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Published: Feb. 1, 2025 at 5:27 PM PST|Updated: 18 hours ago
HERMANSVILLE, Mich. (WLUC) – On Saturday, trappers came together to learn and share tips and tricks with the less experienced.
The 20th annual U.P. Trappers Association Young Trappers Workshop included demonstrations, a variety of furs to view or purchase, and trapping equipment for sale.
The workshop also had free gifts for kids and a can raffle for adults.
Browning Kittleson likes to trap foxes and muskrats. He says he found the trapping demonstrations at the workshop helpful.
“It’s been really educational with the weasel demo and the raccoon demo we just did,” Kittleson said. “I learned a lot about raccoon trapping, and I might want to try it sometime later. So, it’s good to learn right now, to learn different traps and tricks.”
U.P. Trappers Association President John Gunville hopes people at the workshop took away the importance of trapping as a means of animal population control.
“A lot of people are building houses around lakes and then they got nice big poplar trees in their yard and all at once a beaver moves into the lake or on a river and they start cutting their poplar trees down and they’re mad because they’re killing all the trees,” Gunville said. “Well, the beaver doesn’t know any better.”
Raccoon Trapper Stetson Oman encourages you to give trapping a try.
“I think more kids should get into trapping because it’s really fun, you get outside, and we need more trappers for the next generation of trapping,” Oman said.
Children under 11 were given a free weasel box and children over 12 were given a dog-proof trap.
Exposing the Big Game 
Trapping: So much fun! I hope the kids get their little hands caught in their own damn traps; teaching kids to slaughter animals is absolutely reprehensible.
..at best.
They make it sound so wholesome until you translate what they’re saying:
I find the best way to show my love of the outdoors is to kill the animals in it for money and entertainment. I find it so much fun to use devices that are designed to torture and kill living beings. I have absolutely no regrets or hesitation doing it. I love strangling, crushing and beating animals to death and I want to teach kids how to do it too!
Thank you for that honest interpretation.