December 9, 2008 by jennabettendorf
Jacob and I set the trap last night because some of our broilers were found with the heads torn off. (That’s something wild animals do, not domestic dogs, so we know it’s not our dogs.) We set the trap yesterday night with some salmon, hoping to catch the animal that was ridding us of our chickens. We woke up this morning, hoping we hadn’t caught any of our dogs or cats. We went outside and found that we caught… A cat! It wasn’t one of our cats either, it was a stray cat. We know it wasn’t the stray cat that was eating our chickens because we’ve known about it for a long time, and we haven’t had any missing chickens before. And, I think it would have eaten the birds, not just torn off the heads. I think it is a skunk or a coon, because Mom was reading something that said that skunks will tear off the head of their victim and drink the blood out of the body. I don’t remember what made me think it was a coon… But anyway… We caught a cat. :-\
I was also thinking that in the winter, trapping will probably slow down a lot. So there will probably be a lot more activity on here in the spring/summer when the animals come out of hibernation.
I’ll see if I can get Jacob to blog today.
-Jenna