I have been catching these all summer. They don't taste good so I have been looking for an alternate use for them. I decided to try my hand at making raccoon bait. I cut them up in chunks, mixed them with molasses and a dash of vanilla extract. This past weekend I tested them out. My mother in law has been having a problem with raccoon's getting in her garage. I baited a trap with the mix and sure enough, I got one the next morning!

Any left over part of a chicken, cooked or raw, nails them here in N. Alabama.

I have used canned sardines, just punched holes with an ice pick and dribbled some of the oil on top. Works on coons and skunks!

Here's one that work well and is less messy and nicer to handle.

One part peanut butter, half part honey and a couple drops of anise oil.

Try a sardine.

I use the cheapest tuna I can get. Usually one can will bait two traps with ease.

Dog food.

And still another: Last night two of them tore down a bird feeder and ate all the sunflower seeds.

Best bait I have used for raccoons and possums has been McDonald's cheeseburgers. Use 1/4 of the cheeseburger . . . works great. Apparently they like junk food too.

Raccoon's are pretty easy to trap. I just use marshmallows and a squirt of fish oil. A couple of marshmallows outside of the trap and 5-6 inside. Gets them every time.

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Originally posted by Bill Collector:
Raccoon's are pretty easy to trap. I just use marshmallows and a squirt of fish oil. A couple of marshmallows outside of the trap and 5-6 inside. Gets them every time.

Yup. Don't overthink it. Stay with sweet baits if non target cats are a problem

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Originally posted by MJines:
Best bait I have used for raccoons and possums has been McDonald's cheeseburgers. Use 1/4 of the cheeseburger . . . works great. Apparently they like junk food too.

Mike: What the hell possessed you to try a McDonalds cheeseburger? I'm going to try it...I like the way you think, sometimes.

LOL. We had a leftover McD's cheeseburger in the frig from one of the kids. We needed to set the trap and I said, let me try a part of this cheeseburger. The rest as they say is history.

Perfectly logical explanation to me. Ive used bologna, hot dogs, cheap tuna and cheaper sardines...the cheapo sardines seem to work the best. Around my place I don't think you could find a "leftover" McD cheeseburger.

The problem with marshmallows.........

I see the pic but what is it.

Flying squirrel???

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Originally posted by Trapper Tom:
Flying squirrel???

You could be right

It is a flying squirrel

I catch them all the time out of customers attics. Maybe I should use marshmallows!!!

Marshmallows work great for raccoons. I like to put a few on a stick as though I were going to roast them over a fire, and then put a little bit of sweet cherry oil and a tiny bit of fish oil on them, and stick it in the ground.

Appeals to two senses. sight, and smell. They can't resist it.

Marshmallows work well and are more pleasant to handle.