Smart weasel-dumb weasel

[gsim]

Recently a friend of mine, Bob Taylor, sent me an illlustrated story of his encounter with a predator. Seems he went to coop one day to find a dead hen. He spotted a tunnel hole and knew it was a weasel that had gotten in to his dirt floor coop. (This is in the upper peninsula area of Michigan) After filling in the hole, he modified a rat trap adding teeth to it. He baited and set it at the entrance to it's burrow under the same building the coop is in.

Later he went out, the trap had been tripped and the bait was gone. While he was looking at the scene, the weasel stuck it's head out of the hole and looked up at him. My friend went back to the house for more bait and his shotgun. He set the bait close to the hole and waited to one side. In a short while, the weasel went for the bait, and 'pop goes the weasel', or rather more like 'boom goes the weasel'.

Gerry

My friend,
Bob with his trophy.

 

[sourland]

My fingers get twitchy as I think of setting that trap.

 

[Lollipop]

I love happy endings........Pop

 

[aprophet]

liver is a good bait the spring that powers the trap can be tighten with a coupla pennies to speed up the trap

 

[theFox]

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And even better is to put the trap in a weasel box.

 

[gsim]

I think he used raw liver for bait.

 

[chkn]

Looks like it might be hell if you goofed up setting the trap!!!

 

[BigDaddy'sGurl]

Funny story! Glad the weasel was dispatched...and although this sounds silly in light of the circumstances, that weasel is really cute! Better dead though, I grant you that.

 

[Lofty Dreams]

It probaly escaped through the wire

 

[gsim]

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Could give new meaning to the word "thumbnail".