How to dispatch trapped predator? (kinda graphic)

[theskyisfalling]

Here in TN i found out the Hard way that Animal control Don't mean the same thing as it did in MI. Here they tell you to Take care of it if its on your Property you have every right *TO DEAL WITH IT * In MI I would be in Jail for thinking it.

 

[MBLayfield]

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LOL that's how it is here too! I tried calling animal control once and the guy on the other end had me repeat myself twice, then he chuckled and said that I have the right to protect my property and gave me the number to the police department? I was shocked. All I was calling about was a loose dog on my property that had growled at me. I moved here from Denver and its totally different there! Its like a culture shock........

 

[gila_dog]

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That is the best advice so far. The most humane solution to the problem, and the simplest. Just be sure the trap is in a place where there's nothing alive or valuable behind it before you shoot.

Then get your shovel, dig a hole, and bury it.

Don't call animal control, don't tell the neighbors about it, just shut up about it.

Shoot, shovel, and shut up.

 

[Dodgegal79]

YEah Animal Control people and SPCA's will not deal with wild animals, they are there for domestics only.

 

[Citychick]

Yep! I agree! If it's attacking your livestock take care of it and fertilize the backlot. To each their own view but you have the right to eliminate a menace.

 

[greenmulberry]

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Wow, I had no idea that animal control took an interest in wild animals. I thought they only looked after pet type animals?

We technically don't have an animal control, as we live outside of city limits, but I can call the one in town and ask them if they will take it.

 

[greenmulberry]

For the record I am interested in the quickest, most humane way to dispatch it. I don't want to torment the thing, and I wouldn't kill it just for being there, but is so brutal in how it went after the hens I cannot risk having it around. I am normally fairly tolerant of predators. Really, if the mink took one hen, because it needed food, and that was the end of it, I would not be so upset. But I really believe that it was trying to kill all of the hens, based on what I saw and other people's experiences with minks. I don't want to drown it.

I found more mink footprints this morning. . .


I have found someone who hunts raccoons for pelts, who has a 22, she said that she thinks she could come and shoot it for me, she just wants to check with some other people about safety procedures when shooting something in a trap. I think we will be buying one of those high power pellet rifles as well.

 

[Moonwalker]

We use live traps for the rats in the barn. We submerge them in a barrel of water to drown them.
Although drowning is not the most humane way, it is quick efficient and has a lot of advantages over shooting, unless you can guarantee that you kill the animal with the first shot, rather than wounding it and having to repeat. Also takes care of the problems of damage to trap, and surroundings by buckshot, does not leave blood or feces on the trap to warn off the next predator.

 

[EggCentric]

Animal control won't deal with wild animals, call the game warden. They will come and take it away. (or they should, ours will)

 

[chcknrs]

In some states, animal control will NOT respond to wild animal calls, you have to pay for someone to come out, and it's usually expensive. Department of Wildlife will sometimes help when there is damage being done, but they are usually way understaffed.