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I have been very successful in trapping foxes. Get a dead horse or colt; drag it to a place where red foxes are known to roam. Leave it there for a time until you have evidence of foxes partaking therefrom. Then is the time to set your traps about the animal; attach each trap to a clog or drag, it must not be too heavy as you don’t want a trapped animal scaring away other fox coming into your set. Cover with weeds, grass and snow. I’ll bet you will have at least one fox or coyote trapped every time you check your set.
Other times when setting traps, I use ashes from burnt wheat straw. I take a piece of newspaper, just enough to cover the trap, and sprinkle ashes about one inch on the paper which covers the steel trap. On top of this I take just enough snow to make the set look natural.
I’ve caught foxes in traps set in a pile of ash. They come to a burnt straw stack because large numbers of mice generally are found there, and these the foxes eat.
Submitted by G. Halvorson
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