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I once worked on a dairy farm in N.Z South island West coast.

One of my jobs was running the trap lines around the farm and into the bush for invasive species control.

Old style leg holds which are banned in the U.K

The possums we had to catch live so we could knock them on the head before plucking them whilst still warm. The choice fur would sell for up to $150 per kilo and for that we needed about 20 possums. The body we chucked into the bush.

Feral cats were a big problem for native birds and these often turned up in our traps as well as weasels and stoats.

These we gave a belt to the head after pinning them down with a forked stick.

Hedgehogs are another pest and have become diurnal walking about during the day. These we hit with sticks or just stamped on. Kittens regularly turned up in litters even though we where 50km from town! I will probally go to hell for all those I dispatched with a belt to the head.

Here in France, I trapped 6 kittens this year but left it to madame renee to dispatch them. Probally turned them into pate de chaton...

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Okay I've just noticed the black tip on the tail. Stoats and Weasel's keep Rabbit numbers down. Watch the Rabbit population grow now you're killing the Stoat's.

 

no, cos we'll shoot the rabbits along with the foxs. What you mean to say is watch the gloden plover and the oyster catches and the English partridge and the lap wings and the curlew numbers grow all of which are not in abundance:thumbdown::thumbup:

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