I couldn't care less about people upset over seeing dead animals. Hiding them won't change their disney propaganda poisoned minds.

I don't cover anything, nor do I advertise it. If people do see it I find that they are more curious than anything and usually want to take a closer look. Most people never see furbearers up close.

Do not hide or cover catches or kills normally from trap line parking to house, one time did stop someplace spent 20 minutes explain to folks about trapping and how it has changed here in WA with just being able to use Cage traps and requirements of daily checks.

My co workers (except the vegetarian) like to come out and see if I caught something. Because, like many of you say, they don’t get the opportunity to study furbearers up close. As veterinary technicians, we get an added learning experience by checking out their teeth and ears and coat. I couldn’t believe the fleas on the fox I caught this year! Also we once took a stool sample from a raccoon and did a fecal floatation and yes he was loaded with roundworms eggs

Great thread.

Nope, dont care what the non hunting/trapping crowd think. Eric

I have a cap now, when I had an open bed I never covered them figured it is cheap advertising! Back in NY a few beaver in the back got me a lot of business!

Cool! Lol I started water trapping initially in my 20’s. First thing I caught was a beaver. Then three more the next day! I had an old Buick Regal. That car was a tank, took me anywhere no matter how much snow. I used to put big “under the bed” storage totes in the trunk and take them into town for my grandma to see. She always said how proud pap woulda been of me! I still hope that is true

Hide mine, holdover habit from the fur boom I guess...Besides, if your not selling anything, why advertise?

^^^^^100%. I'm likely to even hide stuff when hunting. 100% absolutely always covered when trapping. I could care less what the peta crowd has to say, think or feel but I have zero interest in advertising what I'm doing let alone potentially where I'm hunting/trapping to others that could be doing the same. There is way more downside here than upside to any public display.

My tuck has a topper on it so my catch and gear are always covered from the weather.

I covered only if anticipating rain on the 3hr drive home, not a problem if I had a shell on the bed. I never flaunted my KILLS, but I NEVER tried to hide them either. I have seen morons with a deer hung vertically off the back of a camper, swinging in the wind. They seriously needed an attitude adjustment!

No bodies business but me and the game warden.

Covered as it gets. I don’t display them but Im not going to hide either

I knew of an ADC trapper that used to put live cage trapped skunks on a hitch hauler.

No tailgating problems........lol

I had an adult male bobcat killed by a car or truck on the road in front of my house last night. The Turkey or Black vultures haven't started feeding on it yet. It usually takes just a few days for them to find carcasses before they start feeding on them.

I generally trap in and around suburban areas and generally cover or hide my catches not because I am ashamed or fear what some Karan might say or do but because it cuts down on theft and curious people messing with my sets, even someone not meaning to steal a trap can mess up a set just out of curiosity of what I might be doing

I have a topper on my truck and it would be difficult to see into the bed unless I stopped and someone were to look into the side windows. I don't cover my catches and never had any issues.

I don't cover mine. One time, I was at the Game and Parks headquarters buying a license, and a local Tman member who happened to be there also, saw some dead critters in the back of my truck and came back in to say hi.

I never used to but I do now after a concerned walker half torn up fox in my catch box and called local sheriff about me mutilating animals. Took hours and half a dozen law endowment to question me until I could get a CO could clear me. I was going to salvage what I could of the fox since it was dead. It was damaged by snowmobiles who kindly ran over it while in the trap(three of them) and didn’t appear believable to any but the Co
O because I was a “TRAPPER”.