A drop net consists of a large net, which is often hung from poles, and suspended over a baited target area. The trap must be monitored and when the target animal is under the net, it is either manually or remotely triggered, and drops on the animal. Drop nets were first used to capture game […]
Most people are probably not even aware that there are such a thing as deer traps, but wildlife biologists use a variety of traps to capture deer including box traps, Clover traps (a netted-box trap), drop nets, and drive nets.. Deer, like many trap-shy dogs, are generally not comfortable entering enclosed spaces, so the design
The Cooke County, Illinois, Coyote Project provides some interesting research on observations of coyote attacks on dogs in the Chicago metropolitan area. Using a search of newspaper databases from 1990-2004, they found 70 articles of coyote attacks on dogs. The average number of attacks per year increased from 0-2/yr in 1990 up to 6-14/yr in
