "calling" quality and pull a cat to the trap that may not have come to it otherwise. Some guys who use leghold traps put some cat-nip along with the bait. You can hang some light colored feathers from fishing line at the back of the cage to help draw him into the trap visually if the food isn't enough.
You might just want to throw something different out there since there are so many rabbits around this year. Curiosity is the fundamental element of live trapping any critter successfully.
Just some thoughts.
steelieking
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A little added note to others sugestions.
What ever you decide to use as bait, add glycerin to it to keep it from freezing. The smell is greatly diminished when it freeze's.
I use beaver meat cut in small squares, add a pint of glycerine per gallon and one drop of pure skunk musk for a carryer. I like to slightly taint the chunk bait and then stablize it with sodium benzote before adding the glycerine.
I use a feather flag over the cage trap and a flag of fur/ feathers inside.
What ever you decide to use as bait, add glycerin to it to keep it from freezing. The smell is greatly diminished when it freeze's.
I use beaver meat cut in small squares, add a pint of glycerine per gallon and one drop of pure skunk musk for a carryer. I like to slightly taint the chunk bait and then stablize it with sodium benzote before adding the glycerine.
I use a feather flag over the cage trap and a flag of fur/ feathers inside.