Pine Marten Live Trap and Release

The saga of capturing and releasing a Pine Marten in a live trap. After multiple tries and failures to capture this animal he was finally fooled and sent off down the road to a new home.

[rockrevenchy]

My brain: "pet him, it's just a big fluffy ferret"
Also my brain: "he is pretty scary"

[JimNotCarrey]

We have these in Poland too. Had one climbing our roof trying to get to a sparrow nest and ended up screeching me awake right outside my window. Cute but scary

[HypnotizedAwake]

This feels like inspiration for how they made a few quests in Skyrim

[hampshireoak]

I have a problem Marten living in my roof and I played your video pressed against the ceiling. She heard the distress calls and I hope she gets the idea that I want her to quit our home and leave.

[soilcredibility]

Rob, great video, any advice on the bait, and the timing to get the bait in, frequency of changing the bait etc...?

[tommycash]

What is the brand name of your cage trap? I want to buy one. I don't know if I can in the US though.

[saudistevo]

Did it ever come back? Some animals have a basic instinct to get to the original home, just wondering if Martens tend to return? Great video BTW.

[daliborjovanovic]

I've seen martens trotting through my own backyard in the suburbs several times during summer season (though not pine martens but beech martens). Once I even found one hidding up a tree. It really was a privilage getting to see one of nature's cutest killing machines in the flesh, multiple times at that.

[galacticdragon]

I have a superhero based off a pine Marten, and this is legit her 24/7 XD 5:26

[FISHWILD]

Haha, the release at the end was funny to watch... Man, I guess they are basically mini wolverines. Vicious. Cool footage.

[MagicBaldMushroom]

Well done! That was a good thing to do. Removing the marten without harming it and releasing it back to its home

[laveldickson]

Yes. Please open with intergalactic caution. Those things seem very much to me, to be a bear, a wolverine, a tiger, fox, sable, and a f*cking hyena all wrapped in 1 tiny body, perfectly balanced.

[JyttesTrailCamera]

It is a pretty silly trap that is so difficult to open. I saw your other video as well, and you are a nice person who just wants your shed left alone, but do not want to harm the marten. Pine martens can find it hard to find a nice place to den, and your shed is probably warm and inviting. You might lose the fight anyway. You could try to put up a marten-box for it, away from your house.

[donaldturner]

Beautiful creature and really nice video.

[ryanallen]

Didn’t he head straight back to wreck your place? Lol

[zendavid]

Yikes! Don't blame you Rob! Very cool to respect/relocate! Gotta admit it Damn funny release! Tight lines

[wildernessboy]

i do it a bit difrent... i live trap em and then shoot em bc where i live i cant use a normal trap it sucks

[crownroy]

you should have left him alone, , , , you had a martin but you had know rats or mice- now you got mice and maybe a few rats

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I heard that applying taser shocks to the cage helps calm him down.