If the standard box trap just isn’t doing it, try using a drop trap It’s a large mesh box that you prop up and trigger manually with a rope or string. When the tricky kitty walks into the trap, pull the string to manually shut the door. Use enough string so you can hide a few feet away and hold the end of it.
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Prop the box trap door open with a stick or a full water bottle with string tied around it. The cat will be forced to step over the stick and her paw will land harder on the trigger plate just beyond it, springing the trap. The cats won’t be stepping around that trigger so easily!įor cats who have learned to step lightly to avoid triggering traps, slide a stick through the side holes of the trap just in front of the trigger plate and a few inches off the trap floor.
Duct tape the cardboard to the middle of the plate and loosely to the floor of the trap. Or cut a piece of cardboard a little narrower than the width of your trap and a couple of inches longer than the trigger plate. To keep her from tiptoeing over and around the plate, try covering it, and a bit of the trap floor in front of and behind it, with newspaper or cloth.
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Just make sure your disguise doesn’t interfere with the trap door closing! Run a test before setting it up for the real deal.Ī cat may have learned to recognize the plate that closes the trap door and how to avoid it. Then, place leaves, small branches, palm fronds, or whatever is in the natural environment around the top, sides, and on the floor inside the trap. Try covering the trap with natural material like burlap. Or try hanging a piece of cooked chicken from a string above the trigger plate to trick the cat into springing the trigger. Some cats can be guided into a trap with a laser pointer, which you can control from a distance. Set up the traps at these places and times. Note if there’s a certain tree or bush they like to sleep under, and what time of day they’re most likely to be in a specific area. Just like you have paths you walk every day, so do community cats! Be observant and watch for the trails that cats most often take. The more secluded, and the less people around, the better. Move the trap to a quieter, protected place so the cat feels safer going into it. Make sure you don’t use too much you don’t want the cat to get full before she reaches the trigger plate! You can also try using the smelly broth of canned cat food or meats as your bait trail. Gradually increase the size of the bait scraps as you place them on the trigger plate and beyond.
We have lots of suggestions for safe and tasty treats! Try jarred baby food, canned mackerel, or chicken.Ĭoax wary cats into the trap with a trap of tiny food scraps leading up to and then inside the trap. Something extra smelly and tasty, and perhaps out of the ordinary, might pique a cat’s interest. A larger trap with a taller opening and wider sides can be more inviting to a cat wary of entering an enclosed space.īy placing a dark towel over the trap, without blocking the door, you create a space that looks dark, hidden, and safe to cats. Start with the food right by the entrance of the trap and gradually move it closer to the back each day.Ĭats don’t like to feel trapped or boxed in. Don’t worryyou’ll get them! Try these 18 tips:įeed trap-shy cats out of unset traps in their normal feeding locations for a week or two before trapping again. They might be too suspicious of entering the trap, or maybe they keep getting the bait without triggering the trap door. When you’re conducting Trap-Neuter-Return (TNR), some cats may be particularly hard to trap.
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