The Trapping Blog

We Were Hibernating!

jennabettendorf — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 01:53:32 +0000

I just got a comment from someone named Robert who suggested we post more often. Well, I just wanted to let you all know that we were hibernating. Really. We stayed inside all winter and watched movies on Netflix. Pretty fun stuff but I’m excited to get back outside and I’m sure Jacob is too. So look forward to more posts this year. We’re going to set the trap tomorrow if the weather is good!

Jenna

I will now give a hearty welcome to…

jennabettendorf — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 17:44:07 +0000

Jacob Bettendorf! Glad to have you here with us, Jacob. We’re all looking forward to your first blog post here at the Trappping Blog.

-Jenna

We caught something!!!

jennabettendorf — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 14:39:03 +0000

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

Welcome to The Trapping Blog

jennabettendorf — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 17:31:18 +0000

This is where my brother and I will blogging about what we trap. My brother recently recived a Hav-A-Hart box trap for his birthday and we set it a few times. We caught two opossums so far, but I’ll let Jacob do the first real post.

You can check out my blog at http://jennabettendorf.wordpress.com

Remember, we’ll both be blogging here.

-Jenna

Hello world!

jennabettendorf — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 17:18:32 +0000

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