I guess I could of been a little more clear on what I was thinking. Yes, you absolutely can catch a fox in a live trap, but if you can catch one out of twenty of them like that, I'd consider you extremely lucky.
That's one way of looking at it and I don't disagree at all, but there is a big difference in a 'kill them all' mentality, and keeping over population under control. In wilderness areas, where there are no roads, farms, or houses, there are predators, but not as many as most people would...
To help cover your sent, boil your traps, or snares, and after they have cooled, take them from the water with hospitle type gloves and drop them in a plastic bag with a few apple slices. Also wash a change of clothing with no detergent and dry them outside on a clothes line. Don't put them on...
Haha, well there are bears, and then there are BEARS. My grandma used to chase black bears off the porch with her broom! I don't recommend that either, lol, but if they don't have cubs around, they'll probably run off. But Grizzlies are a whole nother matter. They are big and bad and mean...
Nope I wouldn't recommend that people do anything illegal, dangerous, or irresponsible. I haven't done any of this stuff for years either. But also keep in mind that where I grew up was in the least densely populated county in the least densely populated state in the US. My father's ranch was...
I used to do a lot of trapping. When I was a teenager and halfway into my 20s, back in the 1970s to the mid 80s, prime winter Rocky Mountain coons were $40 - $50 each, Red Fox was about the same, but Coyotes were $80 - $100 each. We didn't have to go through all the skinning, scraping...