No offense, Leaf! As I said, each person has their own way of dealing with predators. Today I had a Small Hawk flying around over my yard, and the Pekins were raising cain. The Hawk never tried dive-bombing, and flew away empty-taloned. I would never shoot a hawk, and my fowl being free-range...
No need to cause a controversy over what to do with the critter once it's been trapped. People are going to do what they want with it regardless. I catch and release in the forest far away because I can, and the critter was only trying to eat an easy meal. I agree that drowning it is a horrible...
Nowadays, many wild critters are wary of those fancy wire cage traps that worked so well in the past.
I guess they are just getting smarter! That being said I tried a trap I found online for the striped varmints that smell so wonderful.
It has worked without fail for me several times, and best...