I think it was a coyote set. It was my older setter Gwennie Mae. We busted out of the woods Monday evening, heading for the truck and a cold beer. Moved 8 birds in this run. Came out on a pipe line. Noticed a lot of coyote scat in the sand. Gwen starts howling, blood curlding. I crest the hill and see her pulling on the trap. What is the first thing that enetrs my mind? I should have gone to that seminar Dave Lyons offered last year on trapping and getting your dog out from many of the traps we might run across. I didn't even really read his thread. Well, I got her out very quick, easy to release and it only caught one of her toes. All is well with the dog. She wanted to keep hunting but we were done and I put her up.
So, what are the rules for setting these things? It's not clear in the small hand out of Hunting and Trapping rules. I would think that any legal set that can catch a coyote will or could catch a dog. One thing, and this is something many deer hunters don't do, no tag with name etc. attached to trap. This is listed in the rules. Not that it would matter or make any difference. I came across another trap in the UP 2 weekends back and it wasn't tagged. Fortunately it was already sprung because 2 dogs were giving it too much attention. I have never seen a tree stand properly labled, including the one I came across just prior to this dog in the trap scenario with the screw in steps, half the tree limbs cut off and the pick up truck load of sugar beets. That one was reported along with GPS coordinates.
I pulled the trap and left a note attached, just explaining that my dog was caught. No bitching, just questioning if the man who set it did it properly and if not start being right with things. This was on Wood Rd in Kalkaska County.
So, what are the rules for setting these things? It's not clear in the small hand out of Hunting and Trapping rules. I would think that any legal set that can catch a coyote will or could catch a dog. One thing, and this is something many deer hunters don't do, no tag with name etc. attached to trap. This is listed in the rules. Not that it would matter or make any difference. I came across another trap in the UP 2 weekends back and it wasn't tagged. Fortunately it was already sprung because 2 dogs were giving it too much attention. I have never seen a tree stand properly labled, including the one I came across just prior to this dog in the trap scenario with the screw in steps, half the tree limbs cut off and the pick up truck load of sugar beets. That one was reported along with GPS coordinates.
I pulled the trap and left a note attached, just explaining that my dog was caught. No bitching, just questioning if the man who set it did it properly and if not start being right with things. This was on Wood Rd in Kalkaska County.
