get a dog pruf coon trap, they sell them in most trapping catalogs or get a copy of fur-fish & game magazine. I have some that were called the egg trap, another is called duffers dog pruf coon trap. A coon has to reach into a small hole and pull back on the bait to trigger it. I have caught alot of coon with them and never a dog or cat. I bait it with cotten balls soaked in mollasses.