Allow me to suggest to any one who contemplates raising foxes that one of the essential things to do is to first build a kennel in such a way that they will not gnaw or dig out.
They will also gnaw out of wooden enclosures if there is a crack or any chance to get a start.
This cover should work freely, and when dropped down in place, should fill the opening neatly, leaving no cracks for the captured animal to gnaw at.
Muskrats do not gnawoff their feet as some suppose.
Some trappers are inclined to believe that certain animals gnaw their legs off when caught.
Trappers for years have contended that certain animals would gnaw out of traps, especially where the bone was broken by the jaws and the flesh had become numb from the pressure or from cold.
The Webbed and Double Jaw prevent the gnawing out from the fact that the animal can only gnaw to the lower jaw or web and is not able to get at the flesh between the jaws or under the web.
It is known that skunks especially will gnaw at that portion of the foot or leg below jaws of trap.
Our belief, after years of experience, is that if an animal is caught by the leg after some hours the flesh below the jaws of the trap becomes numb and the animal begins to gnaw it.
The beaver entering from the lower slope of the wood and swimming up to gnaw the sticks close to the ice, sets off the trap and in his struggles he pulls it clear from the cleft and in a few moments is drowned.
If trappers will observe the cross section of the jaws, as illustrated at the left, it is plain the animal can only gnaw off its leg at a point quite a distance below the meeting edges of the jaws.
He makes no noise to scare the rest, and before he has time to gnaw off his foot he is drowned.
Sugar and honey they seem to like best of all, and they seek far to find the sweets; but when hard pushed by hunger they make out to gnaw a living from the bark of trees and rotten logs, and might almost live on clean lava alone.
Thou need na jouk behint the hallan, A chiel sae clever; The teeth o' time may gnaw Tantallan, But thou's for ever!
The serpent, however, managed to gnaw his way through the wood, and then flew after them again.
Then the serpent came up to the forest and began to gnaw at it; and at last he gnawed his way right through it.
They are accustomed tognaw their fallen antlers, and are said also to devour mice.
For the moment, however, hunger prevailed, and each began to gnaw the scraps of putrid and frozen meat that were lying about, without waiting to prepare them.
Then he began to gnaw at the hoops, and when he had got them off the cask, he called out to the king's son, 'Kick and stamp!
He would not think about Corydon, nor about what he would do for money when he came home; more important yet, he would clear the book out of his thoughts--he would not permit it to gnaw at him all day and all night.
On the west shore of Hudson Bay dogs are not allowed to gnaw deer bones during the deer hunting season or seal bones during the sealing season (Klutschak, p.
After they got ashore, she called her dogs and let them gnaw off the feet and hands of her father while he was asleep.
She sent the young dogs to her father's hut and let them gnaw off his feet and hands.
They will gnaw one another to pieces; their power will disappear without war; and then we will strike on Hovanski.
Look out that Kmita does not publish the letters, for then the dogs would gnaw us to death.
The nobles murmured against this distrust entertained by townspeople; but Pan Andrei, knowing the Radzivill intrigues with the elector, had to gnaw his tongue to refrain from telling what was known to him.
It had suddenly discovered in us a social and moral menace to its own integrity and order, and had put upon us the stigma of rats who would gnaw the timbers of the ship of state and corrupt its cargo.
But many an old and cherished prejudice will begin painfully to gnaw its way out of your complacent mind before we are done.
Shift not yourself in the Sight of others norGnaw your nails.
All day long the miserable weasel lay on the floor of his prison, driven every now and then to gnaw his tail till he squeaked with the pain.
O set their teeth they will, and gnash, And gnaw for very pain, While as with scorpions God doth lash Them for their life so vain.
His sins and his hope went with him to the gate, but there his hope left him, because he died there; but his sins went in with him, to be a worm to gnaw him in conscience for ever and ever.
How will theygnaw and eat up all the expectation of the end of the misery of the cast-away sinners.
For the lusts, pleasures, and profits of this world; in the enjoyment of which I did then promise myself much delight; but now every one of those things also bite me, and gnaw me like a burning worm.
Here will be no forgetfulness; yet nothing shall be thought on but that which will wound and kill; here will be no time, cause, or means for diversion; all will stick and gnaw like a viper.
They will gripe thee and gnaw thee as if thou hadst a nest of poisonous serpents in thy bowels (Job 20:14).
And yet--I must suffer more than I yet suffer, physical and spiritual hunger must gnaw still more sharply, ere I can bring myself to try the last resource.
A caterpillar, when it wants to gnaw the edge of a leaf," says Reaumur, "twists its body in such a way that at least one portion of the edge of this leaf is passed between its legs.
The caterpillar, thus sheltered, sets to work to gnaw away at the end of the leaf which it rolled first; it then eats all the rolls it has made, up to the very last.
He didn't dig and gnaw everything in reach as he was too badly tied up.
Noting the cross-section of the jaws, as illustrated at the left, it is plain the animal can only gnaw off its leg at a point quite a distance below the meeting edges.
He liked to roll about, and was often destructive--he would gnawthe nets and skins, break the traps, and lick up the gunpowder.
You need not be, Miss Meredith; there are always certain hot-headed people who advocate rash methods and demand any bone to gnaw rather than not gnaw at all.
