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Live Trap Resets For Multiple Catches
Trapper Matt Uhlik decided it wasn't efficient to drive around every day to check traps for one animal, so he designed a trap to catch multiple animals at a time.
    The Uhlik Repeating Live Trap consists of a holding cage with a sheet metal box and trigger plate on top. The Greenleaf, Kan., inventor created a trigger that resets itself after an animal is trapped.
    Bait is placed on the trigger and, when the raccoon, possum or another animal goes for the bait, it sets off the trigger and dumps the animal in the cage.
    Uhlik has caught everything from tomcats to raccoons to possums to skunks
sometimes he finds a couple different species in the cage. Confinement seems to change their aggressive nature as he had three tomcats at one time and a cat and skunk another time, and there was no apparent sign of fighting.
    Uhlik uses cat food as bait. The first day he sets up the cage he doesn't set the trigger, and visiting critters get a free meal. The next day, he sets the trigger.
    He has also designed a smaller version to catch rats and smaller animals.
    Both versions are patent-pending, and Uhlik is working with a local fabricator to make traps. They will be available for sale sometime in early 2011; the price has not yet been determined.
    Uhlik invites interested trappers and distributers to contact him.
    To see the trap in action check out the Youtube video: uhlik trap 2 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7tflENb19c).
    Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Matt Uhlik, 610 2nd St., Greenleaf, Kan. 66943 (ph 785 747-2221; uhlikmapa@yahoo.com).


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2011 - Volume #35, Issue #1