How to Catch a Raccoon with a Live Animal Trap
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1) IDENTIFICATION & INSPECTION: 0:20
2) TREATMENT: 1:31
3) PREVENTION: 3:40
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It’s not uncommon for raccoons to wander onto your property in search of food, water, and shelter. Having raccoons can cause damage to your property or even health issues. In this video, we’ll go over how to identify raccoons, how to trap them using professional live traps, and ways to prevent them from coming back.
Raccoons have a distinctive look and can easily be identified by their gray fur, ringed tail, and facial coloring that gives them their iconic “eye mask.” They typically stand 12 inches tall and are 24 to 38 inches in length. Raccoons are nocturnal, so most of their activity will occur at night.
Check any garbage bins you keep outdoors for evidence of raccoon activity. An obvious indicator is if the bin is tipped over, but you can also look for trash in the surrounding area.
If there are any fruit or vegetable plots, check these for animal activity, such as chewed or eaten plants, droppings, or tracks. Raccoons will also eat pet food if left out overnight, so check for missing food or disturbed bowls.
After identifying your pest animal, select the best bait to increase your chances of a successful capture. Raccoons will eat anything, but they are especially attracted to sweets. For this, marshmallows is a low cost and effective bait option.
Before trapping, make sure you put on your personal protective equipment, or PPE, especially gloves. Gloves will prevent you from transferring your scent to the trap or bait, which will dissuade raccoons from approaching.
In order to maximize our chances of catching the raccoon, we need to remove food sources that may compete with our bait. This includes sealing trash bins, picking up pet food after dark, fencing away fruit and vegetable gardens, and sweeping up fallen fruits, berries, and seeds.
Place your live trap far away from human or pet activity, along the edge of your property. Physical boundaries like fence lines, dense foliage, and garden edging make great placement guides, so set your trap along these structures.
If you are dealing with a raccoon indoors, you can set your trap near entry points in the garage, attic, or basement.
Once you are satisfied with your trap placement, you can bait and arm it. Check your trap twice a day, once in the morning and once in the evening.
Once you have captured a raccoon in your live trap, place a towel over the cage to avoid frightening the animal. Be sure to contact local authorities like animal control to confirm laws in your area about animal trapping and make sure you are correctly relocating the animal. Travel to your release location, which should be more than 20 miles away. Place the trap on the ground facing away from you, and open the trap.
After you’ve successfully used your live trap, there are a few preventative measures you can take to make sure you do not have another animal problem.
Maintaining a clean area indoors and outdoors is an important step to take. Keep trash outdoors and in sealed containers. Remove any clutter or debris from your property, as this could be used by animals for nests or burrows. Regularly check the property for spots that retain water. Any potential food sources such as pet food should be properly sealed in a container and stored away.
Prevent raccoons from entering your property by sealing any openings you may have found along the perimeter or foundation.
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After you trap the raccoon a .22 works great.
I've been using tuna fish and apples and I've caught three this week😂 I have more raccoons then chickens left
I've caught several....we live WA state in the city 4 blocks from a creek so they work their way into the neighborhood. The problem with the standard metal cage is they need to make the space LONGER from the trigger plate to the back of the cage. We have raccoons reaching over the plate to grab the food (they get smart, especially if they've seen their sibling get caught). It becomes almost impossible to get them to step on the trigger plate. So I've been backing the cage up to a building so they can't get behind it and I literally cut a 3" x 3" door in the back of the cage for easy food placement (I cut 3 sides, bent it up then use a copper wire to close it back up). Then I use the bottom section of a clear plastic water bottle (makes a small dish) and zip tie it to the back of the cage. They can see the food but they have to reach down inside a couple inches to get it so it forces them onto the plate. But if it were me, I would redesign the cage. They don't like to see wire, I would like to try the plastic cages.
What if it won't go on the cage trap? Then how do I trap it?
It's got babies in the attic
22 miles in gas or 1 .22 round
Hmmm
KMSL
@@BUTT785 - ??
Why waste a 22 round? A barrel of water is a lot cheaper.
@@billcarver6539 I wanna go to heaven 😂
@@billcarver6539 Jesus fuck bro. Thats to far holy shit
Thanks for the tips
We know what a raccoon looks like bro 🤣
Thank you for the info....
Raccoons love fish so sardines or tuna fish works great
I have a big ole booger in the attic, what size trap for a large hell Rat?
Caught one this weekend that actually got out of the same kind of trap over night. Smart buggers they are.
The raccoon I'm trying to trap is smarter than that trap. He reaches through the cage opposite the entrance and takes the food. He never trips it. I have it on video.
cover sides of your trap so they can't reach in.
Go buy some dog Proof foothold traps
Put your bait underneath the trap so he has to go inside of it to get to it. And tie it down so he can’t tip it.
