a boa is hunting the cat - how to trap ?

[Megalodon]

Many of us who are owned by cats have worries about the cats who live indoor/outdoor lives. Going outside provides more stimulation than we can provide with an indoor existence only. Even in places with fewer predators (mostly everywhere but where you are), cats will get in trouble or killed outdoors. In most cases, cars take on the role of predator. My neighbor lost his beautiful 14 y.o. cat this weekend to a speeding car. I found him on the road saturday morning, a big beautiful orange tabby. My own two little ladies are indoors only. Both are rescues. One has no interest in the outdoors and is happy indoors while the other is a door darter. When she does escape, she is quickly caught and returned. I know she would enjoy being an indoor/outdoor cat, but we have copperheads and have had one cat bitten by one. I'm considering building a catio so they can see and hear birds but safe from snakes, coyotes, dogs and cars. One neighbor has one and I see their cats in it. I hope you find a solution that works for both you and your cat.

 

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[tinpan]

Hi Pet cats that go wild are considered pests . Foxs and birds of prey take a few . Mostly shoot on site . Some 1080 baits are used. TP

 

[IMAUDIGGER]

Tinpan...Australia's feral cat problem is kind of unique due to the magnitude.
I suspect your comments will produce mixed reactions in other places.

Here in the US, we do have a feral cat problem.
However shooting cats on sight or poisoning indiscriminately might actually result in a serious criminal charge.

I've had an outdoor cat for years. It's fixed and from what I can tell mostly kills mice and invasive doves.

Coyotes seem to do a decent job killing careless cats.

Back to the original topic...pythons have invaded Florida. If you figure out how to trap them effectively..there is money to be made. So far the State has failed miserably.

 

[BillA]

minor detour for a prospecting trip, pieces of worked rock bowls and pottery - but no yellow at all

ordered 6 hacksaw blades for snare loop springs, tested one by bending it around BANG and it shattered into 8 pieces or so
we will see

 

[IMAUDIGGER]

minor detour for a prospecting trip, pieces of worked rock bowls and pottery - but no yellow at all

ordered 6 hacksaw blades for snare loop springs, tested one by bending it around BANG and it shattered into 8 pieces or so
we will see

These constrictive snakes are incredibly strong. I question the anchors shown in the videos. I suspect they are trapping captured pet snakes.

 

[BillA]

the treble is really a great idea, a hit with everyone
in discussions with the old guy who occasionally works for me, he suggested I put the frog+treble under the deck where the tolomuco (tayra) will never go
bingo

These constrictive snakes are incredibly strong. I question the anchors shown in the videos. I suspect they are trapping captured pet snakes.

so I selected the hook (center) and crimped it to a 400# leader





which is looped around a 4x4, not gonna run
will update

and I found out about boa cerviche, got to cook the meat in a pressure cooker !

 

[Toecutter]

Thats it, simple and effective, please share your results...

 

[BillA]

lessons on live mounting frogs



obvious need to reverse

 

[DizzyDigger]

We used this method for coyotes and hung the treble hook from a tree branch, in your situation it would have to be lower or hung high and placed on a branch if they climb?, what other animals around their eat frogs? With the coyotes we used chicken liver and the only other animal that could reach it is a dog, luckley for me that was never a issue...

What Megalodon is saying is very true the treble hook doesn't care whats at the other end..

You use a treble hook to catch a mammal? is wrong with you?

Bill, if you have to kill a snake, then KILL IT. Don't make it suffer just because
it's doing what a snake does.

Site rules don't allow me to say what I really think of the idea, but if
you intentionally catch a coyote on a treble hook, you've earned this:

 

[Toecutter]

Some people have no idea what it takes, boohoo!!

 

[BillA]

DD - did you ever hear the song "for Hester to win just one more A, . . ."
if you nominate, proud to serve

is a snake a mammal ?
and what difference would that even make ?
is the fish gasping on the shore begging for clemency ?
arrgh

 

[BillA]

we were talking about snakes
and rest assured that if I catch it I will kill it immediately with a machete to minimize the reincarnated soul's torture

 

[Toecutter]

Not sure if you are referring to me, but if so, you're 100% wrong.

Spent many, many years as a longline trapper, and another 10 working
alongside USFW doing depredation control. I've trapped every North
American furbearer save martin and fisher. As for coyotes, I've put more
than a thousand on stretchers. Bobcat, mink, 'coons and a few others
into the many hundreds.

I'm old and grey but I could still trap circles around you, and do it humanely.

Yeah, I know what it takes, and only a ignorant greenhorn lacking the slightest
bit of respect for animals would take a treble fish hook and hope to catch a coyote with it.

'Nuff said.

Right cause your method is more humane lol ok Jeremiah Johnson, lets here your human ways of trapping lmao...

 

[DizzyDigger]

Right cause your method is more humane lol ok Jeremiah Johnson, \
lets here your human ways of trapping lmao...

Yes, my methods are humane. As for sharing them with you,
no thank you. Go take a greenhorn trapping education class.

 

[Treasure_Hunter]

Gentlemen please end it before a mod steps in.

 

[DizzyDigger]

My sincere apologies TH...I've got very few "hot" buttons, but
animal cruelty is right at the top.

Had a voice in my head telling me to just pass the thread by, but
my fingers had already reached the keypad. Next time I'll just
keep on steppin'.

 

[BillA]

you are not alone DD, a number here have expressed concerns

 

[BillA]

coyotes in Panama ?

https://gizmodo.com/camera-traps-show-invasive-coyotes-and-foxes-heading-to-1840612077

 

[Toecutter]

The treble hook snare is used by farmers not trappers, I gave up trapping a long time ago, but glad to hear there is such a thing as "Humane trapping" what ever that means

 

[BillA]

just hangin' loose