The first step in our comeback strategy was to set more traps. Trying to sneak up on them was turning out to be too unproductive because the dogs came at such random times. Here's a pic of getting the traps ready by boiling them to take the oil and scent off.
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| From 2013-03-12 |
The next step was to walk the fence line and find all the places the dogs were getting in and proceed to close all of them up except two. The idea was to channel the dogs/coyotes to two easy entrances where I had placed the traps.
It worked better than I could've hoped for. In a matter of days we were able to finish them off and I haven't seen a dog on the game cams for several weeks. Below is where one of the traps is set. Hopefully it's as invisible to the dogs and coyotes as it is to humans.
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| From 2013-03-12 |
I've also been working on a new trail idea I had a while back. The idea was to create a meadow trail that connected all the meadows that are scattered through the thick brush. Some of them are quite pretty but impossible to get to in the summer without a chainsaw or a machete.
Here's a pic of the bottomless sinkhole which is along the trail. It actually does a have a bottom, but it's so deep that it's tough to see. We like to see how daring we are and jump across it from time to time.
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| From 2013-03-12 |
The trail doesn't look like much at this point, but as we cut and clear, it'll start taking shape.
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| From 2013-03-12 |
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