traps and snares

[stormy]

general question really.

how do you feel about using traps and snares to catch animals in the wild.
personaly i hate snares, because unfortunally i have had problems with people in the past, who dont check them enough, that ended up with a cat being killed, a fox loosing its leg and the suffering of a few rabbits.
believe it or not the person turned out to be a member of the animal rights trying to prove that snares hurt animals.

of course i have no problems with rat traps/ mole traps, because i check them every day ;D
ok i suppose thats what it is, it the trap is checked then now real suffering happens, but those that go unchecked or are put in a stupid place, like near someone garden where pets roam, they are the ones i have a problem with.
i must admit i would like one of those bear trap to set up on the footpath. i hear rambler tastes quite nice with chips ;D

so do you use traps and snares, or do you feel theres a better way of doing things.

[dazza]

No, for me, traps and snares are a last resort method in a survival situation. They're difficult to get right and this causes unnecessary harm and suffering to prey. If you're gonna hunt, kill quick and well. A well placed .22 round is still the best.

- Dazza.

- Dazza.

[stormy]

dazza, me and guns.

titters to herself.

what about moles?

[dazza]

Nah. They never sit still long enough to get them in the breach and when you do their muzzle velocity is tragic.

[stormy]

dazza even today i didnt get a word of that lol lol.
yeap im still as thick as two short planks

[mickster]

If you're going to set snares or a trap line, then you must check them regularly, even if its just to catch pests, there's no point in making them suffer. I once had to dispatch two foxes that were caught in snares and it is a horrible way for them to die, but they were just near the henhouses and pheasant rearing pens, so you have to balance out how much damage they would have wreaked, had they got in. I'm all for what Dazza says, Lie up with a decent .22 and shoot the buggers.

As for moles....This morning I opened the back door and looked out onto the back field and there was a Buzzard on top of a mole hill tucking into his breakfast mole. ;D As for mice. I just use live catch and release traps and if they remain persistant, I lay poison sachets down near their runs and cover them with a tile.

Mick.

[mickster]

dazza said:

Nah. They never sit still long enough to get them in the breach and when you do their muzzle velocity is tragic.

True. However, you could stick an earthworm down the barrel beforehand, which would give the mole the incentive to enter the breech. ;D As for velocity, I'd recommend my patent 'Mole Mortar' but go easy on the priming charge, as it will become er...messy. The same can also be said for my patent anti-cat mines. ;D ;D ;D

Mick.

[dazza]

lol. Cool. I'm trading up my rabbit gun for a mole mortar!
(Mmmmmmm - tasty vermin-based arms race ahead).
How about a terrapin tank or a cruztacian missle?? I'll get me coat...

[Starchild]

www.dtep.com/mole-in-the-hole.htm


The Jasper Carrott Mole sketch

[stormy]

lol @mick (i understood that).

now i could tell you a story about mole catching.
when my dad gawd bless his bald spot.

once upon a time, in a mill in clapwater, there was a man called bob, who was always having strange ideas about how to trap animals.
he favorite was the shooting of moles.
now hark, a few people cameth along and thought we can have fun here, so they got themselves a toy furry mole shapped cuddley toy.
and when dear bob went into the house to get more bullets, these peeps places the toy in a trap and made it look like the trap had sprung.
bob cameth back and hark he did see the trapeth have sprung and exclaimed in a loud voice, well fuck me i must have frightened the bugger into the trap.
and he did walketh over to where thou trap had spruneth and he cameth and picked up the trap.
being a bit blind, because he had forgotten where he had put his glasses, he first did not notice the cuddly fake mole.
well fuck me he said LOOK AT THE SIZE OF.......................hangon!.....................YOU BASTARDS.
oh how we did titter to ourselves.