escaped rabbits

[steve0146 0]

Hi. I'm new to snaring and set 10 out yesterday. Went to look this morning and two had the peg still in the ground with some of the cord still on but looked chewed through. The cord is tough para cord so not sure what is going on. The snare and wire tealer were missing. Is this common or am i setting it wrong. do many rabbits chew there way out ??

[osimons89 0]

was the ground ripped up around the tealer, were there and prints or was the ground to hard?

[steve0146 0]

The pegs were still in the ground and the only bits of the cord on it. There was fur around so had a rabbit in it at some point. There are loads of foxes here so that might have something to do with it.

[Rolfe 2]

Rabbits can and do chew through the holding twines on snares........unusual to find two out of ten wires though. Check they haven't been cleanly cut with a knife and someone has pinched your bunnies.

 

Rolfe.

[osimons89 0]

if the rabbit was screaming foxes could have picked them. try a few fox wires round the out side of the area where the rabbit wires are.

[steve0146 0]

I'm thinking someone or their dog has grabbed them. There are loads of foxes here though. I often see them around our bins. Cant really snare them or would end up with someones dog in it.

Edited January 9, 2009 by steve0146

[snareman 3]

Rabbits can and do chew through the holding twines on snares........unusual to find two out of ten wires though. Check they haven't been cleanly cut with a knife and someone has pinched your bunnies.

 

Rolfe.

like rolfe says , it does look suspicous , fur lying around and the twines cut , a fox wouldn,t bite the twines .

[Guest Rod&dog]

Why bother cutting the twine,,When they could just remove the rabbit??????

[Holdaway 2]

Why bother cutting the twine,,When they could just remove the rabbit??????

 

 

Because now they have the snare too.

 

H

[ellir0305 9]

Why bother cutting the twine,,When they could just remove the rabbit??????

 

 

Because now they have the snare too.

 

H

 

then why not pull the whole lot!

[Guest Rod&dog]

Why bother cutting the twine,,When they could just remove the rabbit??????

 

 

Because now they have the snare too.

 

H

 

then why not pull the whole lot!

 

Exaclty,,Why would they take two rabbits and two snares out of ten snares?

[Holdaway 2]

Well if you catch the culprit then you can ask them. Maybe they only saw two snares as they had rabbits in, they may have been out when it was dark.

 

I can't say, it's only speculation.

 

H

[ellir0305 9]

Well if you catch the culprit then you can ask them. Maybe they only saw two snares as they had rabbits in, they may have been out when it was dark.

 

I can't say, it's only speculation.

 

H

 

my first snared rabbit got munched by a fox but thieves are a different matter anyone know where you can get man traps

[ianrob 2]

Rabbits can and do chew through the holding twines on snares........unusual to find two out of ten wires though. Check they haven't been cleanly cut with a knife and someone has pinched your bunnies.

 

Rolfe.

 

 

As Rolfe says check if they've been cut. Did it look like a knife job, or had they been chewed. If they're chewed then it's possibly just bad luck having two chewed through. Though I must say to lose two out of two is extremely odd.

[ellir0305 9]

Rabbits can and do chew through the holding twines on snares........unusual to find two out of ten wires though. Check they haven't been cleanly cut with a knife and someone has pinched your bunnies.

 

Rolfe.

 

 

As Rolfe says check if they've been cut. Did it look like a knife job, or had they been chewed. If they're chewed then it's possibly just bad luck having two chewed through. Though I must say to lose two out of two is extremely odd.

 

if they are chewed you might want to try the glen waters fishing swivel and bent wire pin approach as apposed to the string and peg but as ianrob says thats very uncommon