Beavers, pests or pets???

[BadgeBunny]

OMG, those are the nastiest creatures alive ... A game warden brought one to my dad to fix up after he got tangled up in someone's fishing line (bastards, clean up after yourselves if you lose your line ... sheesh). Anyway, being the slave labor of the place, I had to clean out his kennel every day -- 3 times a day! Good Lord, it stunk to high heaven!!

I was never so glad to see an animal leave that place as I was when "Mr. Cleaver" left ... Mean little **** too!

I need to go back to therapy now ... this has been a traumatic recollection for me ...

 

[AKguy1985]

I'll say this my uncle used to trap them. I have a couple teeth somewhere from one.

 

[makeithappen]

So many ways to go with this......but, I'll continue the path chosen by the thread. They're nothing but pests. They've torn up the river that feeds into the local lake causing so much tree debris to float into the lake, it's made the northern section damn near unusable even by flat-bottom jon boat. I made a trip 2 years ago to take several out prior to the season closing. We got 4 total. Guesstimated the weight of each between 60-70lbs.

Need to get back up the river, if even possible, when the season opens this year and go Rambo-style on them.

 

[Old Fart]

Those are some nice looking Beavers you have there.

 

[yukonjack]

So many ways to go with this......but, I'll continue the path chosen by the thread. They're nothing but pests. They've torn up the river that feeds into the local lake causing so much tree debris to float into the lake, it's made the northern section damn near unusable even by flat-bottom jon boat. I made a trip 2 years ago to take several out prior to the season closing. We got 4 total. Guesstimated the weight of each between 60-70lbs.


Need to get back up the river, if even possible, when the season opens this year and go Rambo-style on them.

That's at least $200 of beaver pelts right there!!

 

[makeithappen]

That's at least $200 of beaver pelts right there!!

If I knew someone I could sell the pelts to, I could load them up with no less than 5 of those on opening day.

 

[yukonjack]

If I knew someone I could sell the pelts to, I could load them up with no less than 5 of those on opening day.

What? No beaver buyers in Oklahoma???

 

[Hump66]

What? No beaver buyers in Oklahoma???

Not with that video vigilante guy in OKC running around video taping them.

 

[DaveG]

They taste like chicken

I do not remember it tasting like chicken.

 

[CHenry]

Thats a good lookin beaver you got there.