Thread: Trapping Tips - the cotton tail flavour

Righto lads, let's here your advice!

I am wanting to trap rabbits in live capture box traps, so that if I manage to trap something I don't want to kill it can be released. Also I wouldn't want a stoat/feral cat/dog running off with my poor man's chicken dinner once I've snared it.

I have made a box trap very similar to the one in the video, the same triggering system anyway.

How to build a box trap - YouTube

What are your tips for baits, placement, or even traps? Am I barking up the wrong tree? I could probably make some wire snares somewhere a little less likely to catch a dog but at the moment I'll stick with the box traps I am planning on making a slightly improved MkII this arvo so chuck in your ideas before I start building shit again.





EDIT - basically the one I built yesterday is a wooden frame and wrapped in chicken wire. I got very frustrated to say the least while making it. The frame wood I chose was shite and it was timely and annoying to use chicken wire for the entire trap. I am going to make MkII from fence palings and just chicken wire one end (like the trap in the vid). Palings are pretty cheap and will be a lot easier to nail together than shitty thin framing crap! Also the trigger I made isn't really long enough - it'd probably take a fair bit of wiggling by the rabbit to un-hitch the notched stick that holds the door up.