Wanna see that video
I'm currently dealing with one who does the same thing.
I think I've gotten more using sardines. They like the fatty foods
Raccoons are notorious for reaching through cages that aren't cross meshed and stealing bait. Piece of pvc pipe with a hole drilled in it threaded with a piece of trapping wire or any wire suspended in the rear of the cage will improve treadle triggering as they will work the bait. Important to just wrap the wire around the mesh to ensure they can pull it down . The pvc pipe serves as an occupier and bait holder. Very effective method for baiting live traps.
I put my traps in the corner of two objects so that the back and one side is completely blocked off. I use canned sardines as bait. I place the bait in the back closest to the blocked off side. I try to cover up the top and remaining open side of the trap with miscellaneous items like feed bags or a plastic sled I have. I always place something really heavy on top such as a cinder block. I have caught and euthanized 4 raccoons in the last week because they killed one of my chickens. If you don’t block off the back and sides they will just reach through and steal the bait. Hope this helps somebody. They do get really smart and if you don’t switch up the location or disguise it well enough, they will not go into the trap after watching their buddies get caught.
I'm going to try that. I have one smart raccoon , he takes the bait and the trap goes off. Could he be so big he just backs out of the trap?
@@lobstermania4025 That’s a possibility. Just make sure you have a trap designed for raccoon size animals. Hope you catch it soon!
@@Milwaukee307 I caught him soon after I posted using your ideas plus the stick over the set... He was a monster and very mad! Yesterday I finally got the Groundhog that was terrorizing our garden. Thank you for the tips!
yeah we had one traped and we went to get something to put the trap with him in it, in and he was gone when we came back
How do you get your scent off the trap?
Wash it, handle with latex gloves, and then rub some bait on the trap as a cover scent.
Lmfao my release location is my shotgun
Old shrimp and dog food work great I’ve caught all my coons with it also you can use a dog proof trap and fish oil
Would Can Sardines in Oil works too? Or CanTuna?
I am new to your Channel
I live in Washington and we have raccoons the size of baby bears they are huge the bigger they are the smarter they are I've set a trail camera out studying raccoons and they don't go in live traps not around here
Do you have any advice?
Get me a baby one and I pay you for him or her 🥺🥺
thanks very helpful
We appreciate the positive feedback!
@@solutionspestandlawn thanks for repying
Thanks, I’m trying to catch the raccoon family that killed all my chickens
i had one kill one of mine tonight luckily i was up and the other chicken lived, i catch that bastard its getting a 22 pellet to the gut and then dumped in the creek there wont be no peacful transfer lol
Yeah those bastards killed 3 of my hens they aren't getting away...
@@yeshuaadoneinu436
Ok
Lost a chicken, Fatty, last night brutally to a raccoon and here I am. This is war. Fatty will not die in vain!
@@forrestrawls9978
Ah yes. Calling a mammal ‘fatty’ rip chicken
Mine likes the combination of little bits and pieces of fried chicken and cookies.
Would a Pistol Crossbow Horizone Redback kill a Raccoon?
Raccoon is hard to kill thirty year trapping
I love how it should raccoon pop while I was eating pancakes
What the fuck are u saying man 😂
This did not demonstrate how the trap actually works
I relocate the raccoons I trap to the county dumpster. Somehow they all died from lead poisoning
What do you do if you have outside cats around?
We have semi-feral cats on the property, which we feed to keep them around for rodent control. Coons began raiding the dry cat food placed outside, so I fed the cats in the morning, they would clean up all the food by noon, since coons are nocturnal, I placed a small dish of cat food in the trap at night, and the next morning, sucess! 4 for 4 so far...
Good idea, but how do you prevent your cats from going into the trap for a snack?
@@marycecile779 Well, one of our barn cats has been in the trap three times--you'd think they would learn--so I started using cookies and watermelon. I've trapped eight coons so far, one of them was last night during a heavy downpour,
@@txoilfield I read they like marshmallows.......I'll try that. Thanks for the reply.
Field corn works well to catch raccoons and ground hogs but not cats.
The trapped in that work for me and we’ve tried all kinds of things to get this raccoon out I’ll leave and I’ll come back I don’t know us do I can’t afford to get somebody to trap it that’s why I’ve been trying to work with the Property Manager to do it ourselves
-I do it myself all the time. Why pay them when i can do it just as good. Once you know what to do,Then it's no problem. Raccoon's like sweat things. Put a few small pieces in front of trap a few feet away & 1 or 2 sm pieces in trap,And a handful in the rear past the plate.. When they walk in & step on the slant plate It will go down and release the small clip at top. Trap will close very fast And now you have the pest raccoon to get rid of. The rest is up to you. If You have a dog it's best to keep them inside till coon is in trap. Remember raccoons only come out at night. You will probably have a coon in the trap anywhere from 10pm to 3pm.
