Live Traps: An Unintended Victim

By: Rosalie Trump

Last week, I wrote an article about the racoon problem we’ve had on our farm and the live traps we’ve used to catch some of them. We have been using marshmallows as bait, which some people have great success with, but so far the only thing I’ve caught using marshmallows is barn cats.

Until yesterday.

We live on 120 acres with our dog, Louie. He is a herding breed, and we have a big cattle pasture, so it isn’t uncommon for him to disappear once in a while to go entertain himself. Yesterday, though, I was starting to get worried. No matter how much I called for him or honked the truck horn, he wasn’t coming back. I checked the farm down the road, I checked the ponds, I checked the pasture . . . no sign of Louie.