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In the vicinity of the mountainside, he searched for a few solitary trees, swung his axe to fell them, trimmed the branches of twigs, and after making them into suitably long sticks, he transported them back to the pile of boards in batches.
Having prepared the materials, he inserted a "Y"-shaped stick about two meters long into the ground, hung an oil lamp on it as a makeshift lighting tool, and began to make the first live trap of his life on this starlit isolated island slope.
A live trap like this is usually effective against small animals.
It is particularly effective when capturing squirrels, honey badgers, cats, and rats—animals that are not too big or too small and are greedy.
When facing larger animals like cattle and sheep, live traps can be limited by materials, creating problems that make it easy for prey to escape.
