Something to think about!
Posted: Sat Oct 08, 2011 8:59 am
I was recently asked to help teach the fifth graders at our local school about trapping for their outdoors camp. I did it last year and enjoyed it immensily so i agreed again. It would absolutetly blow your guys minds if you did this and seen the reaction from kids when they first arrive. We have tanned furs and traps laying on a table with snares set in trails ect ect. Every group we had come to the table made comments about foothold traps like "don't touch that it will kill you!" I had some of the adults act in the same way! The misinformation the kids are getting from disney and their parents nowadays about trapping is mind boggling. Most classes after an hour of instruction and discussion about the damage predators can do to livestock left with a better understanding of how and why we trap plus snapping a two coil Montana number three on our hands over and over again let them know that they aren't the tools of torture disney portays them as. My point is if you get the chance to educate some little ones on trapping take full advantage they will be voting one day and if disney is going to target them young there is no reason why we shouldn't.