For those of you that follow my socials you will be familiar with a project I have started to work on.
I have been making a collection of ‘mini’ or ‘desktop’ (OK, maybe smaller size rather than mini or desktop is more accurate description) traps. The idea behind this is to no only build my own repertoire, and hone my skills but to create portable working traps which can be used to safely demonstrate methods used around the world in animal acquisition. The desktop traps have the added benefit of being not only portable but also can be displayed and used easily in an indoor/classroom environment.
As it turns out this was a far more challenging than I first thought, working in miniature brings its own challenges and is rather fiddly. I have had to adapt methods and set ups so there are small loose bits do not fly off and cause injury and find the materials that work best for the specific trap on a small scale. However it is rather fun unless you are a stuffed animal of one of my cats toys.
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