If you study this, you will notice it is an odd catch. The beaver is caught in the outside jaw going out of the trap, rather than the inside jaw going into the trap. Usually beaver are neck or shoulder caught going into a Belisle, this one a 660. Sometimes they get "suitcased", double caught, forward and aft, with head exiting like this one, but the with the hip portion of the beaver also caught at the same time. This beaver is not exactly caught square in the trap either, so what he was doing???? Notably, he has one tooth on the bottom jaw pointing off at 45 degrees, not broken but growing that way and yet that tooth is worn like the others. An enigma for sure. This beaver was the only uncooperative one caught is something other than a cage so far this year. With the channel fenced he would not pass through to work on the dam and he had not sprung a trap but had only perhaps seen two other beaver caught. This 660 is not stock, but even so the beaver should not have been caught like this. With a 660 Belisle set in the front door, this spooky one with the strange tooth managed this odd catch.
I can remember having three conibears set in a row in a channel spanning about 8 feet years ago, with a large beaver caught in the center trap, while the other 2 were untouched.
Sure wish there was a camera at every weird occurrence to document just how the strange stuff happens.
