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Hello,
A while ago I was trying to trap a litter of feral kittens and when looking into how to catch them all at once, the best that I could find online was to rig a humane trap to close when you pull a string, and then wait for the kittens to go inside. I got them, but it took hours of sitting by the trap waiting, and feeling like Wile-E-Coyote. During the waiting time, the idea for OpenTrap came to me. I spent a bit of time and a few iterations to build this to where it's at. I think that it could be a good solution to trap a specific feral or to trap an entire litter of kittens at once.
Basically this is a remote control trap that lets you know when an animal is inside. I have only tested with a couple of different trap brands, but I believe it should be mountable to any trap (might need some small modifications). I would love to get any feedback from the TNR community on whether or not this is worthwhile and what modifications it might need to be a tool to help people who are working to help animals.
If anybody is reading this in the Dallas/Ft. Worth area and would like to use it, please message me.
(Maybe this forum has an anti-advertising policy and I want to make it clear that I'm not trying to sell anything here, just to get this project into the hands of anybody that it can help)
Cheers,
Roger
A while ago I was trying to trap a litter of feral kittens and when looking into how to catch them all at once, the best that I could find online was to rig a humane trap to close when you pull a string, and then wait for the kittens to go inside. I got them, but it took hours of sitting by the trap waiting, and feeling like Wile-E-Coyote. During the waiting time, the idea for OpenTrap came to me. I spent a bit of time and a few iterations to build this to where it's at. I think that it could be a good solution to trap a specific feral or to trap an entire litter of kittens at once.
Basically this is a remote control trap that lets you know when an animal is inside. I have only tested with a couple of different trap brands, but I believe it should be mountable to any trap (might need some small modifications). I would love to get any feedback from the TNR community on whether or not this is worthwhile and what modifications it might need to be a tool to help people who are working to help animals.
If anybody is reading this in the Dallas/Ft. Worth area and would like to use it, please message me.
(Maybe this forum has an anti-advertising policy and I want to make it clear that I'm not trying to sell anything here, just to get this project into the hands of anybody that it can help)
Cheers,
Roger