We love the wildlife, but some of it we don't want in our backyard, nesting in the woodpile, digging up the new lawn, etc. So I bought this friendly trap (is that a contradiction of terms?) called "Have a Heart". Jim puts a big blob of peanut butter on the trigger mechanism and when the critter begins eating, the doors close. Then, Jim drives out about 5 miles and releases it. I have named this the SRP (for you Phoenix folks, this does not stand for the Salt River Project), the Squirrel Relocation Program. We've relocated 8 over the past month. We're hoping it's not the same squirrel making it back to our place for the peanut butter. If it is, I think we should try squirrel stew.
Game and Fish recently stocked the streams with trout and Jim has been having fun catching and releasing, catching and eating, or now catching and relocating....another wildlife program called TRP; Trout Relocation Program. There's a pool Jim has discovered that, after stocking, has a large number of fish. Jim thinks it would be better for the fish if they were dispersed more evenly through out the stream, so he takes along a bucket, catches them and relocates them along other parts of the stream.
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