Trapping Animals
Came across a story
A lady walking her dogs came across a fox caught in a trap. She release the fox and called the SPCA who ask her to let them have the trap. A little later this caring lady had a knock on the door, the police investigating the theft of the trap! It took 3
months to tell her she wouldn't be charged, wonder how many serious crimes weren't solved while this was investigated.
I always thought that, in this day and age, trapping animals was illegal, but in Scotland apparently not, if they are set properly! Come on Nicola do something useful and get this barbaric and sickening practice outlawed.
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OP, I've come across 'fen' traps(leg hold traps) on more than 1 occasion in woodland. I've taken them, disabled them & recycled the steel thru the tip skips. No authorities involved at all as I know the power of the 'hunting classes', I just don't give em
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All the traps are sold online or from the various 'country sports' periodicals. Long gone are the days when poaching was needed to provide the difference between life & death. Now it's done for the pleasure of taking an animals life or money. Sad but true
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I guess then that its OK to put down warfarin in Towns or cities to kill rats, despite them dying a lingering death from heamoraging.. Nodoubt the fox would have been humanely dispatched.
Write your comments here...snares do NOT humanely dispatch any creature they catch, it has even been known for a fox to bite through its own leg to escape these despicable devices. If I find any creature in a snare or trap, I first carefully release the animal then destroy the snare or trap so it cannot be set again. Leaving it in situ, so, i cannot be accused of stealing it.
Check my avatar, i find many snares. And destroy them all.
By the way, since heart surgery i have to take Warfarin daily. It keeps me alive.
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I guess then that its OK to put down warfarin in Towns or cities to kill rats, despite them dying a lingering death from heamoraging.. Nodoubt the fox would have been humanely dispatched.
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this is a good point it seems that the majority of the public get upset at the dath of certain animals but are quite happy and unaffected to swat a fly or as fysherman says poison a rat. I am not saying I condone traps but some perspective is required.
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the most inhumane treatment of an animal I ever witnessed was our cat when she played with half dead birds effectively torturing them for a while before the final bite. We should ban cats. !!!
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Its the half baked assertions by the bunny huggers, ie medicine warfarin that really gets up the noses of us proper custodians of the countryside.Its like comparing cntrolled dose of paracetamol with an overdose. But then the antis have never considered
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I guess then that its OK to put down warfarin in Towns or cities to kill rats, despite them dying a lingering death from heamoraging.. Nodoubt the fox would have been humanely dispatched.
Write your comments here...
this is a good point it seems that the majority of the public get upset at the dath of certain animals but are quite happy and unaffected to swat a fly or as fysherman says poison a rat. I am not saying I condone traps but some perspective is required.
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the most inhumane treatment of an animal I ever witnessed was our cat when she played with half dead birds effectively torturing them for a while before the final bite. We should ban cats. !!!
Write your comments here... OK SPK --I can go along with that !!
K
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kennine
ours was an absolute nut job, there good for keeping vermin down BUT if you have a cat for the purpose of vermin control considering how sadistic they are one could argue that cats are the most despicable tool even worse than traps.
just putting that out there
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Spring traps can cause a lot of pain and suffering......................Especially if you catch your thumb in one.
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Its the half baked assertions by the bunny huggers, ie medicine warfarin that really gets up the noses of us proper custodians of the countryside.Its like comparing cntrolled dose of paracetamol with an overdose. But then the antis have never considered facts or reality only pushing out inflamitory statements.
Write your comments here...Never hugged a bunny or a Tree come to that, eaten lots of bunnies, very nice. But all killed quickly shot with a .22 LR rimfire.. As for Proper Custodians of the countryside ! Poppycock ! Farmers are just business men these days, very few (but there are some) have thoughts on what their business based decisions have on the countryside or the wildlife that depends on it. Shooting estates are even worse, gamekeepers killing most predators even to the point of extinction ( Montagues Harriers and Hen Harriers) to name but a few. And using banned poisons and banned pole traps to achieve that end. Custodians of the Countryside ? Dont make me laugh.
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Its the half baked assertions by the bunny huggers, ie medicine warfarin that really gets up the noses of us proper custodians of the countryside.Its like comparing cntrolled dose of paracetamol with an overdose. But then the antis have never considered
facts or reality only pushing out inflamitory statements.Write your comments here...Never hugged a bunny or a Tree come to that, eaten lots of bunnies, very nice. But all killed quickly shot with a .22 LR rimfire.. As for Proper Custodians of the countryside ! Poppycock ! Farmers are just business men these
days, very few (but there are some) have thoughts on what their business based decisions have on the countryside or the wildlife that depends on it. Shooting estates are even worse, gamekeepers killing most predators even to the point of extinction ( Montagues
Harriers and Hen Harriers) to name but a few. And using banned poisons and banned pole traps to achieve that end. Custodians of the Countryside ? Dont make me laugh.Good post 'rayjsj' +100
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The phrese that might be better used is "Managers of the Countryside".
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