grumpy
Well-known member
I wear many hats.
Some, I share.
Others, I don't.
If you don't approve, I'm sorry.
It's necessary, it's vital, it's an acceptable method of
animal control in its most basic form.
I've studied this tradition since I was eight years old.
The rudiments were taught to me by my one and only Hero, my Grandfather.
Wild creatures are highly adaptable and will live unseen for years around people.
Yet, they impact our lives and often it is in a violent form or fashion.
I receive dozens of calls every year to "deal-with" these problems.
Fifty-plus years of experience and learning have allowed me
to become quite proficient and very effective in this vanishing art.
Regardless of popular opinion....this is an art.
When families around town begin losing their favored small pets,
I'm usually the one that they call. Pictured below are the results of my efforts.
Small kittens and puppies, little toy-dogs began disappearing from the
south end of town. Their screams of agony could be heard in the darkness
when their owners had let them out to go 'potty'. I got a phone call.
This big bruiser had snatched several puppies and kittens about three
miles to the west of me. Plus, it had killed and eaten several small lambs.
I went and did some scouting. Finally, I located the bottleneck in the timber he was using.
He wasn't a happy camper when I walked up on him.
I work a lot on federal ground. Usually it's very late in the season after
most of the upland bird and small game seasons are closed. These cats are
apex predators and take a large number of fawns and wild-turkey poults.
They will decimate wild rabbit populations and begin hunting small domestics. cats/dogs.
I had my oldest son with me and one of his buddies from school.
Every year, I'm invited to the high-school to give seminars on this sport.
On one morning's check, I had a dear friend along with me.
He's also an administrator at the high school. We had a mixed/bag that morning.
Two 'old-farts' havin' a blast.
The largest cat I've taken thus far was a 42-pound tom.
YES!! We do have mountain lions and I do target them when they become a threat to folks or their livestock.
I've not "caught-and-held" one....yet. Someday, I fully expect to have one on the trap line.
That...will be an interesting occurrence.
I also work very closely with farmers when they have problems with beaver
damming up small creeks and flooding their crop land. They can do literally
tens-of-thousands of dollars worth of damage when they're not controlled.
The largest one caught to date was a 78 pound boar.
Thanks for lookin'.
Grumpy
Some, I share.
Others, I don't.
If you don't approve, I'm sorry.
It's necessary, it's vital, it's an acceptable method of
animal control in its most basic form.
I've studied this tradition since I was eight years old.
The rudiments were taught to me by my one and only Hero, my Grandfather.
Wild creatures are highly adaptable and will live unseen for years around people.
Yet, they impact our lives and often it is in a violent form or fashion.
I receive dozens of calls every year to "deal-with" these problems.
Fifty-plus years of experience and learning have allowed me
to become quite proficient and very effective in this vanishing art.
Regardless of popular opinion....this is an art.
When families around town begin losing their favored small pets,
I'm usually the one that they call. Pictured below are the results of my efforts.
Small kittens and puppies, little toy-dogs began disappearing from the
south end of town. Their screams of agony could be heard in the darkness
when their owners had let them out to go 'potty'. I got a phone call.
This big bruiser had snatched several puppies and kittens about three
miles to the west of me. Plus, it had killed and eaten several small lambs.
I went and did some scouting. Finally, I located the bottleneck in the timber he was using.
He wasn't a happy camper when I walked up on him.
I work a lot on federal ground. Usually it's very late in the season after
most of the upland bird and small game seasons are closed. These cats are
apex predators and take a large number of fawns and wild-turkey poults.
They will decimate wild rabbit populations and begin hunting small domestics. cats/dogs.
I had my oldest son with me and one of his buddies from school.
Every year, I'm invited to the high-school to give seminars on this sport.
On one morning's check, I had a dear friend along with me.
He's also an administrator at the high school. We had a mixed/bag that morning.
Two 'old-farts' havin' a blast.
The largest cat I've taken thus far was a 42-pound tom.
YES!! We do have mountain lions and I do target them when they become a threat to folks or their livestock.
I've not "caught-and-held" one....yet. Someday, I fully expect to have one on the trap line.
That...will be an interesting occurrence.
I also work very closely with farmers when they have problems with beaver
damming up small creeks and flooding their crop land. They can do literally
tens-of-thousands of dollars worth of damage when they're not controlled.
The largest one caught to date was a 78 pound boar.
Thanks for lookin'.
Grumpy
