Bit the hand that free,d him

[micky 3,325]

I was out this morning at 4, 30. checking some rabbit snares in a corn field,the first had been snapped quite close to the eyelet,the second had caught a head,i carried on along the hedgerow and found a few snares pushed aside but no rabbits.I walked further down the field to where i had some bodygrips, and a few more snares set in the tram lines,i was resetting a trap that had been fired [but no catch] when i heard a fox barking,i looked up and saw a fox jumping up and down whilst barking [calling] in a agittated way,iwalked up to were she had been, and found i had caught two cubs, ten yards apart.Both were dancing round,and snapping there teeth at me.I put my boot on the wire and pulled the tealer towards me, trying to trap his head against my foot so i could grab his scruff and release him,but as i was doing this the wire snapped, and he was gone,i used the same method on the second cub and managed to collar him and get the snare off but while doing so it turned its head and nailed me through the wrist drawing blood,the ungrateful little tinker.

though there were a lot of rabbits here ,they are now thinned right down,its not often i see or catch a young rabbit in this field nowdays,its just old does and the odd buck,and these are snared during the day,because with two litters of cubs in the area it must to dangerous to go out at night.

PS

The cubs were caught in normal peg snares set at 6 1/2 inch. micky

[Rolfe 2]

With the higher (and correct) setting of around 6.5 inches and using the bigger loop..........there is always the slight risk of catching fox cubs. This is why Snareman devised the breakaway snare........so any non-target species accidently caught could quickly free themselves. It would make sense if snaring this area again to use the Breakaway system to avoid the same problem happening again.

If you think the bite from a fox cub is bad...........wait till you get one from a badger........believe me you wouldn't be in a hurry to catch another

 

Rolfe.

[Guest little_lloyd]

Yes Rolfe,, i have caught fox cubs in rabbit snares while out for rabbits and not cubs,, But the hoop wires are good at catching little foxes.

[ianrob 2]

I was out this morning at 4, 30. checking some rabbit snares in a corn field,the first had been snapped quite close to the eyelet,the second had caught a head,i carried on along the hedgerow and found a few snares pushed aside but no rabbits.I walked further down the field to where i had some bodygrips, and a few more snares set in the tram lines,i was resetting a trap that had been fired [but no catch] when i heard a fox barking,i looked up and saw a fox jumping up and down whilst barking [calling] in a agittated way,iwalked up to were she had been, and found i had caught two cubs, ten yards apart.Both were dancing round,and snapping there teeth at me.I put my boot on the wire and pulled the tealer towards me, trying to trap his head against my foot so i could grab his scruff and release him,but as i was doing this the wire snapped, and he was gone,i used the same method on the second cub and managed to collar him and get the snare off but while doing so it turned its head and nailed me through the wrist drawing blood,the ungrateful little tinker.

though there were a lot of rabbits here ,they are now thinned right down,its not often i see or catch a young rabbit in this field nowdays,its just old does and the odd buck,and these are snared during the day,because with two litters of cubs in the area it must to dangerous to go out at night.

PS

The cubs were caught in normal peg snares set at 6 1/2 inch. micky

A book I read a few years back said that terrier pups should be started on rottens (rats) stots (stoats) tods (foxes) then brocks obviously badgers. The auther pointed out that if a brock latched onto you, then they'd be something missing by the time you got him off. Just as well it was a tod.

[fish 148]

I was out this morning at 4, 30. checking some rabbit snares in a corn field,the first had been snapped quite close to the eyelet,the second had caught a head,i carried on along the hedgerow and found a few snares pushed aside but no rabbits.I walked further down the field to where i had some bodygrips, and a few more snares set in the tram lines,i was resetting a trap that had been fired [but no catch] when i heard a fox barking,i looked up and saw a fox jumping up and down whilst barking [calling] in a agittated way,iwalked up to were she had been, and found i had caught two cubs, ten yards apart.Both were dancing round,and snapping there teeth at me.I put my boot on the wire and pulled the tealer towards me, trying to trap his head against my foot so i could grab his scruff and release him,but as i was doing this the wire snapped, and he was gone,i used the same method on the second cub and managed to collar him and get the snare off but while doing so it turned its head and nailed me through the wrist drawing blood,the ungrateful little tinker.

though there were a lot of rabbits here ,they are now thinned right down,its not often i see or catch a young rabbit in this field nowdays,its just old does and the odd buck,and these are snared during the day,because with two litters of cubs in the area it must to dangerous to go out at night.

PS

The cubs were caught in normal peg snares set at 6 1/2 inch. micky

A book I read a few years back said that terrier pups should be started on rottens (rats) stots (stoats) tods (foxes) then brocks obviously badgers. The auther pointed out that if a brock latched onto you, then they'd be something missing by the time you got him off. Just as well it was a tod.

if a brock got hould of you bud you would know all about it.i know iv seen it

[woodga 170]

snareman has an a 4 size picture of me taken years ago with two cubs taken in peg wires which were set to catch the cubs on a banking amongst bracken the vixen was shot and the cubs were mopped up in snares very effective for catching youngsters ,but as rolfe has said breakaways in areas where the possibility of non target animals is the way to go times have changed

[snareman 3]

snareman has an a 4 size picture of me taken years ago with two cubs taken in peg wires which were set to catch the cubs on a banking amongst bracken the vixen was shot and the cubs were mopped up in snares very effective for catching youngsters ,but as rolfe has said breakaways in areas where the possibility of non target animals is the way to go times have changed

the pegged rabbit snares set higher in longer grass are deadly for picking up fox cubs out prowling on their own , so is the hoop snares , only they are usually dead in them, they don,t seem to have the sense to bite the wire, i,ve caught adults around the muzzle and they were also held as they couldn,t bite the wire , i never release them , as they will only become a problem later , but if using breakaways they escape themselves. one of my old mentors WILLIE MAC, snared a couple fox cubs many years ago , and they were used in that film the belstone fox.