Dalmation on duty

You will catch everything but a woodchuck by leaving your hav-a-hart out at night. Woodchucks are not very active at night while possums, raccoons and, Lord help you if you catch one, skunks are.

You are right of course - but I am too lazy to close it down nights - and I am used to setting it at my "woodslot" which is 20 minutes away so I hadn't really thought about your solution. Thanks And BTW, I have caught skunks a few times. Been lucky enough not to get sprayed so far. I come up on the blind end and reach over with a couple rods to open the other end and prop it open. Raccoons were done in here a few years ago by rabies but they are starting to make a comeback.

Raccoons, possums, skunks and now coyotes have always been nightime prowlers in my area. I caught a skunk in a trap set for a muskrat when I was a kid. It was an unforgettable experience.

They missed the opposum and eggs, with hash browns?

They wouldn't be bleary-eyed after that meal. But I b'lieve grits might more correct than h/browns.

I agree on the grits - but don't laugh - my daughter was into road-kill a few years ago. Thank God I haven't heard anything about it in the past couple years. I know she gutted something and had it in my ex-wifes freezer. I didn't discourage her at that particular time.

With opposum gravy and now we eat!

Dang, I looked high and low for a girl like that when I was a youngin' to no avail...always had to teach my girlfriends how to kill em and clean em'. :)