We had a family of raccoons destroying our back yard. Good grief they were digging holes in the yard every night looking for bugs, and making a racket playing around with each other. I set up the camera on the fence and the jerks would crawl up there and UNTIE the strap and try to haul the camera away! So I obtained an aluminum bar that fit into the square strap holes and SCREWED it to the fence. I made sure there were no screwdrivers lying around or they would have stolen my camera again. I got excellent videos of them sneaking into the traps, reaching over the trigger, and stealing the bait. They knew what was up with that. USDA guy finally gave up and took his useless traps away. I wish I had kept the videos. In one video, the raccoons were playing around like kittens. So here's a photo of the bar that I happened to have from something I disassembled. You can get a bar at the metal scrap yard for cheap or nothing or pay through the nose for one at the hardware store. Remember not to over-tighten the screws and snap the plastic. Plumbers tape might also work, and that would be better for mounting on a tree or fence post.So after they kept messing with my camera strap, I bought a doggie ball and hung it by a strap from the apex of my step ladder, hoping to record the raccoons playing with the ball. Nope! Nothing doing! They looked at that ladder with great suspicion, walking around looking at it from all sides. They just knew it was a trap and wouldn't come near it.