Agreed, there's certainly ways to minimize the risk of unintentional catches, but, knowing how permanent a mistake of that sort can be, I try to limit my use of body-gripping (conibear-type) traps to where they're not apt to be bothered by pets or found by kids. Being a bachelor with no pets and no other houses for a mile or more in three out of the four directions from my house helps considerably in that regard--at least if something shows up unexpectedly, it shouldn't have been here in the first place. I've got two dirt-floored lean-to's off my garage, and, despite every effort to keep them closed up, it seems every year at least one woodchuck decides they're prime spots for digging a hole--typically first burrowing under the lean-to wall and then digging the actual hole under the concrete slab my garage sets on. Having had issues in the past with old tunnels serving as channels for Spring flooding washing out under the garage slab, I will immediately trap or otherwise remove any woodchuck that digs there, and as it's inside the building, it's a natural spot for a body-grip trap, particularly as they never seem to dig the usual two holes, either because there's no easy way to do it through the slab or because, one way or another, they don't last long enough to fully set up housekeeping! Even filling the holes with debris such as old wire mesh, concrete chunks, and similar materials doesn't stop them, though it will slow them down enough that unless I happen to go a few days without checking things I'll notice them digging and can prepare a suitable welcome party. I typically anchor my traps with at least one (sometimes two--one on each spring) of the twist-in dog anchor stakes, simply because I have an abundance of them picked up cheap at garage sales and such over the years, and I haven't had a problem with trap loss using that method, though your method is more typical of what most trappers use.
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