Dispatching K9s and remakes

[Dan Mich Trapper]

Can someone explain why you need to remove all the bloody dirt from a set before remaking . I understand using a clean trap , but why the dirt ? Its seems blood is an attractant.

[Wackyquacker]

I don't understand the idea of putting a clean trap into the contaminated soil at a remake.  I've never done this.  Now if I move or make a set a distance from the edge of a catch circle I want a clean trap.

As for blood, well I don't know why but I do; I was taught that way.  Blood may simply alert critters to danger.  The question is can a coyote, for example, distinguish between blood coming from it's own kind during a stage of fear, from that of oh a rabbit?  Hard tellin not knowin.  For certian large blobs of blood could distract the critter from the trap site /lure.  I wonder if any have tried using the blood as an attractor at a remake.

[KYtrapper17]

Wacky Quaker said it: Most people are scared the blood will scare the animal. My trapping buddy got snowed out and couldn't check a farm for one day. When he did check it he had a grey fox in a set and it had died for some reason. He could see tracks where other coyotes and fox had inspected the grey fox and he never caught another thing in that set even though it was on a good location. All he could guess that had happened is the dead grey fox educated the other K-9s. It could also happen with alot of blood around a set.

Also I would just use the same trap at a remake. It alredy smells like the dirt all around it so the animal can't pick the trap out from the other smells. It all smells the same. A clean trap could actually mess a remake up if it had any foreign odor on it that stuck out from the surrounding animal smells.

Just my two cents worth.

KYtrapper16

[trappnman]

Do not worry about the blood.

Do not worry about the blood.

I said it twice because it bears repeating.  You don't want a pool of blood over the trap bed, but that rarely happens. Shoot a coyote between the eyes and he will fall with his head away from the trap and bed. Remove him quickly and lay him a short distance aways to bleed out a little. Try to have his head at an angle.  

I remove any blood in the catch circle for one reason- to keep the mess at a minimum. I either scoop underneath it or in some cases just toss dirt over it. anything to keep me from making a mess at the remake.

Blood- even coyote blood- will not spook a coyote. Blood is an attractant. The coyote is not only a predator, but he is a scavenger. As such- blood smell can be nothing but an attractant.  

I strongly suspect that the lack of catches after the one fox was due to other factors, but you never know.