These pictures are from last year. We were only able to trap muskrats for a week or two because it got really cold and then decided to dump snow on us when we started setting muskrat traps. The weather really worked against us last year. I'm hoping it cooperates a bit more with us this year.
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| This is where a muskrat pushes up foliage to make a little lunching and munching pad. |
You can see them on the top of lakes. Muskrats push up stuff from the lake and make a little mound. When you chop the top of the little mound off you can reach down and feel a little shelf where they come up to eat. That's where you set the teeny foot trap to catch them.
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| Chop the top of the house off. |
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| Put the trap in and secure it to a cross piece stick with wire. |
Put the chopped piece back on the hole, pour a cup of water over it and then pack it with snow. Super fast and easy. And it's just as easy to check the trap. Chop of the top and carefully pull up the trap to see if there's a muskrat caught.
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| Chop it up again to |
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| Got him! |
They're such a soft fur. They're really easy to skin. What a fun little creature to trap!
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