Makes No Sense.

[neil cooney 10,416]

Beside my chickens I've a fox trap set with a dead grey crow as bait. About 10 yards from that I've a larson with a magpie as a call bird.

This morning here's a vixen sitting in the larson on what's left of a grey crow that was already caught, she'd eaten most of it too.

I've caught plenty of foxes in larsons but why did this vixen push into an already closed trap for a grey crow when she could have easily walked into an open trap for the same meal ?

Was it because the grey crow was alive ?

[Bunny Boiler 177]

Quite possibly. The crow will have squawked and flapped and jumped and drawn a lot of attention, but the dead one wouldn't. She may never have noticed the dead one at all.

[norseman 424]

a fox will try and kill all it can first, then take a carcass and come back for the rest.

 

well the feckers used to do it when they got into me granda's hen house. pure carnage

[The one 8,535]

Aye the live crow was the best bait

[3175darren 1,102]

Snap

I was shocked to see this one never expected it

[neil cooney 10,416]

Nice. I've trapped plenty in larsens but never when there was an open fox trap with the same bait, only dead, a few yards away.

Was that a vixen or a silly cub ?

[3175darren 1,102]

No it was a small dog fox, this was two yr ago, we had a fox trap set,but it was a good 300 yds away with a dead hen in, the call bird was not amused,