Hahahaha
DocZaius said:Now I'm curious what kinds of traps you're setting that require electricity.
Juggs said:Well. A fucking opossum is in my live trap through the main path the coons came through last night. A coon came still came though. And last night for the first time I forgot to plug in the electric wire becuase I haven't bought another timer yet.
I come out at 5am and I still caught the coon in the dog proof trap. Slight problem now though. The chain was a little too long that hte trap was anchored to, so the coon is able to climb around the axels and all over this large steel tractor cart...like 4'x8', all steel. A real tractor cart, not a lawn mower. Which my dad was supposed to haul back last week when they were visiting. But they didn't. So it still sat there ready to be moved and now the coon is all over it.
So I have no idea how to kill this coon now. The .177 pellet gun won't kill a coon. I'm sure as hell not getting close enough to stab it unless I want to tape a good knife to a poll and try to stab it. I can't get to it to bash it with a shovel. I could try to shoot it with a .22, but I try to use that as an absolute last resort and my liberal neighbors who contently try to rat on their neighbors can't be home. Or the traffic on 39th can't be busy. And then I have to really hope it doesn't hit the metal cart if it went through the coon and there's only 1 direction I could risk shooting, which I don't think I can get an angle to in that direction.
So I'm kind of at a loss how to kill it. That's the problem with these dog proof traps. I guess I'm back to a spear or try to poison it.
That defeats the purpose of trapping it in the first place...so it doesn't come back to kill my chickens.DocZaius said:Or you could just let it go.
DocZaius said:Dindu nuffin. It was the armadillo!
Cus said:This reaffirms my faith in humanity.
And makes me want chicken.
Juggs said:Cus said:This reaffirms my faith in humanity.
And makes me want chicken.
Doc defending coons or my stabbing them with a knife taped to a pole?![]()