"Derek Turner" wrote in message
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On Sun, 5 Oct 2003 11:02:41 +0100, Jane Ransom
wrote:


have to bait it, cover it so it looks like a tunnel, the silly beggars
have
this desire
to go into tunnels.

Alan, do they do mail order and how much is a trap??

Jane, you need a number 4 Fenn trap, available from any gunsmith or
most agricultutral supplies for about £6.25 each or £74 a dozen.
Using bricks make a chamber big enough for the trap to operate in,
with a pipe at either end to make it 'inviting', set trap and cover
chamber with a roofing tile. IME no need to drown a rat or squirrel
caught in a fenn trap, they've always been dead already.

Fen obviously make different forms of trap, is the one you are talking
about a break-back trap?

If so, I would be reluctant to use it, in case it were either a cat or
hedgehog
which had wandered into it, cats don't often get caught, but it is common to
find hedgehogs in them.

The trap I was advised to use is a cage, the squirrel remails alive, unless
there are lots of foxes about, we have had two killed, in the traps, by
foxes,
the result is not a pleasant sight.

NB1 traps MUST be checked every 24 hrs at least (by law) if you're
going away, leave them unset
NB2 make sure its a good heavy tile, we wouldn't want curious cats
getting their paws caught, would we?

For some reason sqirrels just can't resist running through the tunnel
vbg

hth
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Derek Turner

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