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Nick

Joined: 02 Nov 2004
Posts: 34535
Location: Hereford

Posted: Tue Sep 14, 10 9:23 am Post subject: Trapping squirrels.
If you do so, do you have to kill them, or not? Not for me, but something someone I know is doing (and relocating).

Treacodactyl
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Joined: 28 Oct 2004
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Location: Jumping on the bandwagon of opportunism

Posted: Tue Sep 14, 10 9:37 am Post subject:
Greys in the UK must be humanely killed and not released. I gather you can release under licence but that seems to be mostly done by some charities.

Brownbear

Joined: 28 May 2007
Posts: 14929
Location: South West

Posted: Tue Sep 14, 10 9:38 am Post subject:
The law says it is a crime to release them. However, the chances of being caught and charged are zero. Far better I think to use the moral argument that they are giving someone else the problem they want to avoid.

Green Man

Joined: 23 Jul 2006
Posts: 5272
Location: Rural Scotland.

Posted: Tue Sep 14, 10 9:38 am Post subject:
I asked our Police Wild Life Officer and he told me that you must kill them humanely. He suggested. Gulp, Brace yourselves, put a garden fork through it while still in the trap. He said it is against the law to release a trapped grey squirrel.

misty07

Joined: 22 Jan 2010
Posts: 2223
Location: swindon wiltshire

Posted: Tue Sep 14, 10 9:47 am Post subject:
get a .22 air rifle and head shot it while its trapped i have seen it done by a person releasing a squirrel into a pillow case and then got a baseball bat and clubbed it that way

Brownbear

Joined: 28 May 2007
Posts: 14929
Location: South West

Posted: Tue Sep 14, 10 9:50 am Post subject:
I take them out of the trap (wearing welding gauntlet to protect my hand) and cosh them with a maul.

misty07

Joined: 22 Jan 2010
Posts: 2223
Location: swindon wiltshire

Posted: Tue Sep 14, 10 9:52 am Post subject:

Brownbear wrote:

I take them out of the trap (wearing welding gauntlet to protect my hand) and cosh them with a maul.

or that way works lol what you do with the bodies?

Nick

Joined: 02 Nov 2004
Posts: 34535
Location: Hereford

Posted: Tue Sep 14, 10 9:59 am Post subject:
As I thought. Anyone point me to a web link I can offer up?

Brownbear

Joined: 28 May 2007
Posts: 14929
Location: South West

Posted: Tue Sep 14, 10 10:00 am Post subject:

daddymatty82 wrote:

Brownbear wrote:

I take them out of the trap (wearing welding gauntlet to protect my hand) and cosh them with a maul.

or that way works lol what you do with the bodies?

I give 'em to Tom. He has great fun tossing them in the air by their tails and catching them as they descend. He's far more dextrous than most street jugglers.

Brownbear

Joined: 28 May 2007
Posts: 14929
Location: South West

Posted: Tue Sep 14, 10 10:00 am Post subject:

Nick wrote:

As I thought. Anyone point me to a web link I can offer up?

A link to what?

misty07

Joined: 22 Jan 2010
Posts: 2223
Location: swindon wiltshire

Posted: Tue Sep 14, 10 10:05 am Post subject:
just google the grey squirrel and im sure it would give you ammo to say its ileagle

Treacodactyl
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Posted: Tue Sep 14, 10 10:05 am Post subject:
https://www.basc.org.uk/en/departments/game-and-gamekeeping/gamekeeping/basc-grey-squirrel-control.cfm

Nick

Joined: 02 Nov 2004
Posts: 34535
Location: Hereford

Posted: Tue Sep 14, 10 10:18 am Post subject:
ta.

king rat

Joined: 29 Nov 2007
Posts: 79

Posted: Tue Sep 14, 10 6:52 pm Post subject:

It is an offence under the wildlife and countryside act to re release a grey squirrel, however as someone pointed out there are some charities that can release them. The RSPCA fought this one and the example they made was that should a grey squirrel be caught by it's foot in a garden bird feeder then is it technically trapped ?. Should it be killed as such though ?? They argued the case well and now in certain circumstances a squirrel may be released with out breaking the law.

Duckhead

Joined: 24 Oct 2009
Posts: 2069
Location: Up the hill, Italy

Posted: Tue Sep 14, 10 7:04 pm Post subject:
If you aren't prepared to kill it then why trap it? Whats the point?

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