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Reply #315 - Apr 6th, 2018 at 8:17pm
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Yellow timms traps work a treat on cats and ferrets alike have about 20 of them out and about
  
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Reply #316 - Apr 7th, 2018 at 1:01am
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BC wrote on Apr 6th, 2018 at 7:04pm:
X-POACHER-YEAH RYT wrote on Apr 5th, 2018 at 12:57am:
Good on you Cruz, keep up the effort, hell, I don't count hedgehogs, we get a few, they seem to arrive in families. Even seen the nocturnal little nasties on some of our game cameras. Quite interesting observing passing deer's reactions to a dead possum in a Timms trap on the game cam. pic's.


I capture some very large feral cats on my game cameras.

Whats the best way of trapping them people?
Need to be kill traps because I can't check them regularly.


If you are trapping where there is a chance of ground birds , pet dogs then the following 2 are possibly the best option ?https://www.kiwisforkiwi.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/LC2770-SA2-Kat-trap-repo...

See page 9 how it is set up.


https://www.traps.co.nz/sentinel-kill-trap

The sentinel is sold as a possum trap but it also does the bizzo on cats.
  
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Reply #317 - Apr 10th, 2018 at 10:34am
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Did my trap run at the Park today to beat the incoming rain - mustilids have to be around - but this box has been there for three years and only ever had hogs and rats
I reckon it is a good set - adjacent to a farm fence, bush for cover, rats, rabbits, Quail and Pheasants for food - what more could a ferret want - well maybe some very manky “Chef” salmon and chicken cat tucker - or was she heading for the plastic eggs - when I am desperate - I will try anything - ironically I was ready to buy some chicken necks for a change
Also got three rats and a couple of Mates got five rats each - 215 pests so far this year



  
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Reply #318 - Apr 17th, 2018 at 1:18am
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Local traps this morning, 2 rats and a mouse in a Victor pro.. bit of overkill  Roll Eyes

High country traps i only got a h h.

great catch Cruz  Cool

I heard a great idea the other day in live cat traps. Tie the bait up in a bit of muslin cloth and the cats claws get caught in the muslin for a split second .. enough time for the gate to shut behind the cat..
  
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Reply #319 - Apr 22nd, 2018 at 8:26am
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Hullo!, I thought, when I saw the ramp on the Holdem trap was locked in the up position, a damn rat.  As the trap was located on the rear deck of our hut, that's what I expected, but no, inside was mr. cheeky stoat.  Shocked  Caught another two stoats as well over the last three weeks, along with several h/hogs and three possums. The smoked schnapper did not seem to work as bait for stoats or feral cats,   chicken bones were the stoat's undoing.
  
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Reply #320 - Apr 29th, 2018 at 11:09pm
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Nothing to report on stoat trapping - I only ever got one cat in a Timms - it had a standard size hole - enlarged the hole to 100mm dia in a couple of traps but never had a strike - but I was still caging them



The great thing about a Timms is they are easy to hair trigger and then they will also take out a rat - got this big Norway a couple of weeks back - he must have been half a kilo - a huge rat!
  
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Reply #321 - May 2nd, 2018 at 2:10am
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Did my local traps yesterday and got 4 mice... yes big time trapper !!!  Cheesy Grin and a rat.

Checked the high country traps today and ruined 2 stoats and a rats week last week. Rat had a massively long tail on it, ship rat ?
  
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Reply #322 - May 2nd, 2018 at 7:18am
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Still getting 4 or 5 ferrets a week
  
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Reply #323 - May 17th, 2018 at 4:06am
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Local traps last week was 2 mice and 3 rats, today 6 mice and 1 rat. High country traps tomorrow. I am going to bait a few of the traps with badly shot up duck legs, feathers included.
  
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Reply #324 - May 18th, 2018 at 5:31am
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2 stoats and a rat today. 1 of the stoats was the biggest stoat i have seen , the other was a juvenile.
  
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Reply #325 - May 30th, 2018 at 9:47pm
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Local traps today.

Mice seem to be the flavour of the month. My Victors either had a mouse in them or had the peanut butter eaten and the trap wasnt sprung. However i did get a first for me, a juvenile stoat in a Victor baited with peanut butter ! I guess it could of been attracted to the smell of a mouse that had eaten the peanut butter and pissed on the trap ?
Rats seemed of dried up.

How are you other guys getting on ?
  
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Reply #326 - Jun 1st, 2018 at 6:28am
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Gone quiet down here only had 1 ferret in the last 2 weeks thay will b back as just got more live bait haha (chooks)
  
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Reply #327 - Jun 14th, 2018 at 7:58am
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5 stoats today in my high country traps. Bit shocked really as we dont expect many over the winter.

I am trying a new lure bait. A hand full of mallard feathers over the trap plate and in the bait end of the trap. The egg is elevated so it is viewable. Mallard feathers have a real smell to them. Cant wait to check them next week lol.
  
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Reply #328 - Jun 15th, 2018 at 3:46am
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Local traps this morning, 3 mice and the last 2 Victors i checked had 2 big adult rats, very bloody  Cool. No rats for a couple of weeks and then 2 not 100m apart.
  
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Reply #329 - Jun 15th, 2018 at 3:48am
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Fellas I am feeling pretty lonely in this section... post something please ?
  
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