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Cheers Dundee, still confused, but the way I read it is if they can sell them they are legal. I use victors. If they want to come to South Westland to inspect them they are welcome.
Retards.
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Originally Posted by Dundee
Cheers Dundee, still confused, but the way I read it is if they can sell them they are legal. I use victors. If they want to come to South Westland to inspect them they are welcome.
Retards.
Sounds to me like it only went to court because he was on someone else's land?
The rules pertaining to trapping are getting harder and harder to abide by every year. I think it is part of a very long term policy of keeping trappers and hunters out of the forest because it doesnt really fit with the touchy feely tourist image. Its hard to handle that over the last few years our 100s of traps have become illegal and our Lifetime Cyanide licences have been taken away from us. Now thats a great way to reduce the number of hunters and trappers in our forests for a start.
Take NAWAC... National Animal Welfare Advisory Committee. They set standard for traps that are really stringent and often hard to understand and comply with and dont often make sense. There are rules for Africa about use of gin and leghold traps even if you are using them on your own land.
Take the Kill Trap..We have been through the testing process.... and if you want to test your trap on a mulitude of animals (Stoats rats etc etc) you will have to take out a morgage..The kill trap must kill within three minutes????? or it fails and your money has all gone down the drain.
No such requirement for poisons though to meet any Welfare standards.... Yet 1080 takes anywhere from 10 to 15 hours in some cases more to kill a possum...2 to 3 days of 'unspeakable agony' according to our RSPCA to kill a deer.
Of course there is the fact that the poisoning industry is a 100 million dollar industry and we wouldnt want any rules about animal cruelty to derail it would we?.
I'm still pissed off about having my life time Cyanide license taken ,use to make a few dollars annually out of possums.Kept my access sweet doing the pest control thing for mates on farms round here. But with a few greenies & tree hugers stuffing the fur industry in this country.Appears that 1080 is the only solution DOC & Central government can come up with.Perhaps they should of controlled the Greenies & there wouldn't be a need for 1080.
Would like my Life time license re-instated but not willing to pay hundreds of dollars to get it so I can provide a pest control service with no or very little profit in it.
The problem with the trap shown is that it's size 1 1/2. only size 1 traps are legal now! yes PC madness I agree.
keep at em possom trapper & everyone else your efforts are respected and hugely valuable.
Get amoungst em!!
Just seen this on u tube
The Possum Whisperer, fur trapping new zealand - YouTube
hey mate ive just started trapping possums aswell,ive been using aniseed oil mixd with sugar and flour,seems to work but i have alot of traps set off with nothing but a bit of fur in them haha pisses me off.its gud fun tho.
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