That's what happened to me. It was late afternoon. I was in the process of making a castor set with a 330. I opened the jar of castor when a beaver popped up. He was very upset and was hissing, chirping, etc. He watched me put the 330 in front of the castor mound I had made. As soon as I stepped away. He swam right into the 330 without any hesitation.

I gotta couple of my own. This was doing ADC jobs which tend to have more chances of things like this happening. Disregarding the run in the house and grab 'X' animal jobs -

1) I was doing a gray squirrel job. On a ladder setting a positive capture trap to a chew hole in the soffett , just get the last screw holding the trap on , the squirrel pokes his head out a little bit to see what is going on , I slap the roof real hard. It scares the heck out of it and it goes right into the trap. The screwgun was in my other hand.

2) I was doing a groundhog job. I had set 4 traps in this lady's backyard. I forgot the bait and had to go home to get it. On my return , I see one of the groundhogs in the middle of the backyard and start to walk towards it to see which way it goes. It takes off. , I follow in hot pursuit. It heads right to one of my traps near a hole. It runs past the hole heading for the neighbors yard but runs right into the cage trap. I am right behind it and I slapped the door shut. Customer was watching the whole time.

3) I was doing a Norway rat job at this house. Turns out the neighbors had some large snakes and were feeding them rats that they raised. But they moved out and let the rats free which caused a problem for my customer. I was setting rat traps in the fake rock enclosures. Set one , set a second one about 5 feet away , was in the process of setting a third and I hear the first one go off. Opened it up and it was a double with 2 juivie rats in it. Customer was right there with me. We were high fiveing like we just won a football game.

I had a job removing nutria from a small 9 hole golf course. I could use conibears, or foot traps, but had to wait until dark to set, and pickup before they opened in the morning. Several times I would set several traps, turn around in my golf cart, and chase a nutria into the trap. It would take me about an hour and a half to set, then I would check all before leaving for the night. I always had two or three by then. I had a beaver swim between my legs and into a den, while I'm standing there with a 330 in my hands. No catch though.

I had a muskrat get caught by and take a 120 conibear, as I set it, out of my hand.

Keith

I watched a marten chasing a rabbit on the skidoo trail once while I was out setting marten traps.
The marten caught the rabbit and killed it in the usual way-a bite to the spinal cord behind the skull.
I ran up the trail and the marten tried to drag the rabbit to the bush line,but dropped it in the deep snow and went up a nearby spruce tree.
I picked up the rabbit,took it back to the sleigh,tore the head off it,stashed the body of the rabbit for lunch,and put the head in a marten box and wired a 120 to the box,set it and took it back the 20 yards or so to the spot where the marten dropped the rabbit.
The marten was still in the tree screaming at me once in a while.i went back to the sleigh and sat down and had a coffee from my thermos.
I waited about 10 minutes,the marten finally came down the tree went straight to the box and stuck his head in the trap.
Over the years I have watched mink and beaver get caught in traps as well as a few other marten.