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Post by dennyf on May 18, 2017 8:56:46 GMT -5
Over a year ago I released a small pit bull from a double fox set on our club property. The dog had wandered off from a neighbor's home, that's probably 500 yards from where it was found in the trap. The neighbor's daughter had found her mom's dog, came to us for help (two of us were getting ready to demolish an old club building that morning).
She said she understood the need for trapping, wasn't upset that the dog had wandered onto our property and encountered the traps. I took them back home in our UTV. On the way down the road, the pit bull was licking the back of my neck the entire trip and nuzzeling my ear.
They took the dog to the vet, but all it had suffered was a bruised paw, was fine a week later. Last I'd heard, that dog hasn't left their yard since.
In the 35 years that I've been involved at our sportsmen's club, there has been one other instance of someone's dog finding a trap. That also was a bruised paw result, from a member letting their dog run around by the pond. Since that incident maybe 25 years ago, we've banned sets within 100 yards of the pond.
Nothing to trap there anyway, as I've seen exactly one muskrat near the pond in the past 20 years and that was two years ago.
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Post by Dutch on May 18, 2017 10:41:58 GMT -5
My brother routinely releases non target animals from his sets. No harm. Often find critters sleeping while their paw is in the trap.
In North Carolina, he sells live coyotes. He uses a snare pole to get them out of the trap, puts them in a large dog cage and they are the most docile animal you'd ever want to see. Sometimes has up 4-5 at a time in the cage.
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Post by dennyf on May 18, 2017 12:33:01 GMT -5
You realize this will now show up someplace, as a guy selling 'yotes to the Game Commission, right? smileys-whistling-823718
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Post by Dutch on May 18, 2017 13:30:46 GMT -5
Well, that's who he sells them to. Black helicopter flies down, picks up the yotes and drops them off in PA.
I thought you knew all this???
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