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..