Funny capture this week, Trying to rid the pond of Muskrats which are undermining the bank with a lot of damage. I don't want to kill anything else in there like the baby wood ducks and geese. So I am using this live trap.

It's an old double door live trap from 1936 made by a guy named Rupert Merkle

He sold the patent to the Allcock manufacturing company which is now the Havahart brand. It looks the same as a #2 havahart, but it's made with commercial fishing mesh used in the atlantic in the 20's and 30's. Looks like chicken wire but much heavier and galvanized with some kind of heavy zinc to protect it in salt water I guess?
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Funny what you can catch in a live trap!

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