How do you keep him in the trap mine get out
Get a better trap. That shouldn't be happening with a quality trap.
If a racoon has ra its and you eat the racoon, wouldn't the human get rabies too?? Just a thought..
I saw a raccoon on my property for the first time in my life. My 2 year old figured out how to get into our child proof trash can so we started setting it outside on the back porch. I can’t wait to see what a 12 gauge slug does to a large rodent.
A suppressed .22 does wonders and does not alarm neighbors.
@@txoilfield I hate my neighbors
@@LeskoBrandon2x touche'
@@LeskoBrandon2x sure it's mutual
@@novadude65 hope it is
If you dont show how to release one, what good are you. 😂
cannot release raccoons here and you can trap year round as they are pests here
Humanly control it with a 12ga
I prefer an ar15. turns those fuckers into red mist. They killed my ducks, now its time to pay. I'll see you in hell bastards.
Get help setting up a new one else may read print retransmit disseminate or otherwise use this communication is strictly forbidden to the problem 😡 to use the tarp to send you 😮
What if they have babies in my attic
With a situation like that, it may be best to hire an animal control professional. Mother animals can be very aggressive when it comes to protecting their young ones, especially if they are holed up in an enclosed space like an attic. Stay safe and consult Animal Control.
Search for a wildlife non profit organization in your area. They will guide to who is best for these creatures.
We had a mother with babies in our attic. Read they don't like bright lights or human voices, so we rigged up shop lights up there, and a radio playing Jimmy Swaggart all day. We actually saw her move those babies one at a time. We evangelized that raccoon right out of there!
Kill them all. Burn your house down
Call an expert
The trap is an inanimate object therefore the coon is smarter than you!😏🦝
Raccoons eat my chickens, I eat the raccoons.
You will get sick. Eating racoon..or have rabies in your body.....
A raccoon got in my house and killed my pet parrot. 😭😭😭
Tell me where you live and I’ll bring a 12 gauge and stay on a 48 hour raccoon watch you might here some local be booms but be glad cause that means dead coons
😮😢
You should never relocate a racoon. More than likely this will kill them as you might be putting them in another raccoons territory and they might just find their way back. Also it is illegal in many states as they are a rabid vectoring species. Most humane thing to do would be to put it down using a pellet gun or small caliber bullet.
Bullshit they have survival skills that exceed man and they think 🤔
I am a chicken & fowl keep - relocating doubles my existing problem. Do NOT relocate!!!
I eat them. Problem solved..
Thank yiu
Nah fuck 24 hours those killed my cats
I’m here to trap something to eat. Not replace. Coon meat sounds good.
Thanks for your feedback.
Oh it's delicious. Really savory and kinda fatty. Great for stews, burgers, and roasted whole like a chicken. Can definitely barbeque it too
@@matthewwollyung7868
I wouldn’t eat smoked meat. It could give you cancer.
I know a fellow southerner when I see one. Hope you got your raccoon bro
Nothing eats coon but buzzards LMAO Southerners are clueless
Why 20 miles from where you trapped it?
Hi Jim, thanks for watching. You want to make sure that you travel a long distance so that the trapped animal cannot easily find its way back to your property.
Solutions Pest & Lawn I’m gonna kill it
kill it it could harm you
Relocate to hell
@@jlunn900 Yuuup. Relocating is just making it someone else's problem.
They taste like pot roast
So do 50 yr old meat flaps
I def wouldn't eat these fuckers.
Raccoons keep killing my kittens. If he can't find food that night he eats a kitten.
Put kittens inside
man i dont wanna kill these guys i want one to chill with and one that can carry me in csgo :/
I watched this video because one of these bandit rats took the life of two of my flat billed children they WILL PAY DEARLY WITH THERE LIVES AS KARMA IS PASSED OUT LIKE COINS AND THE LAST THOUGHTS IT WILL HAVE IS REGRETTING KILLING MY CHILDREN
@@FriendlyNeighborhoodGayGuy yeah but raccoons are cooler then children ngl
But im sorry to hear that mate
@@FriendlyNeighborhoodGayGuy They killed 9 of my ducks. I now shoot them on sight. Any raccoons trapped in my traps are promptly executed for crime against duck kind.
@@Bl00obs I agree I will kill any raccoons on sight
@@blvck3711 ? So if your children were killed by raccoons you wouldn’t care?
beautifol adon t want to killin him he eat mi chickens thank you
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don,t release them shoot them if not dog food is the best bait
for coyotes
You shouldn't relocate them. You should kill them!
Jesus worst video ever