Most of the canids are very difficult to trap in the absence of footholds - properly prepared at that - or snares. As for cats, we have bobcat here (and lynx, both) i don't know anything about their resiliency. Seems to me cats are not as resilient as coyotes. I've always been a bit disturbed by the idea of the predator hunters going aft…
Most of the canids are very difficult to trap in the absence of footholds - properly prepared at that - or snares. As for cats, we have bobcat here (and lynx, both) i don't know anything about their resiliency. Seems to me cats are not as resilient as coyotes. I've always been a bit disturbed by the idea of the predator hunters going after them. Coyotes, not so much. I had a distant neighbor, he would snare on the order of a hundred on his farm per year. Every year you'd think, geez, he must be just hammering them, that ain't gonna last. Yet every year he'd get another hundred. It was like there was an artesian well out there spouting coyotes. They almost seem supernaturally resilient - and fecund. Good for them!
Most of the canids are very difficult to trap in the absence of footholds - properly prepared at that - or snares. As for cats, we have bobcat here (and lynx, both) i don't know anything about their resiliency. Seems to me cats are not as resilient as coyotes. I've always been a bit disturbed by the idea of the predator hunters going after them. Coyotes, not so much. I had a distant neighbor, he would snare on the order of a hundred on his farm per year. Every year you'd think, geez, he must be just hammering them, that ain't gonna last. Yet every year he'd get another hundred. It was like there was an artesian well out there spouting coyotes. They almost seem supernaturally resilient - and fecund. Good for them!