Thread: Feral cat comp hopefully.

Originally Posted by Micky Duck

I BELIEVE the gassing or drowning in a cage trap is no longer acceptable or legal..no matter how effective it is....dispatch with .22lr or your air rifle is I believe the new acceptable method of dispatch.... a connibear trap eliminates the need but is problimatic (or not depending on viewpoint) as far as live release is concerned.

There are quite a few traps around nelson lakes like this one. Pretty cool with the transmitter alerting them to when the door has closed.



Be interesting to know what the dispatching method is here, can't imagine the folks checking the trap line strolling about with .22 but maybe they do?



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Originally Posted by kukuwai

There are quite a few traps around nelson lakes like this one. Pretty cool with the transmitter alerting them to when the door has closed.



Be interesting to know what the dispatching method is here, can't imagine the folks checking the trap line strolling about with .22 but maybe they do?



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Yeah. There are quite a few cat traps around the area. Even up past lake head. They are required to be checked once triggered. Unfortunately, the majority of the triggers are from Weka and hedgehogs but there are still a lot of cats being caught. From memory around 8 in the last month. General method of dispatch is a .22 but depending on what else is happening in the area the 300BLK has been used too.

I thankful that gower is following it up and didn't just back out after the intial out cry.
That cat in the photo mickeyduck put up is huge.
Be too big for small cal soon if keep growing at that rate.

I think they are a bit of grey area.....best check regulations.

Jeez how the world has changed MD. In Te Whetu back in the fifties and sixties, my paternal grandfather used to gather up feral kittens, put them in a hessian sack with a brick and biff them into the swamp.

Originally Posted by Rushy

Jeez how the world has changed MD. In Te Whetu back in the fifties and sixties, my paternal grandfather used to gather up feral kittens, put them in a hessian sack with a brick and biff them into the swamp.

changed for the better then......horrible way to go.

Originally Posted by Rushy

Jeez how the world has changed MD. In Te Whetu back in the fifties and sixties, my paternal grandfather used to gather up feral kittens, put them in a hessian sack with a brick and biff them into the swamp.

@Rushy……..mate..the Sunlight soap crowd is going to show up at yr place tomorrow and wash your mouth out!!

…….my bet is that its been washed out a few times and you actually like the taste…….Baaaaawhahahahahahahhahahahahahaha

Originally Posted by A330driver

@Rushy……..mate..the Sunlight soap crowd is going to show up at yr place tomorrow and wash your mouth out!!

…….my bet is that its been washed out a few times and you actually like the taste…….Baaaaawhahahahahahahhahahahahahaha

Ha ha ha ha, I am certainly no stranger to Sunlight soap or the threat of having my mouth washed out. Although the threat was because I was a bit of a potty mouth and if you spend more than five minutes in my company you will see that the threat never worked.

And here is me always having been lead to believe that drowning was a good death. I guess that none of us living beings know if there really is such a thing.

No TV tonight. Can you give a quick run down on it if you watch it please.

Originally Posted by kruza

No TV tonight. Can you give a quick run down on it if you watch it please.

Few snap shots of the programme.

Originally Posted by Dundee

Few snap shots of the programme.
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I see your cat couldn't bear to watch it @Dundee

DOC website:
Dogs

Dogs frequently kill adult kiwi and can cause catastrophic declines in local populations.
All dogs, regardless of size, breed, training or temperament are potential kiwi killers. A dog can kill a kiwi by just giving it a playful push.
In Northland, the life expectancy of adult Northland brown kiwi has been reduced to just 14 years on average, due to dogs

We've got a bunch of Timms traps (for possums) on trees and I put some beef offal in them hoping for some cats but didn't get any. Thinking about using some carp, anyone had success with a different bait?

Originally Posted by slk12

We've got a bunch of Timms traps (for possums) on trees and I put some beef offal in them hoping for some cats but didn't get any. Thinking about using some carp, anyone had success with a different bait?

My experience with cats [which is limited] is fresh 1/4 hare or rabbit or duck carcass with feathers on and also scattered in and around the trap is my go to bait.. I have tried smoked fish, fresh fish, and many more lures but I know what catches for me. Cam Speedy would say 1/3 of the bait in the trap , 1/3 around close to the trap and 1/3 scattered around up to 20m away... Hopefully Time out will chip in