Live trapping coyotes

Chas

Chas

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Got asked the other day in the grocery store if it was legal to live trap coyotes in town. Have done some checking and it appears it is.

Got me thinking as our town is being over run with coyotes and at least two dogs killed in last couple of weeks. I have explained that a few of us that can shoot in town are limited to 2 tags per year and I have already filled one tag. So I got to thinking that it might be a way around the tag issue and provide some level of predator control.

So wondering if anyone has had any actual experience live trapping coyotes.
 
I would contact the DNR and get something in writing before I did. You may need some special permit or approval from the town council. Good luck....most urban centers hate trappers...been there done that.

Cheers!!
 
The guy that did some beaver trapping on my property was telling me some of his coyote live trapping experiences. He found a market for live ones and that was great as he didn’t have to skin out the stinky critters any more as his wife wouldn’t let him skin out any more in the attached house garage. He used padded leg hold traps and after getting one, he would lasso it with a stainless cable inside a 8 ft piece of brass water pipe and drag it into a cage trap for transporting to the game farm. Apparently the males are very docile and easy to transfer into the cage but the females require some extra tactics. One day he though he had a male on the noose and after casually releasing the leg trap suddenly found it was an aggressive female with no sense of humour and it was all over the place on the end of the noose and him on the other end of his now rapidly bending brass pipe. It was funny listening to his recollection especially with his newfie accent.

He said he tried trapping them directly into the cage trap and couldn’t convince any to get inside. We both tried to get foxes into a cage trap without any success either.
 
If you could expand the scope of your permission to shoot in town, you could use that to get your trapping license (just need permission on private land) and then not have to worry about the 2 tag/year limit - provided you are working within the areas you have permission, and do not exceed any quotas on your license.
 
We brought Slim Pederson up from Montana to pick his brain about coyote trapping awhile back. He's a cool old cat, knows every high number coyote man in the fricken world, has done little in his mid 70 years long life except trap coyotes year-round and has written maybe 7 books on the subject. Its like talking to a living history book . There is a lucrative live market for un-injured coyotes and more than a little effort has been put into it.

Slim (Larry) says he has caught exactly 2 coyotes in cage traps in his life; and still suspects that someone stuck the first one in there to mess with his head.
 
When I read the first post in this thread I was chuckling to myself, wondering "What the &%$# does this guy think he's gonna do with a live coyote?"

Now you guys are saying there is a market. Who buys them? And what for?
 
jjohnwm said:
When I read the first post in this thread I was chuckling to myself, wondering "What the &%$# does this guy think he's gonna do with a live coyote?"

Now you guys are saying there is a market. Who buys them? And what for?
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Thy are sold to guys with running pens to train hound dogs
 
Any foothold type traps, laminated or offset jaw are live traps. Also, you can add a crushed nut onto a snare, to act as a stopper and prevent strangulation, but I’m not sure if it’s legal, and they tend to beat themselves up pretty bad when caught by the neck but not dead.

Just my two cents, but trapping canids in town is a fools game, you don’t want to be “that guy” when you accidentally catch some guys dog or the envirotards catch wind of what your up too.
 
I have visions of Looney Tewns where Wile E. Coyote would be the human aspect
and the Road Runner being the W.E.C.

Only thing could be setting up a bewbie trapped chicken house.

Or not.
 
gallen270 said:
Any foothold type traps, laminated or offset jaw are live traps. Also, you can add a crushed nut onto a snare, to act as a stopper and prevent strangulation, but I’m not sure if it’s legal, and they tend to beat themselves up pretty bad when caught by the neck but not dead.

Just my two cents, but trapping canids in town is a fools game, you don’t want to be “that guy” when you accidentally catch some guys dog or the envirotards catch wind of what your up too.
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LIVE TRAPS..... Not legholds, not snares, live traps. To keep this on track, has anyone tried this? Thanks to those who responded to the question

http://www.livetrap.com/index.php?dispatch=products.view&product_id=29807
 
Chas said:
LIVE TRAPS..... Not legholds, not snares, live traps. To keep this on track, has anyone tried this? Thanks to those who responded to the question

http://www.livetrap.com/index.php?dispatch=products.view&product_id=29807
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I have no experience with them traps but If I were to try this...It would be like this

I would spread the bait, inside and outside the trap. Lots of it....I guess my train of thought would be to get the coyotes conditioned to get a free meal around the trap hoping eventually they get comfortable enough to not only eat what's outside the trap but eventually venture into the trap and catch em..... It would probably take some time (weeks of continuous bating) before the comfort level was high enough to venture into the trap but eventually with time on your side, you would win.
Best of luck,
 
The MNR live traps 'yotes for research. It can be done. I believe they use some sort of leg or foot hold trap or snare, but I have never seen it done.
Using a setup like that in a municipality is sure to catch some donkeys purebred mutt that's not supposed to be loose but is, and get you sued though.
 
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