GardenBanter.co.uk - View Single Post

01-05-2006, 02:42 PM posted to rec.gardens

wrote in
oups.com:

Sounds like trap and release is the suggested method.

NO!!!!! trap & release is not suggested (except by complete
idiots that know nothing about wildlife).
first, if you don't want it, then no one else wants the
problem either.
second, trap & release is a slow death to the animal, who will
be in a strange location & need to dig a burrow/find a home,
won't know where food is & will likely have to fight a
resident animal for it anyway.
third, you don't know what diseases the animal may be a
carrier of & you will be transporting those diseases to a new
area, where the local population may not have immunity.
there are *reasons* trap & release elsewhere are illegal &
carry fines.
just shoot the trapped animal in the head, pointblank, with
an air rifle & long point.

.22 is out - not legal.

fine, use an air rifle. i've used one on a fox. they aren't
tougher than groundhogs.

I had a friend that used the drowning method on rats that
ended up in his trap. They were a lot smaller than
groundhogs.... The truth is that drowning gives me the
creeps more than a quick headshot....

it's less humane than a headshot. besides, do you have a
bucket big enough to get the entire live trap submerged?

lee
--
If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the
guise of
fighting a foreign enemy. -James Madison, fourth US president
(1751-1836)