My favorite I've had done to me is..

Caught a nice double on coons. Both were skun and they put the coons feet back in the trap.. Pretty neat

Had a coon blatantly stolen in high school by the land owner and told me I had caught a cat

Years back I had a guy stealing coon next to a road culvert at night he tried to make it look like it escaped. I pulled the trap and left a present for the guy.

I had someone exchange a stuffed teddy bear for my raccoon in a 220.

Had a guy steal a cat out of my trap, then post on fb how he was blessed with a nice big Tom. lol. Eric

Had a fresh caught marten in my sleigh,it was still floppy.While I was in checking another set I saw a big raven swoop down and grab the marten and fly off with it.$180 bucks(avg that year) gone with the wind.
Now I bag everything.

Nice catch!!!

had 10 williams cage traps in shed...stole 9 left me one for varmints i guess

Wonder how long the Raven had been planning the heist

Didn't happen to me but to a friend of mine.His wise guy neighbor used to sneak in his chicken coop and steal eggs.(not a big deal as they pranked each other all the time)So,,my buddy went out early and swapped out the fresh eggs with hard boild ones,,then sat back and waited for the phone call.

had some coon hunters take my DP and leave the coon after their dog had a fun time tearin it apart once

I've never had a cool thief story. They all suck.

Not thievery but beaver peeler put I life sized baby doll in one of my 330’s once and tossed it out in the slough I was trapping.

In the last coon boom, I had 2 coons stolen out of traps along a fence line. Catch circles full of dog tracks. The last set was skunk, still alive, very odorous, and surrounded by dog tracks also. Karma ruled that day, I guess.

That said, I hate thieves.

Not with fur but a few years ago some crack heads were checking car doors, well the wife had her purse in hers and is mighty trusting. She goes to work and the bank calls and ask about some charges. She goes out and looks for said purse. Gone ! She calls me. I tell her to start putting stops on all cards, she didn’t have numbers so she goes to the mall, Cabelas first. They just left with 100’s$$ spent. Kohl’s they just left denied jewelry she calls me. I start calling the other mall, JC pennys , maceys, they take my number and call me right back. Security has eyes on them. So after finding out security can’t just kill them I have to call the police and get them hooked to security. (This word is unacceptable on Trapperman). Ok done, get a call back they left the property but have a description of the vehicle and direction of travel. Few minutes later I get a call from police they spotted the vehicle in the parking lot of REI. Now they are watching surveillance footage from mall security to make sure they get the right guys. While all this was going on I was in a garbage truck trying to work. As I head up to the highway on-ramp I’m going by REI’s parking lot and see 5 cops surrounded a green van. Guys getting cuffed. Great! Try as hard as I could, could not get REI to have vehicle towed even after 5 days. Cops tell my wife they never get to catch them. Then our POS district attorney says with Covid they don’t have resources to prosecute. I guess at least everything got returned, the Sitka jacket was peeled off the skumbag. And I hope the withdraws where horrible.

Western Wildlife Services

They Do... I hate thieves

Not enough pages on here! But I was checking tras once and a car pulls up ,the guy gets out and down the ditch he goes and pops up with a mink wasn't mine and he hollers to the car and says so and so 's trap . the guy in the car says take the mink leave the trap .

LOL, That's messed up, and funny as scat!

Had a trap stolen they left the coon two empty shot shells boot prints in the mud and the coon was well ventilated

Not trapping related, but one of our Peace Corps nurses was on her way to a lab to have some feces samples checked for parasites and a guy reached into her purse and grabbed the brown paper sack all the samples were in and ran away.