First, you prop up one end of a log to form an angle with the ground. Underneath, you set a trigger with bait like dead fish or birds. When a badger touches the trigger, the log comes crashing down.
The front is a dead end, and there are wooden stakes on both sides. By the time the badger realizes what's happening, it has no way to escape and is crushed to death by the log.
It's called a 'pair' because the two rows of wooden stakes are set opposite each other. And because the propped-up log chops down forcefully after being triggered, some also call it a 'deadfall'.
Badgers forage at night. At this time of year, mid-September, you could catch a foraging badger just by taking a dog up to the main ridge around ten o'clock at night.
But badgers have sharp teeth and claws, and they bite to kill. Right now, the only dog Zhao Jun's family could send out was Black Tiger.
