bunny season

She nodded encouragingly at Leaf's interjection. "Very true, especially as wet as it is right now we could do a lot of damage with our claws and weight running around. The biggest advantage of snares is that they work when you aren't even there, so they double your effectiveness. You could be on patrol, or weeding crops, or sleeping, and with the snares set you are still hunting."

She settled on the ground cloth and picked up a tool - she'd brought two, so she slid the other towards Leaf. A knife, just the blade with the dull back set into a comfortably rounded wooden handle with a loop to hold it to the paw, it would allow them to use their paws to guide the knife. "You can set snares using only sinew and what's already in the area you're setting it, but then your options are limited by the situation. I'll teach you to do that too, but for now let's work on a method that is more controllable, because you'll be bringing all the materials with you." Selecting two of the thicker limbs, about the same thickness, she showed Leaf how to slip the leather loop over the back of her paw, holding the knife in place, then trimmed the two limbs to be about the same size. Grabbing a third, more slender limb she stripped it of as much of the little knots and twigs that would catch to make it as smooth as possible. "What we're making is a type of what's called a spring snare. We're building a trigger mechanism right now that will hold the snare itself, attached on the other side to a bent sapling, until a small animal triggers it, then the snare will be whipped up off the ground." She waited while Leaf did as she had done, in case she needed help or had questions.