Thread: Bird Predator Control

She was bloody crazy alright and so was that other bit from spca

They should of asked the "cat lady" does a cat have the right to kill a kiwi ? It would of been interesting to hear her answer. Bat shit crazy comes to mind ...

Originally Posted by sore head stoat

They should of asked the "cat lady" does a cat have the right to kill a kiwi ? It would of been interesting to hear her answer. Bat shit crazy comes to mind ...

wot you said...

Yep I have never thought of a cat to be......"victimized"

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Originally Posted by kukuwai

Yep I have never thought of a cat to be......"victimized"

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Bo doing a cat scan!

Bo on the coon tonight.

Time to resurrect this great thread.

What is happening out there ?

I checked my high country lines a couple of weeks back, there are 80 plus doc 150's and I expected to get a few mustelids [i always expect to get a few but] after using cut up duck in and around the traps which I thought will murder them. 1 big adult stoat and 3 rats was the sum total, very disappointed I was .

My local traps it is just rats and weasels in the 150s and 200s and a couple of cats in the cage trap. H/hogs in hibernation I guess.

I have heard that there are quite a few rats up in the beech forests.

@sore head stoat

It looks like its only a matter of time before mine catches its first cat.

There is almost always a dead rat hung up in the kill bars as bait





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The other day I got given what looks like a Timms trap , its red.

I believe it catches tigers better if it is on a ramp, something to do with approach angle ? So could someone please put up a couple of photos how to set it up on a ramp or shall I just put it on the ground ?

Originally Posted by sore head stoat

The other day I got given what looks like a Timms trap , its red.

I believe it catches tigers better if it is on a ramp, something to do with approach angle ? So could someone please put up a couple of photos how to set it up on a ramp or shall I just put it on the ground ?

Those red ones used to be a very economical Timms copy, unsure if they are still made!
I have never put them on ramps except in areas with kiwi. Quite a few of them have been screwed onto pieces of timber. It gets them off the ground a bit but also can make larger holes for pegging them into the ground with larger pegs.

I just re read you previous post of 31.7 and thought if you are catching rats you will be getting cats hanging around and then I see todays post . Time to get a SA trap or a sentinal close by to get the cats

Another mate who is a very good trapper just text me this morning. He had a cat going in his cage trap but it wouldn't stand on the treadle. He put a bit of duck carcass right at the back of the cage and disconnected the treadle but wired the duck bit to the trip lever , one clever feral cat caught and out of the system.

The at220s sure do work. One of them had a pile a squished mice in/under it too.

@sore head stoat -
The red Timms “look-alike” trap is not a patch on the yellow Timms – they rust out, the rod caps often fall off, rods get rusty and get very hard to trip, - its hard to beat a real yellow Timms.
For many years, I have mounted a Timms on a large log or on a stump – seems to work well.

Thanks TLB and time out, exactly what I wanted to know