Live Animal Traps

[Richard001]

I made this trap following some videos from Youtube. It's not very big, about 7X8 inches and 24 inches long.

On the end as you can see, I have put a 1/4 X 1/4 inch galvanized screen to keep the critters inside.

I gave this to a friend of mine to use to get rid of rabbits and chipmunks. Got a rabbit and several chipmunks, but now something else has got into the trap and somehow chewed it's way out right thru the screen. See here:

Does anyone have any idea of what could chew thru a steel screen ?

Richard

 

[MoKelly]

Nothing I want to run into in the dark! Yikes.

MoKelly

 

[Rustyiron]

I don't know, but it's got to be about toothless now.

 

[MossRoad]

I made this trap following some videos from Youtube. It's not very big, about 7X8 inches and 24 inches long.


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On the end as you can see, I have put a 1/4 X 1/4 inch galvanized screen to keep the critters inside.

I gave this to a friend of mine to use to get rid of rabbits and chipmunks. Got a rabbit and several chipmunks, but now something else has got into the trap and somehow chewed it's way out right thru the screen. See here:

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Does anyone have any idea of what could chew thru a steel screen ?

Richard

I had a house cat that could chew through that. We made a large enclosure with that for sidewalls for him so we could lock him up whenever we went away or he'd eat the house. He ate the enclosure, then ate the house. Big kitty with big appetite. Otherwise lovable.

 

[MoKelly]

He ate the enclosure, then ate the house. Big kitty with big appetite. Otherwise lovable.

That made me laugh. Luckily, I read between sips of coffee!

MoKelly

 

[big bubba]

racoon?

 

[MossRoad]

That made me laugh. Luckily, I read between sips of coffee!

MoKelly

17 pound cat. All muscle. No fat. All boy. 37" long nose to tail. He would stand on the floor next to the dining room table and grab food off of my dinner plate with his paw if I didn't keep an eye on him. He'd eat corn on the cob with the dog. I was sort of shocked that he chewed through the hardware cloth, but then again...

 

[jaxs]

Nothing larger than a rat could squeeze out the hole and wire has always turned rats back so I believe someone accidently damaged it,or maybe intentionally so they could fun you about it.

 

[Richard001]

Nothing larger than a rat could squeeze out the hole and wire has always turned rats back so I believe someone accidently damaged it,or maybe intentionally so they could fun you about it.

Well I thought about that, a neighbor cutting the screen, but when I closely examined the screen, i could not see any cut marks that a wire cutter would make.

Actually, this is the second time that this has happened.

The new replacement for the screen is now a much stronger wire bars from an old fan cover.

Richard

 

[big bubba]

next time get a game cam on it & post

 

[jaxs]

Well I thought about that, a neighbor cutting the screen, but when I closely examined the screen, i could not see any cut marks that a wire cutter would make.

Actually, this is the second time that this has happened.

The new replacement for the screen is now a much stronger wire bars from an old fan cover.

Richard

I wasn't there so all I have to go on is the evidence. When you closely examined the screen,did you notice (A) how wires are praticly tied in knots at one side of opening? That doen't square with an animal chewing through. (B) unsupported wires protruding into opening,one pratically dead center and extending almost completly across opening? Why weren't the unsupported wires pushed out of opening when the critter went through?
I know of feed and grain storage rooms with vents covered in 1/4" hardware cloth the passed 20 years without being chewed through. When you get it,post the game cam footage so we can be on the alert for a similar varmint.

 

[Richard001]

next time get a game cam on it & post

Good idea, if I continual to have trouble with this, I will do that.

 

[Richard001]

I wasn't there so all I have to go on is the evidence. When you closely examined the screen,did you notice (A) how wires are praticly tied in knots at one side of opening? That doen't square with an animal chewing through. (B) unsupported wires protruding into opening,one pratically dead center and extending almost completly across opening? Why weren't the unsupported wires pushed out of opening when the critter went through?
I know of feed and grain storage rooms with vents covered in 1/4" hardware cloth the passed 20 years without being chewed through. When you get it,post the game cam footage so we can be on the alert for a similar varmint.

Actually, I moved some of those wires while I was examining the opening.

But good catch.

Richard

 

[big bubba]

Good idea, if I continual to have trouble with this, I will do that.

i'd just be interested in seeing the animal able to do that. from the looks of exit hole, too high for rat?

 

[jaxs]

Actually, I moved some of those wires while I was examining the opening.

But good catch.

Richard

Aaahaa,monkeying with the scene before taking pictures to post. How are we to know if and how many others messed with that trap before you got there? I seem to recall seeing this movie before? Only difference was the trap was much larger and huge barefoot tracks lead away into the forest.

 

[oosik]

Without game cam footage - I question the validity of that hole. Otherwise - rat, ferret or weasel.

 

[jaxs]

Considering programs available for doctoring video,I'm not sure you should believe your lying eyes if footage become's available.

 

[jthibodeau89]

I'm thinking weasel/ferret. Hole too small for racoon.

 

[Sonny580]

I'm thinking weasel/ferret. Hole too small for racoon.

X-2 ot that! ---had them here and yes they can blast thru that light wire with no problem!

 

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