For successful trapping of nuisance animals, wildlife, stray pets you should not only use the correct live trap but also bait and place the trap correctly. Learn the habits of your targeted animal: what foods it eats and the trails it uses to locate its food. Safeguard recommends that you immerse your trap in boiling water or place it outdoors in the sunshine for several days to help remove any unwanted scents. These unwanted scents can easily repel your targeted animal pest from your live trap. When carrying, setting or baiting your trap, wear gloves to hide your scent from animals. Human scent will scare many animals from your trap. You also do not want to handle animal bait with your bare hands.

Wear Gloves When Transporting, Setting Trap
Select Proper Trap for Animal
Do Not Handle Bait with Bare Hands
Use Correct Bait for Target Animal
Place Trap in Known Trails of Target Animal
Make Sure Trigger of Trap is Set Properly

This bait guide is provided as a basic, assuming that you are not quite sure what the animal you need to trap is eating.

Cat	Fish, meat, cat food.
Chipmunk	Peanut butter, popcorn, grains, sunflower seeds.
Dog	Dog food, meat, bones
Fox	Chicken entrails, prepared scented bait, mice.
Gopher	Peanut butter and bread.
Martin	Chicken entrails, fish, liver, vegetables, apples, crisp bacon
Mink	Chicken entrails, fish, liver, vegetables, apples, crisp bacon.
Muskrat	Apples, carrots, parsnips.
Porcupine	Apples, salt, carrots.
Rabbit	Fresh vegetables like Brussels sprouts, cabbage, carrots, lettuce, apples, bread.
Raccoon	Fish, sweet corn, crisp bacon, marshmallows.
Rat	Peanut butter, cheese, grain, sandwich meat.
Skunk	Entrails of chicken, fresh and canned fish.
Squirrel	Peanut butter, sunflower seeds, oatmeal, bread.
Weasels	Fish, fresh liver, chicken entrails.
Woodchuck	String beans, corn, lettuce, peas, apples.

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