Well, it appears I have a score of 10 for baking skills!!!
😂😂😂...of course this is the view we saw most often!! Our "steak outs" were usually quite an adventure.
Pay attention because on this particular night, Percy, CO's feline friend was in truck with us! That story on another day!!
Charlie update: 9-20-20
It’s 1.5 hours short of 24 hours since his capture. Until now, he hasn’t moved from this bed since 230 AM when I put him there last night. He’s not eaten. He’s not peed. The mere presence of me makes him cower and shake.
Today, I mostly gave him space and a little time was spent with him and Willow. This video is the first time he has gotten up since we got him. He ate a couple bites. Still hasn’t pee. He’s got a long road to recovery.
This all started on October 27th 2019. In Walkerton Indiana. We moved three different times over the course of 11 months. We tried a standard box trap, kennel trap, collarum and finally the drop net. Each time he outsmarted us. Too aware of everything around him and super small changes. Practically impossible. We were told we couldn’t get him and to leave him be but when you feed a dog every single night and watch him come eat on camera every single night; it wasn’t possible to not help him.
The drop net however, was my last trick. 4 weeks ago I met Melisa Harris-York on a national trapping site. She is from FL and had built her own net because online, they are 4K. She worked with me. Gave me all her specs. All her part numbers and send me pictures on how to build it. We had to order things online, get our poles from Great Lakes Fencing, and have Dustin help us wire the net up. Took us about two weeks collectively to build and collect all the items.
We started to move Charlie Oliver in the meantime. The first video, at the beginning is where he was being fed in the woods there. At the end of the video off in the distance on the right is where the mailbox is right after the field. This is probably 3/4 of a mile. Each night we moved him 30-40 ft from his old eating place to this new one. Over a span of two weeks. He went to the net for the first time Friday night and Saturday night we trapped him.
This boy is going to need some time to decompress. He had so much fear in his eyes when I ran up to him entangled in the net. We quickly got him into the crate, into the truck and down to Cindy’s garage for assessment and to untangle.
He’s home now with me and we have started working on making him feel welcome and setting in. Migrating him with my pack will be number one priority. They let him know he’s safe. Blood, sweat and tears were poured into this boy.
