It may seem a bit unprofessional to use but what are everyone's feelings on dry dog food as bait for coons, skunks, and opposums?

I went from using commercial baits and lures to plain old dry dog food and my catch rate has gone WAY up. If the animal is still in the yard, I have been getting them on dry dog food. No cats either.

City coons are raised on dog food, and that's how they become a problem.

i use dry dog food in my grizz traps for adc with of course some hardcore lure or green death lure

If you're going to use dog food it's more impressive if you carry it in a container marked in bold letters that says EXTRA SUPER DUPER WORLD CLASS SPECIAL SECRET FORMULA RACCOON LURE.

That sounds familiar Paul.

you forgot the #1 before raccoon lure

I know a lot of trappers that use it.
It works.

Got 22 raccoons on a property in Aug that got tired of feeding the raccoon problem of 3 they started feeding 2 years prior with their own dog food and some anise lure.

In my case they were already used to eating it and was easy to just only put in the cages and no longer on the ground as they were doing before me. So yeah it works.

anyone have a favorite brand? vinke...?

the same brand/type the homeowners use or are feeding the coon with. Seriously.

anyone use for "wild coons"?

Never anything wrong with using what the coons are using. I've had more than a few jobs where the customer reported coons raiding the garbage can so I just reached in the can and grabbed whatever and tossed it in the back of the cage.

Chicken Soup for the Dogs Saul ( puppy formula.....great stuff) or Alley Cat..

Dog food will work in the wild if.....
1. the mice do not get it First
2. you set were the coons "are".......Not a lot of "Carrying Power" without some type of lure.....(IMHO...lol)

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Using a bait that doesn't work is unprofessional

...now how did he know Vinke uses dog food?

The only time dry dog food didn't work for me is when they didn't know it was there.

I knew they didn't visit the cage because we had snow that week- no tracks. (I don't think dry dog food has much of a smell in the dead of winter.) The yard was fully enclosed with wooden fencing, and the coons used the fence tops as traveling highways.

I tried this:

1-Loud salmon-based Lenon's raccoon super call lure to get them to walk on the fence in my trap area.

2-White egg for eye appeal to get them to climb down and actually investigate. (One freebie egg outside trap.)

3-Dry dog food in dixie cups in the cages.

The next day I had a raccoon double.

Thanks Vinke but I gotta tell ya. If you ever make it down this way I'm taking you in and getting that number tattooed on the back of your hand!!! i'll give ya a call when i get back from chasing bears this weekend. there's plenty to go around btw.

Vinke, sent you a PM

Why use dog food when they all prefer CAT food....

Livetrap--wild coons love dog food with fish oil on it, and to keep the mice off it, say, in a bucket/cage, hang the fishy dog food in a grape sack or section of burlap sack

Like Barkstone says, buy fish flavored cat food and avoid the fuss. (I actually find that marshmellows on sale, used with my favorite raccoon lure, is better and cheaper than either)