Fun To Trap

By Alton K.

I had always thought it would be fun to try trapping.  Then one day my Grandpa told me that he had some traps that I could use.  So I went and got them and set one behind my house for a rabbit.  And I made a hole set for a raccoon, and I set a live trap for a coon also. I went back the next afternoon and I had a small rabbit and a coon in my hole set and my neighbors cat in the live trap.  I went back and reset all of them and I caught a few more coons and a rabbit or two.  My dad was so happy that I had found something to do in my spare time that he was more than happy to help me buy some more traps.  He bought me some mink traps and a few traps that would be good for beaver and bobcat.  I went down to pond behind my Grandpa's house and made a beaver set.  To this day I haven't caught my beaver yet.