Do not Relocate predators!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[amazondoc]

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You need to read your own sources a bit more carefully. First, your citation refers to FUR HARVESTERS -- not nuisance animal removal. Second, here's what your web page actually says about live traps:

"Live Traps

As a substitute for leghold traps, trappers may use live traps capable of taking only one animal at a time within 450 feet of an occupied dwelling and associated buildings during the legal time for trapping the target animal. Live traps must be checked daily. Any animal captured in a live trap must be immediately killed or released; it is illegal to take these game animals or protected animals live from the wild. It is also illegal to hold these animals in captivity."

 

[Boyd]

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Sorry for what? All I said was that it was not illegal to use a livetrap in Michigan.

Furthermore, you are quoting from fur harvester rules. A farmer protecting his flock is not harvesting fur.

Well the DNR is in charge of this part of the state, but like another poster pointed out..... It is mainly illegal to keep a game animal captive or to transport...... here's michigan's law concerning it....


http://www.michigan.gov/documents/dnr/CAPTIVE_190659_7.html

Oddly enough, it is also the one that allows those of us who Own Coturnix quail to go under the radar and have as many birds as we want without permits and licenses.

 

[ChickensInTheNorthWoods]

The issue is people worry about their problem and could care less about their fellow man! Like Boyd said people take care of thier issue by trapping an animal and then drop them off/relocate them and more often than not they become someone else's problem. I don't think he enjoys shooting all the preditors that get dumped in his area but he has to do what is best for the sake of his pets / livestock. The moral of the story is think before you act - and do the right thing!

 

[Boyd]

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You need to read your own sources a bit more carefully. First, your citation refers to FUR HARVESTERS -- not nuisance animal removal. Second, here's what your web page actually says about live traps:

"Live Traps

As a substitute for leghold traps, trappers may use live traps capable of taking only one animal at a time within 450 feet of an occupied dwelling and associated buildings during the legal time for trapping the target animal. Live traps must be checked daily. Any animal captured in a live trap must be immediately killed or released; it is illegal to take these game animals or protected animals live from the wild. It is also illegal to hold these animals in captivity."

Once again read IT! You have to either Kill it or release it. Not somewhere else, making it someone elses problem. It also goes on to say it is illegal to hold these animals in captivity...

You want to actually to catch and release? All for that? I'd gladly take your name and address and forward the information to the proper authorities....

Sigh...... Some people are missing the point.

 

[amazondoc]

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Sorry, Boyd, but your claim -- "AT ALL" -- is simply not true. You made a mistake, get over it and move on.

 

[Boyd]

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Sorry, Boyd, but your claim -- "AT ALL" -- is simply not true. You made a mistake, get over it and move on.

Yup I did, I was looking at two different areas of the law, one says no, one says yes only if you kill it or release it immediately. So sorry.

 

[goldeneggtees]

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I have a funny story about bald eagles in Alaska. Me being a "surburban chick" and all and seeing my first bald eagle on a beach somewhere in Alaska, I was so excited by the sight. Then along comes a local throwing rocks at it. I say what the "_ _ _ _" are you doing. He says "protecting my little dog here - I've seen those darn eagles take my neighbors small dog away". I was shocked. The thought never crossed my mind that they could take a small pet. It made me leary of the red tailed hawks I see in the woods around here, especially when my little dog was a pup. You never know.

 

[mrszlopez]

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The best solution for predator problems is to PREVENT ACCESS of those predators to your birds.

I agree completely.
I personally feel that this thread goes against having respect for other peoples opinons on this matter.
It should have been brought about differently.

 

[Trenary Duck Farm]

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That document (The Captive Wild Animal Order) has little if anything to do with a live-trapped predator caught on somebody's farm. It is about keeping wild animals as pets, or something to that effect.

You have not provided proof that it is illegal to trap and release predators in Michigan.

 

[TN.MamaHen]

Thankfully no coon problems anyway...the boys up the road have they're coon dogs out on a regular basis.