Before I ever started trapping I had coyotes coming into the yard (feet from the house) I got a good snow fall and found where they were coming under the bottom wire of the fence, I made a homemade snare and snared a yote that night. I left the snare there and never caught another coyote. Thats when I first began to digest how intelligent coyotes are. I found out a short time later (after I had moved) that snares are illegal. So I never set another snare and I never trapped again until last year.
Last year I ran my first line, first animal caught, a pit bull with no collar and looking malnourished for a family pet. I was trapping a mile and a half from the nearest house and the pit was not happy to be in the MB 650.
Next animal a grinner.
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I don't merely watch nature, I choose to participate in it.
"He who dares not offend cannot be honest"
Thomas Paine