Thursday, June 11, 2009

trapping

Got Bonita at last, with the drop trap. She wouldn't walk into a regular trap, though she'd chin-rub and headbump a trap till it tripped. She was not at all happy; lunged sideways and dragged the trap a bit before I could get a foot on it and cover her up. Then she crept into the trap; I attached my biggest coon-size trap to give her enough room, and she finally worked her way in. Spayed on 10 Jun and came through in fine style, now back with the colony and seems to have forgiven me; she let me tweak her tail as usual when I arrived with breakfast.
I thought she was the last adult, but yesterday I spotted one more. He looks like Yellow Fellow (for whom I mistook him at first) and may be his sibling, so I guess it's back to trapping again this weekend. I hope he's a boy.

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