To that earlier discussion about foxes and trapping them, one of the more common fox traps used in here in the olden times was called (with rough translation to English) Paw Plank, basically it was plank that was put up right and cut into three pronged, with middle prong having bait on it, idea being that fox would try to jump to get the bait and its paws would get stuck between the prongs. Then it would hang there until trapper came to catch it or it died.
Like this.
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Quite cruel trap that caused lots of suffering for the animal.