Rats, Great success story with Comstock Double Door Squirrel Cage Traps

Rats can be tough to catch as they are often quite skittish with the introduction of anything new or different to their environment.  Some Animal Damage Control Operators will pre-bait traps to acclimate rats to the sudden appearance of something foreign. like traps.  Where mice may be curious, rats can be intimidated by change and may require some time to accept the traps.  A pre-baited trap, left unset, will allow rats to lose their fear while feeding for several days, growing accustomed to the traps before they are set.

In this case George Gardner of Columbia County, N.Y. received a call about rats living in a house not far from his home.  George began with normal pre-baiting procedures with several of the Comstock 5x5x24, Double Door, Panless, Squirrel Traps.  He received a call the following day, informed that the bait was gone.  Realizing that these rats were hungry, without any fear of the traps, George re-baited the 4 traps and set them up.  Within a few days he had removed 13 rats, including catching doubles a couple of times, but you don't always know if you have caught them all.

It's usually not difficult to catch a rat or two at a location, but can be a challenge to take them all.  The  occupants of the house has since have not heard of seen any sign of rat activity, which means that with the Comstock Squirrel traps and black sunflower seeds, which rodents love, the problem was completely remedied.    

Fox pup in Comstock Cage Traps, Positive Sets

Dale, from New York, shared his success with this picture.  He live trapped 4 red fox pups at the den in positive sets with Comstock 18 and 24 inch 9x11 double door cage traps.  

Land Set with Comstock Beaver Live Cage Trap

Below are pics of a beaver caught in the 12x18x39 Comstock Beaver cage Trap taken in a land set in Colorado by Jay.  Of the 550 beaver I have taken in these cages, only 1 was caught right side up in a land type set in about an inch of water at the end of a culvert.  Everyone has a different situation and a different way of problem solving.  It's great to see something new and how versatile this trap is.  Since others have set this trap on its side when set in land in trails, we thought that's the way this would go too.  Love to hear success stories and thankful for the pics so that we all can learn form the experiences of others.  Looks like a pretty big beaver.    

Raccoon in Comstock single door 9x11x30 live cage trap used with Comstock chimney adapter

Above is a raccoon in a Comstock single door 9x11x30 inch live cage trap with Comstock chimney adapter for raccoons.  Unlike other brands of chimney traps that "balance" on top of the chimney, this trap with adapter slides 18 inches into the chimney for much greater stability.  In this way it functions like the Comstock 29 inch raccoon chimney trap from the last post that slides all the way into a chimney out of view.  

Because this universal adapter works with 9x11 Comstock Cages, it can easily clipped onto a Comstock 30 or 36 single or double door cage to be used like the above photo that Matt Chittwood of Tennessee shared.  

There are now two options in Comstock Cages for trapping raccoons in chimneys, one as pictured above with the adapter and Comstock Cage or two, the Comstock Chimney trap that slips into a chimney out of view. 

This chimney cage adapter allows for Comstock 9x11 cages to be transformed into a raccoon chimney trap in little more than seconds for far less cost than other raccoon chimney traps that have but one use, while at the same time giving a trapper the advantage of being able to simply remove the adapter and return the cage to "regular duty" on the ground for skunks, woodchucks, armadillos etc.

  The advantage of the single purpose chimney trap is that it slides down the chimney out of sight and is only 29 inches long, very light in weight.      

Double Door Comstock Cage with Comstock Chimney
adapter in the upright position. 

Above is a Comstock Cage with chimney adapter
attached.  Looking "down the barrel."

Comstock Chimney Adapter

Another Catch in a Comstock Raccoon Chimney Trap

Bryan in Virginia needed a couple of raccoon chimney traps ASAP.  As luck would have it, we happened to have 2 on hand, which shipped right out.  The top photo shows the coon looking up through the 29 inch 5x9 Comstock trap from inside the chimney.  Bottom picture tells the story, Caught!  Light weight, compact, stable and priced less than others, these traps have been working very well.