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lottie

Joined: 11 Aug 2005
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Location: ceredigion

Posted: Mon Apr 23, 07 8:33 am Post subject: live cage traps for rabbits
Found the Defra info on these from Tahirs link but does anyone know how well they work?----they aren't cheap so I don't want to spend money if they aren't that good. Obvious we have a rabbit problem we'll have to address when we finally get moved.

KILLITnGRILLIT

Joined: 14 Sep 2006
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Location: Looking at a screen in the front room

Posted: Mon Apr 23, 07 9:01 am Post subject:
Don`t bother, chocolate and fire guard spring to mind !

lottie

Joined: 11 Aug 2005
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Location: ceredigion

Posted: Mon Apr 23, 07 9:10 am Post subject:
Thanks---because of position and surrounding livestock shootings not really an option so I'll have to try finding somebody with working ferrets when we move.

Green Man

Joined: 23 Jul 2006
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Location: Rural Scotland.

Posted: Mon Apr 23, 07 9:11 am Post subject:
What do you do with the rabbit afterwards. You can't release it on somebody elses property by law, and wild animal legislation will be tight for allowing you to dispach it, as it hasn't been reared for food. Do you know Killit'n'Grillit ?

lottie

Joined: 11 Aug 2005
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Location: ceredigion

Posted: Mon Apr 23, 07 9:15 am Post subject:

Cho-ku-ri wrote:

What do you do with the rabbit afterwards. You can't release it on somebody elses property by law, and wild animal legislation will be tight for allowing you to dispach it, as it hasn't been reared for food. Do you know Killit'n'Grillit ?

If the trap worked I would just have eaten it

Green Man

Joined: 23 Jul 2006
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Location: Rural Scotland.

Posted: Mon Apr 23, 07 9:19 am Post subject:
I know you would, but are you allowed too? Hopefully you are. But Red Tape Britain is not hunter gatherer friendly.

Treacodactyl
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Posted: Mon Apr 23, 07 9:25 am Post subject:
A whack on the back of the head or breaking it's neck are still methods of humane dispatch of a rabbit when I last looked. That's what you would do when ferreting. Now it might actually be illegal to release live rabbits as they are non-native...

judith

Joined: 16 Dec 2004
Posts: 22789
Location: Montgomeryshire

Posted: Mon Apr 23, 07 9:28 am Post subject:
As rabbits are vermin, I think it would be illegal to release them full stop. IIRC landowners actually have a legal duty to eradicate them.

lottie

Joined: 11 Aug 2005
Posts: 5059
Location: ceredigion

Posted: Mon Apr 23, 07 10:09 am Post subject:

Cho-ku-ri wrote:

I know you would, but are you allowed too? Hopefully you are. But Red Tape Britain is not hunter gatherer friendly.

According to the Defra info on traps it tells you about best ways of taking rabbits from trap and dispatching so it must be O.K.

Green Man

Joined: 23 Jul 2006
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Location: Rural Scotland.

Posted: Mon Apr 23, 07 11:02 am Post subject:
I'm glad.

dpack

Joined: 02 Jul 2005
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Location: yes

Posted: Mon Apr 23, 07 1:01 pm Post subject:

KILLITnGRILLIT wrote:

Don`t bother, chocolate and fire guard spring to mind !

i didnt know they liked chocolate

KILLITnGRILLIT

Joined: 14 Sep 2006
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Location: Looking at a screen in the front room

Posted: Mon Apr 23, 07 2:40 pm Post subject:
Have you thought about using Fenn Mk6`s, as they can be placed inside the burrows ?

lottie

Joined: 11 Aug 2005
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Location: ceredigion

Posted: Mon Apr 23, 07 2:53 pm Post subject:

KILLITnGRILLIT wrote:

Have you thought about using Fenn Mk6`s, as they can be placed inside the burrows ?

aren't they spring traps---do they always kill?---I don't want to cause unnecessary suffering----or am I getting the traps wrong? quite happy to kill a rabbit I've caught in a live trap or use another type that'll kill it.

dpack

Joined: 02 Jul 2005
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Location: yes

Posted: Mon Apr 23, 07 2:55 pm Post subject:
as a man who has been nipped in a mk 4 im sure they do snap ,job done

lottie

Joined: 11 Aug 2005
Posts: 5059
Location: ceredigion

Posted: Mon Apr 23, 07 3:01 pm Post subject:
Thanks for advice---when they get cheeky enough to nibble plants a few feet from where they could watch us eating breakfast something has to be done----and hopefully the rabbit meat will help pay for the traps

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