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The form of trap known as the Hugger Trap, and 

 shown at Fig. 49, is very useful for poaching cats and 

 dogs. The taking of the bait releases the jaws, which 

 seize or hug the victim round the neck and kill it. 



The employment of poisons for the destruction of 

 ground vermin in general, and for cats in particular, is a 



Fig. 49, Hugger Trap for Poaching Cats and Dogs. 



means to which I would never advise recourse, and is, 

 except under certain conditions, not admissible, for the 

 risk of poisoning animals other than those intended is 

 certainly not worth running; besides, the expedient never 

 succeeds so extensively as to be much preferable to the 

 more satisfactory mode, that of using traps. 



If cheapness be a consideration where quantity is a 



