Here’s something you don’t see every day: A basketball-dunking sea otter. Eddie, a 15-year-old otter who lives in the Oregon Zoo in Portland, was trained by the zoo’s lead sea otter keeper, Jenny DeGroot, to play basketball in order to help alleviate … [Read More]
Furbearer News
Pro-Trapping Petition on White House Website Counters Anti-Trapping Request
A trapper has created an online petition on the WhiteHouse.gov website to counter a petition created by anti-trappers who want to ban trapping. A poster using the handle L. River Raisin on the popular trapping forum Trapperman.com posted earlier this week … [Read More]
Raccoons Make Home at Top of 150-Foot Crane
A crane operator in Ballard, Wash., found unexpected visitors when he climbed up to the cab of his 150-foot tower crane earlier this week — two raccoons. The construction company called an animal damage control business in to trap the … [Read More]
Video: Raccoons Attack Coyote
Raccoons can be pretty ornery, but something really got under the skin of the two ‘coons that decided to take on a coyote in this trail cam video. The video comes from Full Draw Hunt’s Facebook page. “A good … [Read More]
Wolf Killed in Kansas Is First Documented in State Since 1905
Coyote hunters shot an animal in northwest Kansas this December that they later believed was too large to be a coyote. It turns out they were right. Following tissue testing, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has confirmed that the … [Read More]
New Jersey Town Holds 75th Annual Muskrat Dinner
About 250 people dined on rodent this weekend at the 75th Annual Muskrat Dinner in Lower Alloways Creek, N.J. The annual event, which is organized by the Lower Alloways Creek Township Fire Company, is a part of the town’s history. “Muskrat identifies with our … [Read More]
Japan Officials Consider Introducing Wolves to Control Deer Population
By Alan Clemons This story out of Japan just seems too weird to be true. Japan, if you didn’t know (and we didn’t!) has a big population of deer. Not whitetails, but sika deer. Apparently they’re so great in number … [Read More]
Russia Paying for Top Wolf Hunters
Russia has a wolf population problem, and it’s willing to pay hunters to help control it. Wolf packs have been moving closer and closer to Siberian towns in recent years to prey on livestock, including horses and domesticated reindeer, according to … [Read More]
Washington Man Attacked by Three Coyotes
A Washington man was attacked by three coyotes in his own backyard in late December. Faron Scarberry, of Kent, Wash., was with his dog when the coyotes ambushed him. “They were coming around the bush and I guess they were … [Read More]
High School Students Build Bear Trap for Pennsylvania Game Commission
The York County, Pa., Game Office does not have a bear trap so local high school students are building one for them. About a dozen students in the Agricultural Mechanics class at the Dover Area High School are building the … [Read More]