List of baits for trapping

Armadillo- Meal worms, other worms, or insects enclosed in a little cloth bag, maggots, sardines, fish.
Birds Sunflower seeds or scratch grain.

Cat or Bobcat- Fish, meats, oil of catnip, sardines. Poke holes in sardine can top, dribble juice up to trap, put can behind trigger.

Chipmunks- Prune pits, unroasted peanuts, corn, sunflower seeds, peanut butter, cereal, grains, popcorn.

Dogs, Coyotes- Old meat, dog food.

Fox, Red and Gray- Rancid fish or meat.

Gophers- Peanut butter mixed with molasses, spread on whole wheat bread.

Groundhog- Any kind of green vegetable, fresh string beans, sweet corn, lettuce, peas, broccoli.

Mink- Chicken head and entrails, fresh fish, fish oil scent, fresh liver.

Nutria- Muskmelon or cantaloupe rind, ripe bananas.

Opossum- Vegetables, sweet apples, chicken entrails, sardines, crisp bacon, canned cat food, almost anything edible will work.

Otter- Fish

Porcupine- Apples, salt, carrots.

Rabbit- Fresh vegetables, such as brussel sprouts, cabbage, carrots, lettuce, or apples. In winter time, bread is a good bait. Spraying the inside of the trap with apple cider has also proved effective.

Raccoon- Anything of a fishy nature: Sardines, raw fish, etc. Smoked meat, sweet corn or fruit, molasses, peanut butter or honey, peanut butter on raison bread, crisp bacon, marshmallows, strawberry licorice, persimmons, fruit filled breakfast bars.

Rats- Large Cheese, bread and butter, small nuts, cherry pits, oatmeal, sunflower or similar seeds, mixed peanut butter and oatmeal, gum drops, flour.

Ringtail or civet cats- Same as raccoon.

Skunk- Almost anything edible, chicken entrails, fish, fresh or canned, insect larvae, crisp bacon, eggs.

Snapping Turtle- Freshly chopped fish or freshly chopped chicken entrails, also any whole fresh fish pieces and sometimes hot dogs will do.

Squirrels- Cereals, nuts, popcorn, crackers, peanut butter or molasses on bread, field corn, oatmeal grains.

Voles- Peanut butter mixed with molasses spread on whole wheat bread.

Weasels- Fish, fresh liver, chicken entrails.

Woodchuck- Any kind of green vegetable, fresh string beans, sweet corn, lettuce, peas.