Quillback Posted July 25, 2012 Posted July 25, 2012 My canteloupe are starting to get ripe, went out to the garden yesterday morning and noticed a couple of busted and hollowed out cantaloupe. I was pizzed. Don't mess with my lopes. Got out the trap, baited it with dry dogfood, set it out in the evening and this morning I had not one, but two of the little thieving buggers in the trap. They were relocated to a woods far away.
Wayne SW/MO Posted July 25, 2012 Posted July 25, 2012 I think many wild animals are gravitating toward foods with moisture in them just to get a drink. Congrats on relocation. Today's release is tomorrows gift to another fisherman.
fly2fish Posted July 25, 2012 Posted July 25, 2012 Keep putting out the trap, last year I got 17 coons out of 1 pear tree in a little over a month late last summer. Already have 4 for this year but they are still in my neighbors apple trees every night, when the apples are gone I'm sure they will hit the pear tree which has more pears on it than it has ever had in 20 years. F2F
Ham Posted July 25, 2012 Posted July 25, 2012 I'm going to have to buy a live trap. Sounds like a good project for today. I hope those stay gone. Every Saint has a past, every Sinner has a future. On Instagram @hamneedstofish
jdmidwest Posted July 26, 2012 Posted July 26, 2012 2 possums and a coon here, they have been tearing up my tomatoes. Trap is set for a possum tonight, caught him on the game camera last night. I thought I had got them all. Came home this afternoon and the kiddie pool had the top ring deflated and mud was smeared all around it. Took a while to figure out, wild hog. The neighbor in the subdivision joining ours kept a jumping mule. It kept getting out, finally had to shoot it with a plastic pellet load of 12 ga to keep it off my property and out of the garden. They have gotten rid of the mule, raising pigs now. I catch one this time, BBQ. "Life has become immeasurably better since I have been forced to stop taking it seriously." — Hunter S. Thompson
Daryk Campbell Sr Posted July 26, 2012 Posted July 26, 2012 A simple solution to the problem of animals getting into fruit for the water is to put a water dish out away from your garden/trees/ect. The animals will drink from the dish and are less likely to ambush your items. Money is just ink and paper, worthless until it switches hands, and worthless again until the next transaction. (me) I am the master of my unspoken words, and the slave to those that should have remained unsaid. (unknown)
Wayne SW/MO Posted July 26, 2012 Posted July 26, 2012 A simple solution to the problem of animals getting into fruit for the water is to put a water dish out away from your garden/trees/ect. The animals will drink from the dish and are less likely to ambush your items. Absolutely right on. Squirrels are especially bad about biting tomatoes when there is a water shortage. Today's release is tomorrows gift to another fisherman.
jdmidwest Posted July 27, 2012 Posted July 27, 2012 Tried the water trick, did not stop them. Game cam caught the possums coming in getting a drink from the water dish. Then it caught them eating maters. The trap did the trick. "Life has become immeasurably better since I have been forced to stop taking it seriously." — Hunter S. Thompson
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