This Humane Trap Can Guard Your Vegetable Patch!

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July/August 1978
By Bob Lawrence 
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Since varmints are much more likely to enter hollow logs, etc., that they can see all the way through, the back end of the box is covered with strong, open-mesh hardware cloth. Whatever animal you're trying to catch is further enticed into the trap by baiting the trip bar with a food or scent that the species is known to like. In the case of rabbits, anything from carrots and lettuce to rabbit pellets or good clover hay seems to work.

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A few last hints: Make sure your trip bar is positioned with the notch facing forward (so the rabbit will disengage it when he bumps into the stick), and cut the trigger long enough that it clears the bottom of the trap by no more than an inch (you don't want the rabbit to crawl under the bar and miss it entirely). You'll also find the trap works best if you put it outside to "weather" away most of its human smell for a few weeks after you build it and before you set it (while wearing gloves) for the very first time.

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  • Keith Hallam 8/27/2008 4:39:38 PM

    Hi, the trap looks ok. The problem is with the release of furry little critters 'far away'. Isn't it illegal to release rodents and other pests once caught??
    Regards, Keith

  • aurelio 1/12/2008 9:01:43 PM

    thanks this trap works good

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