Mountain Beavers

[Kit Carson]

Helped someone out with a few mountain beavers. Going to keep updating as the job continues 

[JakeLand]

 

[ouchfoss]

Very cool! 
They look friendly. I wonder if you could pet them.   

[jackmaster]

The funnest critters to trap as a kid

[Machias]

 

[Oldguy]

Very cool! 
They look friendly. I wonder if you could pet them.   

When in my youth, I was delivering the morning paper on my route in Seattle and came upon one of these cute little guys. I poked him with one of my rolled up papers and was rewarded with a shredding demonstration. Glad it wasn't my fingers!

[wags]

I saw a dog that got tore up by one once.
They haven't survived since Eocene (30 m.y. ago) by being wimps.

[ouchfoss]

I saw a dog that got tore up by one once.
They haven't survived since Eocene (30 m.y. ago) by being wimps.

I've heard about them tearing up dogs before and somehow last year my tabby house cat killed and brought one up on the porch for her kittens!    It didn't look like a full size adult but I would think it would normally still kick the ass of most cats.

[NRA4LIFE]

I've been very successful trapping the burrowing devils using what they are eating for bait.  Usually rhodies, fir bows, dahlias, etc.  I also have found that by dumping used cat litter down their holes will deter them from that area (and move onto the neighbors property). 

[Blsum]

 

[Stickerbush]

I have these guys in my yard. Kind of an unknown animal

[jasnt]

Glad I live in the sticks. Everything can be settled with the 22 around these parts lol

[JakeLand]

Glad I live in the sticks. Everything can be settled with the 22 around these parts lol

  but still fun to trap them and make a dime off it too!!!

[billythekidrock]

Used to leg hold trap them when we were kids.

[jackmaster]

It was the first critter we ever trapped as kids, my dad taught us how to make a snare that actually yanked them up into the air, sometimes we would only have a foot in the snare but when we caught them by the neck they would be dead sometimes  they can get.pretty vicious, like a wild kitty cat , they would even make a gruntn noise..

[Cylvertip]

Anyone know why they are nicknamed "Boomers"

[Kit Carson]

Got some more of the little bastages. Got a funny pic of one looking at me

[bear hunter]

 

[ouchfoss]

Very cool.
Part of me wonders if you could stick a carrot through the cage and feed him like a domestic rabbit.  would he nibble away like a bunny or would he go psycho and tear it apart thinking it was your finger.

[Kit Carson]

Trapped a few more of these guys lately...Check out those claws in the first pic 

[Kit Carson]

Little guy today

[Skyvalhunter]

pound for pound toughest critter out there

[Stump]

Trapped them for years for the local timber company's. Had one bite the end off a white ox glove once. Never used a live trap. Used a conibear no. 4 on them.  Would get 50 to 70 off a average clear cut.  Real fun.

[PolarBear]

My cousin and I use to trap them for Simpson. We got $5 each back in the 80s.

[Humptulips]

Anyone know why they are nicknamed "Boomers"

I watched a show about Appalachia and the locals were talking about boomers. Apparently it is an old term used for some kind of small rodents or squirrels in certain parts. Not sure what the actual animal they were calling boomers back there as they never showed one. I think it was just a catch all for all small furry animals. It also might well have been ground hogs. I am not sure.
Anyway I suppose some of those folk settled in parts of OR and used the same lingo and it stuck.

[Kit Carson]

A lot of burrows at this place. Got one so far

[JakeLand]

  keep it up  !!

[jackmaster]

I seriously have a lot of mountain beaver around my place if you ever get to graham and want a place to set your traps

[brush hunter]

Oh that kind of mountain beaver.

[JakeLand]

Oh that kind of mountain beaver.