Dang coons that's a bummer when they start doing that and you know they will be back , that's one the reasons why I've went to mostly funnels using the excluder traps and stopped using bait almost compleatly , I have been using baited sets on this one job for over a month now . The people have the only pine trees around and the squirrels where chewing off the branches to build nests like crazy , I set traps up in the tree . I've removed 7 so fare . They called for a pickup Saturday and when I got there the squirrel was gone . The neighbor came over and told me the other neighbor has been coming over and letting them go ,so I moved the traps way up the tree now and out of site using the sidewinder I can just screw it to the tree and no wire needed and will catch two at a time ,when I get one I just simply open the bait door and do a cage transfer into a reg trap so i don't need to unscrew the trap . The customer asked why I had moved the traps so high and then I told her why ,her husband lost it and started off down the street with his wife hanging off him trying to stop him , I don't really bother me I've gotten a custom to it but wish someone would invent a locking system for the trap doors