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

[Big C]

Same as above...
Since there are no places you can easily by an "inhumane" trap we have a "have-a-heart".
After trapped predators are disposed of with a high powered pellet gun/or appropriate they are disposed of.
No muss no fuss or disposing of our problem on someone else who may pass their problem onto someone else.

 

[B. Saffles Farms]

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Thank you.

 

[saddina]

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Yeah Boyd, we know you just wanna be able to "pay it forward" to the boys your teen daughters bring home.

Note: I did not say I disagreed.

 

[montyhp]

Really good thread, really made me think.

There is no animal control in our area.

There is a lot of rabies.

I will not handle traps containing wild mammals (skunks, racoons, possums) and definitely not release them due to the increased risk of being exposed to rabies. It is best to end their suffering from a distance.

I did lose a chicken recently (probably to a skunk based on the smell). I trapped for about a week and took care of a skunk, a racoon, and a possum.

Montyhp

South TX

 

[preppy*hippie*chick]

It is best to end their suffering from a distance.

How are they suffering? Obviously they are if they have rabies - but how do you know? Not to be incendiary - just wondering.

 

[DiVon80]

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I agree w you on this.

Why relocate your problems.

 

[rancher hicks]

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Toast? did someone make toast? I could use some toast, you got eggs and home fries? dinner tonight wasn't that good I could go for some toast. you got any strawberry jam? It's my favorite. I also like apple jelly. Not rasberry though the seeds get stuck in my dentures, boy do they hurt. then I gotta go take them out and clean them. Yuk, poo!

 

[rachiegirl]

So many people seem to think that relocating is a wonderful and nice thing to do for the animal. I think that they never think about the fact that relocation can be more cruel (and dangerous)than putting them down. This is especially true if you are talking about an animal that has come from a city, or some like environment.
This is an animal that is used to people providing its food, i.e. garbage, chickens, pet food etc. and it is generally not very afraid of people. You catch the animal in a cage and you drive it out to the country and "relocate" it. How nice.
The animal is scared, hungry and lost. It now has to avoid the resident population that will relentlessly harass/kill any invaders, find shelter, and try to find its own food.
If there are any people unfortunate enough to be living in the area, they will now inherit the animal, as they see people as a food source, so to speak. Their garbage, pets, livestock etc. has now become fair game.
If there are no people around, this animal that is used to raiding garbage cans and bird feeders actually has to hunt for food. So many cannot cope and are killed in one way or another. Usually they starve to death, are killed by the resident of the territory or hit by a car. Some will succumb to disease and others will be shot.
The fate of former pets, dogs, cats and such; is usually worse all around. Not only for the animal itself but for anyone who lives in the area as well as resident wildlife. Feral animals are a huge problem in so many ways, especially when they pack up!
I am by no means saying that all relocated animals meet a grizzly end or turn into frothing packs of ravenous killers. That is certainly not the case. Thousands of animals are successfully and properly relocated every year. That, being the key word, properly!!
I just want people to stop and really think about all the consequences of something like relocating an animal.
I mean, It's hard enough on people to move, and as a general rule our neighbors don't try to kill us when we move into their neighborhood!

Well, most neighbors anyway.

Most of us don't play in traffic too often either.

 

[saddina]

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I should fess up, if you had asked my thoughts on this a year or two ago, I would've thought shooting "poor animals" is mean, even after getting mauled by a stray (and that's why my avitar is a smiley). But after reading what cute wildlife could do to my hends and my kids, I had to rethink my own beliefs. In the woods a racoon is a cute lil guy, in my yard next to my birds, it's a predator that doesn't fear people. I can't risk that it won't go after one of the kids.

Anyways, thought I should admit I was thinking abit wrong on this before.

Disclaimer: no animals were hurt in the making of my humble pie, just my own hubris.

 

[amazondoc]

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Keep in mind that *most* wild animals meet unpleasant ends of some sort or other -- whether they have been relocated or not. Very few wild animals get to quietly pass on of old age while lying snug in their beds.