I try to keep the coons away from my deer feeder with the wire traps. I think the name is pied-piper brand. I caught one in a foot hold steel trap that you just drop a marshmallow in the hole. Kind of cruel but it worked. I hate to just kill a critter but when they tear up a deer feeder at about 900.00 dollars a piece and eat the protein pellets at 16.00 for 50lb it kind of changes my mind. When I catch one now a guy comes and gets them to train his coon hounds. He does not bring them back to me. :-laf