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Index of Subjects ---790415396-1053803698-1358163307=:26869 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable The trap is a weasel box trap. Sometimes people bait them but other times t= hey rely on the weasel's curiousity for investigating holes. And sometimes = they leave a grain trail into the trap and along the floor to attract mice = which act as bait to bring in weasels. =0A=0AThere are videos online and in= fo should you want to build one. I have friends who have used them outside = their chicken coops.=0A=0ANancy=0A=0A=0A=0A=0A_____________________________= ___=0A From: Dusan Soudek <soudekd@ns.sympatico.ca>=0ATo: naturens@chebucto= .ns.ca =0ASent: Sunday, January 13, 2013 12:09:27 PM=0ASubject: [NatureNS] = question re a small-mammal trap=0A =0A=0A=A0=A0=A0 Yesterday, along East Ri= ver in the former Bowater Mersey St. Margaret's Bay District, I found a tra= p of a new-to-me kind. It was located in a wooden box with two exit holes, = each about 5 cm in diameter.=A0The box was the size of a larger shoe box an= d it was placed on the ground. The roof of the box waas easily removeable. = The steel spring trap was inside. The jaws were in the open position but th= ere was no bait. What might be the target species? Red squirrel? Mink? Weas= el? All of the above? =0A=A0=A0=A0 Dusan Soudek ---790415396-1053803698-1358163307=:26869 Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <html><body><div style=3D"color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:ti= mes new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt">The trap is a weasel = box trap. Sometimes people bait them but other times they rely on the wease= l's curiousity for investigating holes. And sometimes they leave a grain tr= ail into the trap and along the floor to attract mice which act as bait to = bring in weasels. <br><br>There are videos online and info should you want = to build one. I have friends who have used them outside their chicken coops= .<br><br>Nancy<br><div><span><br></span></div><div><br></div> <div style= =3D"font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"= > <div style=3D"font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-= size: 12pt;"> <div dir=3D"ltr"> <font face=3D"Arial" size=3D"2"> <hr size= =3D"1"> <b><span style=3D"font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Dusan Soudek= <soudekd@ns.sympatico.ca><br> <b><span style=3D"font-weight: bold;">= To:</span></b> naturens@chebucto.ns.ca <br> <b><span style=3D"font-weight: bold;">Sent:</= span></b> Sunday, January 13, 2013 12:09:27 PM<br> <b><span style=3D"font-w= eight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> [NatureNS] question re a small-mammal tra= p<br> </font> </div> <br><meta http-equiv=3D"x-dns-prefetch-control" conten= t=3D"off"><div id=3D"yiv375794253">=0A =0A <div>=0A =0A =0A <div>=0A = Yesterday, along East River in the former Bowater Mersey= St. Margaret's Bay District, I found a trap of a new-to-me kind. It was lo= cated in a wooden box with two exit holes, each about 5 cm in diameter.&nbs= p;The box was the size of a larger shoe box and it was placed on the ground= . The roof of the box waas easily removeable. The steel spring trap was ins= ide. The jaws were in the open position but there was no bait. What might b= e the target species? Red squirrel? Mink? Weasel? All of the above?=0A <b= r> Dusan Soudek=0A </div>=0A =0A</div>=0A</div><meta htt= p-equiv=3D"x-dns-prefetch-control" content=3D"on"><br><br> </div> </div> <= /div></body></html> ---790415396-1053803698-1358163307=:26869--
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