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13 years ago
-sigh- don't you just love it when you're on a walk with a couple of uni friends, walking on a public footpath through a field and see a wire box trap with 3 or 4 live crows in it....... wtf right..... watch them and debate what to do for about 10 minutes and come to the conclusion to research it when you get back... walk down the road for 5 seconds and find 1 skeleton.... no wait... 2... 3? 4, 5, 6, 7?!! dead crows, all scattered down this path....... but all at different stages of decaying, so they obviously died at separate times....
what.... the ... acutual... fuck?
Turns out, after 30 mins or so of research, poisoning crows (is what I suspected) is illegal, however trapping and shooting is legal... HOWEVER the trap must say clearly it is legal, it should have a decoy bird in it, it should have food, water and shelter and be rather large....................... this trap just looked like a basic mammal trap.... so yeah, authorities were called and we were told that the welfare officer will check it out....... don;t know if we're gonna find out what happens though =/
-sigh- I hate humans sometimes -.-
(All of this going on just 1 field away from my university where it is crawling with animal welfare and behaviourists......... clever!)
Anyway, sorry I havent uploaded anything in like forever people.... been reeeeeeally busy and it's exam time here at uni, then it's the holidays (YAAAAAAY!!!)
what.... the ... acutual... fuck?
Turns out, after 30 mins or so of research, poisoning crows (is what I suspected) is illegal, however trapping and shooting is legal... HOWEVER the trap must say clearly it is legal, it should have a decoy bird in it, it should have food, water and shelter and be rather large....................... this trap just looked like a basic mammal trap.... so yeah, authorities were called and we were told that the welfare officer will check it out....... don;t know if we're gonna find out what happens though =/
-sigh- I hate humans sometimes -.-
(All of this going on just 1 field away from my university where it is crawling with animal welfare and behaviourists......... clever!)
Anyway, sorry I havent uploaded anything in like forever people.... been reeeeeeally busy and it's exam time here at uni, then it's the holidays (YAAAAAAY!!!)
Hope you took pictures too as the evidence might disappear.
Anyway, hope you do well in the exams.
Well, looking at the google images when I searched "larson trap", it looked kinda like the tiny metal wire ones.... but I don't think there was a decoy bird in it cos it was just one section.... there wasn't that middle bit like in the pictures..... you could see the crows trying everyway to get out and jump to either end =/
Also, I read the liscence agreement, as it's under the wildlife and countryside act 1981, that you have to dispose of the carcassess properly... ie; not throw them down a public pathway.... so if they're not guilty of the trap, they'd be breaking that agreement at least...