Overview
Unchecked, raccoons can get out of hand quickly, especially when feeding supplements and attractants to your deer populations. Traditional cage-style live traps can be bulky, cumbersome, and hard to carry around, especially if you want to set multiple traps simultaneously. Foot traps can catch more than raccoons and may endanger other animals and pets. The Duke’s Dog Proof Racoon Trap is an ingenious design that is lightweight and engineered to catch raccoons only due to the trigger mechanism needing to be pulled instead of having a pushing pressure applied to it.
Key Product Feautres
Duke Dog Proof Racoon Trap
$13.99- The tubular design and trigger mechanism nearly eliminate the risk of catching animals other than raccoons
- High tension spring system traps and holds even large raccoons
- The small, lightweight design makes it easy to carry several traps in a backpack to trapping locations
What we liked about Duke Dog Proof Raccoon Trap:
These traps are neat because they are small, compact, well-built, and “dog-proof.” You can buy half a dozen of these traps for about the same price as a traditional cage-style live trap. When setting other live traps, I always catch something I don’t want to catch, like skunks, opossums, cats, and potentially other pets. The trigger mechanism on this trap is anatomically designed only to catch raccoons.
The trap requires an animal with small enough paws to reach down the tube and try to pull the bate out. These traps only catch raccoons since raccoons are one of the only animals that can reach in and pull the trigger mechanism, which then causes the spring-loaded trap to close, trapping them by the paw.
Who we think will like this product:
Hunters trying to rid their hunting area of raccoons will like this product, along with trappers or anyone trying to get rid of raccoons that may be getting into pet food or garbage cans, especially if pets are present in areas where you are trapping.
Pro tips:
- Marshmallows make an excellent bait for these traps, and they aren’t messy to deal with
- You can use a flathead screwdriver in a pinch if you don’t have the optional set tool
- Make sure to secure the traps very well, or the raccoons will break the wire and walk off with the trap on their foot
Pros
- Very affordable at $13.99 each
- It nearly eliminates the risk of catching animals other than raccoons
- Lightweight and easy to carry multiple traps to trapping areas
- Well built and easy to use over and over again
Cons
- The springs on these traps can be a little stiff to set. They make an optional tool to help set them, making it a lot easier to set, but it is an additional purchase
- It can only be used for catching raccoons and is not effective if you want to catch other critters like you can with a cage-style live trap
Nick Zinsmeyer
Nick is a lifelong Texan and hunter of native big game, exotic animals, predators, waterfowl, migrator birds, and fur-bearing animals. Nick is an expert in hunting with several legal means, including archery, black powder/muzzleloader rifles, and long-range rifles.
He has hunted in several states across the United States, both on private and public land. He spends most of his time hunting all over Texas, including several years in the storied South Texas Brush Country, Central Texas Hill Country, and West Texas. In addition to hunting across the country, Nick runs wildlife management programs on multiple ranches in Texas, focusing on conservation and quality deer management.
Nick was published in Texas Trophy Hunters magazine in 2020, where he told his story of harvesting a trophy whitetail from a public land drawn hunt, and again in 2022 for a DIY Elk hunt in Arizona where he harvested a 358 net-inch bull.
