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"BAC" wrote in message ... "Alan Holmes" wrote in message ... ups.com... In what way is it illegal to kill vermin by drowning them? One of the best ways I would have thought. I believe it is illegal to drown humans, but grey squirrels? It was technically made illegal by virtue of the Wild Mammals Protection Act 1996 which included drowning amongst the list of abuses outlawed from 30th April 1997. I don't know whether the RSPCA has actually brought charges against anyone for drowning a wild mammal, though, or if they have, whether the perpetrator was convicted. It is the method recomended by the Forestry Commistion for the disposal of this type of vermin. Is it? Do you have a reference for that? Did you perhaps receive that advice prior to April 1997? Please enlighten me, what happened on April 1997. The Wild Mammals Protection Act 1996 came into force, as previously stated. I was speculating it might be possible, that, as a consequence of deliberate drowning being listed as an abuse, the FC may have amended its position regarding despatch of grey squirrels by drowning. I have asked the RSPCA whether, in their opinion, drowning of grey squirrels is a humane form of killing live trapped squirrels, and their response was that the squirrels should be despatched either by shooting or by a lethal blow to the head. Did they say exactly how one would be able to restrain it to administer a blow to the head? As to shooting it, it would still have to be made to be still, the traps are about 6 inches square and about two feet long, the squirrels can go from end to end at about three times a second, it would be very difficult to aim the gun at the squirrel to make a shot kill the thing, it is more likely that it would be wounded, so one would have to reload, and try again with the distinct possiblity that it would be wounded again. This could well take considerably longer that the ten seconds it takes to drown the thing, and all this time it would be in great pain, how does that tie up with being humane? |
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