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Live trap modification


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I've had a live squirrel trap in the garden for a few years, and up to this year, baited with peanuts in an open pot, caught a steady stream of squirrels.

 

This year, however, all I found each day was an upturned pot, no nuts and no squirrel - the trap was still set.

 

My thoughts were mice or birds, because I had seen blue-tits hopping in and out, so the cage was clad in bird netting - same result

 

A mouse trap produced no results, but the nuts were still going.

 

Then I considered whether the squirrel had learned to upset the bait pot, and eat the spilled nuts off the ground, so yesterday I Araldited a cluster of peanuts to the bait pot, and Araldited that to the trap plate.

 

Result

 

1 very lively female and dispatched her this morning

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