I'm thinking acetylene and a match.

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Take your bait and put it into a wire box that you can secure to the top, back of your trap. The animal will have to go all the way into the trap, and will trip the door while they're tying to figure out why they can't just pull the bait off the ceiling.

Ive done that but secured to the bottom, I will try the top as well.

I have caught two skunks so thankfully my bait worked on the primary animal I was concerned with. Now I need to figure out something the raccoons are more interested in and figure out if I need a larger trap to get them to go inside.

Your bait must not be very enticing. None of those critters looked smarter than the trap, except for the cat maybe.

Thankfully the skunks have been both stupid and interested.

Skunk season starts Nov 1st.

So you are saying i am lucky to be getting rid of them now?