mmmm, that it should be. a sport that is... just about everyone in northern australia knows what a toad looks like... there should be monthly competitions like fishing comps. whoever brings back the most toads wins. the best prize for me would just be the satisfaction of good night with lots of carnage... in NQ you will be fined by the RSPCA for clubing a toad these days...
they believe they deserve a humain death only because the greenies cryied a bit to much... i'm all for conservation of native wildlife and the environment and so on but beleive they can carry things a little bit to far, they are more the extremist in some cases.... cane toads are a good example, fair enough clubbing is cruel.... but it's a pest and they need to be eradicated. but it's a hard and long road for that and bleeding hearts only make it longer with no end result but the population spreading further and faster.
tell me how many people you know that will freeze them??? honestly! how many?
i know bugger all... as they think it is grose or they will die from the poison bla bla.
if the morons that introduced them were still alive then well perhaps it would be them getting flogged, but that still doesn't solve the issue now does it????
disease is a method, but whats there to back up that some wont have an immunity or develope 1 to that strain of disease.... i know our researchers are on this case and working out ways to not encounter problems of the past like a disease that also wipes out other fauna, are chemical they
become resiliant to and kills other wildlife even as some of the native animals have worked out to eat the belly side of an adult toad... but still very few that could wipe them out as well.
it's called proper education, something that isn't out there these days. and shutting up the bleeding hearts, yes they are a living animal, but they don't belong and the first person i will blame for some monitors goin extinct or becoming endangered due to the toad population will be those that say DON"T KILL TOADS... sad fact of life, get over it
just so you know, they only way i've ever killed toads is by running over them if it's safe, and a ball bearing in the top of the skull, or little lead pellet. oh and freezing them.
like it was said, there should be a sport. bag them alive so that anything mistaken for a toad like some burrowing and marsh frogs at least has a chance of not being clubed and make it a monthly thing. the most wins, penalties for anything but a toad..... that would push education of them!!.... also that the only animal i would be considered "cruel" against rabbits would be my other 1 but i havent shot 1 of those for years... oh and the feral pig... i know my methods arent favourable by some but they are a minority, if we were more concerned about the spread of the buggers and not how to erradicate them then maybe the spread may have been slowed down and provided time for the scientist to come up with an effective and safe way to erradicate them
post was by me shnakeyguy.... not shnakey girl. i'm just on her pc and forgot to logout and go in on my profile so rag me if your to rag any1
In answer to your question, I dont know anybody that freezes them, as Im inland from where they occur. I know a few people on the coast where Cane Toads do occur and most of these people do very little about them. If anything, they do as you do...drive over them.
A sport in ther instance of how many you get within a certain time frame is good. What you have suggested does actually run in different parts of the country. As I understood, there was even some funding about to run these programs! If your interested Im sure EPA etc could point you in the right direction if its still available.
Looking at your argument concerning toads dont belong here so they should all be killed. Does that work for causcasions in this country too? Perhaps Cats? Cattle? Sheep? Or is it only nonhuman animals that impact wildlife? Bit one sided dont you think?
I wonder how many people actually say DONT KILL TOADS? And why would you bring that into the conversation? I know I never said it.....havent heard anybody say it.
I noticed in your reply you failed to address appropriately my concerns about the fact that you argued that clubbing to death of Cane Toads as a right and just thing to do.
You did mention RSPCA, so you do know that it is an illegal activity, which you are promoting which is good.
You did look at alternatives that dont seem to be working yet, such as cnemicals, disease etc...
You mentioned and inferred, as the minority are promoting humane killing, they should not be listened too. You are saying majority rules. So Truth/Quality comes down to majority....Ethics is a little bit deeper then that. One case in point: Just because the majority of people in Australia
choose to be overweight, does not make it a wise choice for ones health and lifestyle to
choose to join them and be overweight....the majority are not always right/quality.
Also, do you really truely believe that promoting a competition for Toad catching
or alternatively, promoting clubbing to death, would have the same positive results in reduction of toad numbers? Or are you trying to get the people who want to truely make a difference humanely, plus the people who just want to inflict cruelty on another animal?
Regarding your comment of 'shutting up the bleeding hearts', how would you like to do that? Cruelty involved perhaps?
Was that a ragging or a discussion or...?