Humane Trapping of Predators... I Am Confused

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Put up a electric fence yesterday and came home today to a dead squirrel, hope it was the one that feasted on my garden last year.
 
Oh my, this is off topic, but I'm in love again.
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Personally, I love off topic. I did a study years ago, the results of which supported that internet threads are normally resolved in under 10 postings. After that, they inevitably veer of topic.
Think of it like puttin a bunch of people in a room and starting them talking on some topic. It wont be long before at least some of them will be talking about something different.

Some people seem to hate this on internet forums; I guess it offends their sense of propriety. Why this matters in an anonymous digital medium is another question.
NOTE: When I asked THAT question during my research, it was also resolved to my satisfaction within - you guessed it - 10 posts.

Others folks don't really care, and just go with the flow. They just want to participate, essentially. Its all fun to them.

Now to get his back on topic :) I reckon there are only two reasons to trap animals around the farm hold - to eat them or to eliminate them as a threat.
Either way, their death is always effected in a quick, clean and therefore humane manner.
 
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What kind of a charger are you using. Electric fencing shouldn't kill anything.

Would it be a problem if it did?.... I mean they're predators.
Oh wait, zapping the neighbors cat, or children, into the afterlife might not be a good thing....
 
Personally, I love off topic. I did a study years ago, the results of which supported that internet threads are normally resolved in under 10 postings.

Some people seem to hate this on internet forums; I guess it offends their sense of propriety. Why this matters in an anonymous digital medium is another question.
NOTE: When I asked THAT question during my research, it was also resolved to my satisfaction within - you guessed it - 10 posts.

Now to get his back on topic :) I reckon there are only two reasons to trap animals around the farm hold - to eat them or to eliminate them as a threat.
Either way, their death is always effected in a quick, clean and therefore humane manner.

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I think this one was answered...like you said: " ...Quick, clean, and humane!" However, we might have got off track before it was "correctly" answered in the first ten lol. Yet, I support your research
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as top predator i think it our job to remind animals lower in the pecking order (vermin like fox, coyotes, bear, whatever else wants to mess with my livestock) who is boss. fear and death are wonderful deterrents (that's what guardian animals are for to make other animals afraid to come closer). i don't see why people are afraid to exterminate a dangerous animal. look at all the lives saved in the long run by wiping out mountain lions form the east coast the few that do remain are so afraid of people that they refuse to attack people or livestock.

top predators don't tolerate competitors in there domain and it can be good in the long run. The return of wolves to Yellowstone helped raise the pronghorn and aspen tree population where they patrol by thinning out the coyote population removed the pronghorns top predator from areas letting them rebound. and aspen tree where able to grow thanks to wolves scaring the elk out of the young aspen groves.

Here is a question for discussion...Wolves in Yellowstone I can see...But what about wolves in Wisconsin? Over the last 20 years our DNR has planted with success many packs. However, we no longer have the northern wooded acres teaming with moose, blacktail deer, elk, nor the southern prairie teaming with bison and pronhorn. The fore mentioned were 5/6 of the wolves' standard prey at the time of First Contact in the late 17th early 18th century. Now we just have Whitetail Deer which are being wiped out by the dynamic wolves, poorly managed deer harvest(thanks to our DNR), and a booming Black Bear pop. The WI hunters were doing just fine controling the deer herd without the help from the bears(they eat many fawns here) and now wolves that have only one original prey species left. Well now we have a small herd of deer to harvest, and the wolves are hunting livestock. You can"t blame them either they don"t know any better. BUT OUR DNR SHOULD STOP TRYING TO PLAY GOD. On a lighter note we just hired someone from Texas to try and set things right. I hope he is well read in historical facts.
 
While were on the subject of "Save the whatever..." has anyone besides me noticed that the save the seals movement has died out? Wanna know why?
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Yeah, we've moved on to "save the polar bears" for some reason. Remember back in the late 70's, Greenpeace went out and spray painted a bunch of seals red so their pelts were useless to hunters? The seals were easily spotted by polar bears and every one of them were eaten. Even as a 8-9 year old I saw the comical irony in the situation.
 
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