No, not me personally, but the Terrierman web site got a mention and a nice quote in this article from The Anchorage Daily News.
The article also came with the excellent graphic appended to the right (click picture to enlarge).
Note that trap release and other useful dog health and hunting-with-terrier information can be had from the book American Working Terriers
And, since I have at least one reader in Alaska, let me note that there is a meeting to discuss "Shared Trails: Dogs, Humans and Trapping" on February 7th from 7-9 at Lidia Selkregg Chalet, Russian Jack Springs Park in Anchorage.
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The article also came with the excellent graphic appended to the right (click picture to enlarge).
Note that trap release and other useful dog health and hunting-with-terrier information can be had from the book American Working Terriers
And, since I have at least one reader in Alaska, let me note that there is a meeting to discuss "Shared Trails: Dogs, Humans and Trapping" on February 7th from 7-9 at Lidia Selkregg Chalet, Russian Jack Springs Park in Anchorage.
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7 comments:
Thanks so much for posting this. I lost a dog to a Conibear trap 15 years ago. It was set next to the road we walked on and baited with meat. I had no idea how to open it and my poor beautiful guy suffocated in my arms.
Can I use this diagram in my pet first aid classes?
Sure -- the newspaper will not care and some free text and other details here >> http://www.terrierman.com/traprelease.htm
Patrick
Thanks so much!
BTW - I finally got off my duff and ordered the book today. I look forward to a few nights curled up by the fire with it and the dogs.
Patrick, I've been using your conibear instructions for *years* to teach SAR dog handlers this skill. I went out and bought one of every kind of trap, and have handlers practice opening them all.
Traps are cheap. It's very worthwhile to get one and try this if you spend any time in woods and fields with a working or hunting dog, or a hiking companion.
Patrick,
You have at least two readers in Alaska, except that those of us who don't live in the big city of Anchorage don't really consider living in Anchorage to be living in Alaska.
Thanks to you, I decided to experience the miracle of democracy that is the Alaska caucuses last night. I hadn't entirely decided who to vote for going in, but that's the whole point of caucusing, right? Well, about 10 times as many people showed up as were planned for and the place was a mob scene. After almost two hours of milling around, the fabled fan-out finally began. When I heard that Obama's corner was the one nearest the door, that sealed my vote. So, in a way, your blog was responsible for my tiny contribution to your candidate's primary success in my state.
Thanks for the trap release instructions page too. That one's a keeper.
Yahoo Alaska, you made my day. We take our wins any way we can get 'em. And for sheer story value alone, the caucus was worth it, eh? You've got that one to tell for years.
Patrick
Well, not a conibear, but yesterday I AGAIN had to remove a shrieking dog from an (illegally set) coyote trap.
I remember when I took my state-mandated hunter-trapper education class. It was me (30-something broad) and about 100 12-year-old boys and their dads. The boys were itching to go out and shoot Bambi, and the instructors' jobs were essentially to keep them from shooting one another in the process. But there was the required segment on trapping. The instructor was proselytizing the joys of trapping to the indifferent multitudes. He was questioned by a boy who wondered about the animals suffering for up to 24 hours in the trap. The instructor *swore* that animals felt *no pain* in the trap. The boys were unconvinced.
I suppose someone should tell poor Eddie that he was mistaken yesterday, and should not have been screaming in such a blood curdling manner while I ran to him, and then (goddammit!) fumbled to get my snowshoes off so I could release the @!%$# trap.
I'll mention to him that the bleeding was over-the-top, and that he must certainly stop the dramatic limping and swelling as well. He was only in the trap for about 2 minutes, and coyotes feel no pain in a whole 24 hours of it.
Trap was 20' off a well-traveled ski and hiking trail, and baited for canids. No name on the trap. Evidence in the snow -- no one had visited the trap in at least 48 hours. How do ye violate the law? Let me count the ways. But I've never been able to interest the Game Commission in enforcement when I find these things.
Tragically, the trap was irreparably damaged by my boots -- as I removed it from Eddie's foot, mind you.
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