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Nick



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PostPosted: Tue Sep 14, 10 9:23 am    Post subject: Trapping squirrels. Reply with quote
    

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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PostPosted: Tue Sep 14, 10 9:37 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

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



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PostPosted: Tue Sep 14, 10 9:38 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

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
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PostPosted: Tue Sep 14, 10 9:38 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

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
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PostPosted: Tue Sep 14, 10 9:47 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

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



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PostPosted: Tue Sep 14, 10 9:50 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

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

misty07



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PostPosted: Tue Sep 14, 10 9:52 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

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
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Location: Hereford
PostPosted: Tue Sep 14, 10 9:59 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

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

Brownbear



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PostPosted: Tue Sep 14, 10 10:00 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

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



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PostPosted: Tue Sep 14, 10 10:00 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

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


A link to what?

misty07



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PostPosted: Tue Sep 14, 10 10:05 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

just google the grey squirrel and im sure it would give you ammo to say its ileagle

Treacodactyl
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PostPosted: Tue Sep 14, 10 10:05 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

https://www.basc.org.uk/en/departments/game-and-gamekeeping/gamekeeping/basc-grey-squirrel-control.cfm

Nick



Joined: 02 Nov 2004
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PostPosted: Tue Sep 14, 10 10:18 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

ta.

king rat



Joined: 29 Nov 2007
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PostPosted: Tue Sep 14, 10 6:52 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

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



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PostPosted: Tue Sep 14, 10 7:04 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

If you aren't prepared to kill it then why trap it? Whats the point?

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