Flordia Trapper - Shawn Jones #115

So on the, uh, The high fence places, I'm assuming that's all coyotes then?

Any kind of predator control.

Sometimes they have me, they trap, I'll trap pretty much anything.

Most of those folks like that, they want to focus on raccoons and coyotes.

But if, you know, we have a very liberal bobcat season down here.

And, you know, if I catch a bobcat, then that's a plus.

I have one property owner.

He told me one day, and it's kind of stuck with me, and he's a deer farmer, and he has a very large acreage that's high-fenced.

And he told me that he feeds his animals high-protein deer chow from Purina.

He buys it by the semi-loads because this place is a very big operation.

and he had told me that he had done the numbers and he says if i have 25 feeders and this this high protein deer feed is 30 a bag and i have four coons coming to each feeder each night he said that's 100 coons and if each coon eats eight ounces of feed per night that's a bag of feed a night so if you do the math That feed at that time was $30 a bag.

That comes to $10,900 a year that he's feeding raccoons.

And for these people, this is a business.

And, you know, just like down in Texas or anywhere else, I mean, it's a business.

So anything they can do to curb the debt that they get because of, you know, nuisance wildlife and predation and stuff like that, they're going to do.

The raccoons is a big thing.

I mean, These hunting clubs that I've trapped on, you know, I've got where I've told them, typically they'll run deer feeders all through, you know, beginning like right now, all through hunting season.

And after hunting season's over with, they'll let them run out.

But then they want me to come in there.

And I told them, I said, I can catch coons.

I know how to catch coons.

I bought my wife's engagement ring trapping coons, you know, trails and stuff like that.

But if you want me to knock the problem numbers down, Leave a little extra feed in there.

I mean, I went, I'm very proponent.

I use a lot of DPs and I hit them very heavily.