Isn’t that ironic..don’t you think?

Honestly, the tail was clean cut off. RM trappers bring the tail in to get paid as proof as they caught a beaver.

I had a beaver (in a 330 - trapped in my own back yard) that was able to rise above the waterline & was very much alive and it emerged & hit the setters so hard that I thought it would bend them. Lesson I learned was, they're tough & teeth are dangerous. If your in their territory, be vigelant.

Can't you report that as theft or at least fraud?

Isn't that taking $50 from YOU?

I had a beaver (in a 330 - trapped in my own back yard) that was able to rise above the waterline & was very much alive. I put on my waders & went in and it emerged & hit the setters so hard that I thought it would bend them. Lesson I learned was, they're tough & teeth are dangerous. If your in their territory, be vigelant.

That the are the RM and why do they hire adc trappers...?

You have to remember that many of us in the states don't know all the Canadian slang for stuff, such as your "hydro bill". I thought you were talking about a water bill until one of the Minnesotans said your were talking about your electricity, which I guess in a lot of Canada comes from water power. I live less than 400 miles from Canada and never knew you guys call northern pike "jacks" until I started talking to you all on outdoor forums. I don't think South Dakotans (maybe we're not very imaginative) don't have much for slang words except maybe that we call our state police out on the highways, "hypos" ...

Listening to alanis morisette is like listening to two alleycats scrapping.