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On Mon, 1 Mar 2004 13:46:11 GMT, Jaques d'Alltrades wrote:

Nowadays in the UK, snares have to have a stop to prevent the animal
choking itself to death.

Erm, is that the whole idea of a snare?

The idea is to catch the animal, not to kill it (slowly).

You can give it the chop when you find it, or do what ever you intended
to do with it. It's also an insurance against assassinating Miss Povey's
Prize Persian - thobut I wouldn't fancy the job of releasing it......

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