All but two of the screws at the top of the vent fell out of the vent unit, providing easy access to a female raccoon looking for a place to raise a family. Amazing how she found it on top of the garage.
We removed the vent and went to work on a positive set, blocking the opening, except for a section at the bottom, soon to be occupied by a double door cage trap. This Comstock double door trap had a smaller opening, only 6x11, a third smaller than the standard 9x11. The cage to be used is a 6x11x36. An ADC trapper named Gerrod Walker had us custom make him a bunch of them for coon and loves them. Though they look small, in a positive set, coon do not hesitate to go through them. A coon can easily fit into a 5 inch, hole, why not a 6x11 opening?
Two pieces of wire were all that were needed to cover the opening around the trap. Note the "foot" unit clipped onto the end of the cage trap at the bottom to hold it solid and level. We used a couple of clips to hold the cage to the wire covering the opening also.
This is an overview. You will notice in all the pictures that my hair color is "beginning" to fail. LOLs
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