Had one roaming the farm one morning - it couldn’t see and was bumping along the fence to get direction. It went into the barn and I pushed it out with a pitchfork so it wouldn’t get to the animals. It had blood coming from its mouth - scared the liver out of me. I popped a Rubbermaid tub over it. My husband and I slid a piece of plywood under the tub and put a weight on the top and called animal control.
They showed up about 1/2 hour later and by that time it had bitten a hole in the tub. I was standing over the tub with my trusty pitchfork in case it made a jailbreak.
The animal control guy thanked me for trapping it but told me never to try such a thing again. My husband was not particularly thrilled with me, either.
I was worried that if it got off our property that animal control would not be able to find it and it might bite someone’s kid.
They told us that they would euthanize it but would not test it for rabies because it hadn’t bitten or scratched anyone.
Yeah, that was a dumb thing I did. But all’s well that ends well.
I killed one with a hastily crafted spear. Even with a high quality knife with a needle sharp point as the spear head it took three jabs to puncture the beast’s skin. They are tough!