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I'll agree fully with Sturdee and add to take it further, that all feral pests should be culled by those licensed to do so (professional or farmers/land owners) without the use of poisons, inclusive of:Quote:
Originally Posted by Sturdee
• cats
• dogs
• rabbits
• horses/brumbies
• deer
• carp
• trout
• buffalo
• foxes
:U
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I always used a slug to the head. :2tsup: , that or I'd line 'em up on the road and run over them.Quote:
Originally Posted by HappyHammer
Have to be a small slug..... Otherwise, where did that toad go....Quote:
Originally Posted by Waldo
Air riffle Gra, air riffle. :U
If it was really big I'd use an elephant gun. They get really big you know. :;
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Originally Posted by Waldo
Sorry Waldo, but poison is already widely used in the eradication of feral/pest animals eg:
wabbits - Pindone oats and 1080
foxes - fox baits
and I'm sure there are others.
But in the main I agree that we should go about killing feral/pest animals in what is euphemistically (now there's a fine "bogan" word!:doh:) called a "humane" way. .
I believe that trapping an animal, such as a feral cat, and then shooting it is as "humane" as it gets. But maybe there are more "humane" ways, but personally I wouldn't want to get any closer to a feral cat than the end of a rifle barrel, you have to see some of them to believe they can grow that big and ferocious!:o
I had this vision....Quote:
Originally Posted by Waldo
in my best Clint Eastwood tone. "are you feeling lucky toad"
G'day Big Shed,Quote:
Originally Posted by Big Shed
Yeah :( I know my FIL is one of them, re: the poison. Sadly poison doesn't discriminate.
:yes: on the trapping and shooting.
Haven't seen a feral cat, but my late Dad did and saw some monsters, he had a semi-auto .22 with a scope, he'd take out with him when he field work in Western Qld. He had his aim down pat so ithat he could shoot a 20¢ piece from 50m away - while moving in the 6x4 work vehicle while his offsider was driving. He (and I agree) said it was his bit of killing what feral animals he saw while out there.
I hate people who do not lock there cats away 24 hrs a day, we lost three native ducklings to them this year:~.
When I use to work on the mines as an Environmental Coordinator we use to trap the feral cats on the lease to keep their numbers down and give the local fauna a chance. Here are a couple of pictures showing how big and healthy they get and what effect they can have on the native fauna. I am no expert but would expect that food would pass through their gut in 24 hours, do the math on what was in this cat. Note these two pictures are not the same cat.
Love Em Or Hate Em......... Couldn't Care Less!
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