Behaviour of 'Lure' when re-lure not ticked

Issues and bugs
#1

Hi,

Is the ‘Lure’ set to ‘None’ when the ‘Re-lured’ box isn’t ticked?

This seems to be causing issues when we clear a trap (e.g. DOC 150) but don’t replace the lure. The ‘previous lure’ and ‘bait_at_arrival’ seems to be ‘None’ for the subsequent visit even though the existing lure remained?

I think the correct behaviour should be:
If ‘Re-lured’ is not ticked, lure should be set to ‘Previous Lure’ rather than ‘None’
If a lure is actually removed, the procedure is to tick "Re-lure’ and select ‘None’ to reflect an active change in the lure of the trap.

Cheers,

Bruce

#2

Hello -
Yes we have been finding this issue too. When it comes to running reports and doing statistical analysis its a bit of an issue… Showing us the best bait for catching rats is “none” rather than whatever it had been baited with previously.

Following…

Cheers,
Bonnie

#3

Hi,
I’ve never been sure his this works and I’ve always added the bait. For example when I have a trap that’s sprung but the bait is still ok. I just put rebaited & what’s in the trap.
Cheers Sarah

#4

Thanks Sarah,

That’s an option but creates its own complications for us as we are testing longer-life lures and want to know when the lure was originally placed. We would rely on the ‘re-lured’ flag to tell us this, so ticking it would make it hard to distinguish real lure updates.

Cheers,

Bruce