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HOW I CAUGHT A MINK IN A WEASEL SET | |
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HOW I CAUGHT A MINK IN A WEASEL SET
I had decided to catch some weasels, so I went out in the woods back of our house and set a trap for a pine squirrel, or red squirrel as they are sometimes called. The next morning I had one. I killed, him, took up my trap and went down to the edge of a swamp with both. When I got there I took an old stick and set one end on the ground about three feet from a willow and let the other end lay in the crotch of the willow, which was about three feet from the ground. Next I took my squirrel and tied him to the stick and left him hang down, leaving about nine inches between him and the ground. When that was done I carefully set a No. 1 trap under the squirrel and covered it with leaves, not leaving chain or stake which held strap, exposed. Now, you readers may wonder why I was so careful as to make everything look natural. Well, it is this way. When you are trapping and using bait, maybe there are different kinds of animals that use the same food you are baiting with, and if one of those animals come along, you are apt to catch it, and that is why I am careful in setting my traps.
The next morning when I went out to look at my trap, it held a brown animal instead of a white one, and on getting closer I saw that it was a mink, firmly held by one of the front feet.
Kootenai Co., Idaho.
L. A. Gossage,
Fur, News. Fur News, January 1916.
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