Question about snaring and bobcats

[humptulips]

How does a bobcat carry its tail?
The reason I'm asking is I have been experimenting with a snare set on a run pole. I have snared two cats by the tail and I am trying to understand what is happening. It seems to me if they carried their tail in an upright position they must be ducking under the snare. If their tail is down they must somehow be backing into it. Out of my experimental sets I have neck snared 4, tail snared 2, one backed out and 2 misses.
After the first tail snared one I wrote it off as a fluke but with two I need to figure this out.

[SteveCraig]

The one part of a bobcat that constantly moves is its tail. A bobcat can be standing or sitting still, and its tail will be moving all the time.
Lions do the same thing, The last 3 or 4 inches of that lions tail is in constant motion.
You are in a class all by yourself there Hump! Snaring a bobcat by the tail is a good one. I have snared house cats and many other species by the tail, but never a bobcat.
My guess is your cats are getting all the way through the loop, or they are going under it and that tail is simply tripping your snare and staying on. Your snares may be set too light on your support too.
FWIW
Steve

[humptulips]

From the looks of things I can't see the cat getting through the snare. 1/16 snares and they trip easy. I can't see a cat going through the snare and getting caught by the tail and not having a hind leg or two in the snare. It is possible if the cat holds it tail up and it ducks under the snare it's tail could catch the bottom of the loop. The other possibility the cat could back up on the run pole and back into the snare.
I might add the whole point of this set is I'm trying to come up with a set that is dogproof for those places too close to houses.

[sbhooper]

You don't have to worry about snare marks on the fur!!