nuttylizardguy
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Saw this ,
Victoria's RSPCA investigates alleged animal cruelty after pet cat found in illegal leghold trap
https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/aust...egal-leghold-trap/ar-BB14U8Q4?ocid=spartandhp
and of cause , ultimately the fault lays with the cat's owner who let the bloody cat out to roam about freely and to kill and torture anything it can catch . BUT THIS ASPECT is not even mentioned in the story.
The focus of the story is outrage over cruel treatment of the cat .
Well yes , using a wire leg trap is a pretty bloody cruel way to trap any animal.
I've seen what it does, as a kid in the 60s and 70s, we caught rabbits using wire snares, and spring loaded jaw traps. NASTY injuries inflicted , but we never left the trapped rabbits to suffer and dispatched them quickly by snapping their necks ( we were catching them to eat when camping ), we caught foxes the same way ( they took a 22 round in the temple to finish them) , and when I was old enough to hunting pigs with my dad , wild pigs too ( a 303 round at short range between the eyes sorted them out ).
BUT I can understand why someone would do this , especially if they've asked the owner to control the cat very frequently TO CONTROL IT only to be fogged off or worse ( be told to bugger off and stop picking on their cat , and " cats will be cats , get over it " ) , MAYBE even trapped it in an RSPCA approved trap ie
https://www.amazon.com.au/Possum-Pe...qmt=e&keywords=cat+trap&qid=1591098081&sr=8-1
and then had the RSPCA or council ranger collect it ( only to return it the owner if it's microchipped - bummer !! ) , good luck trapping a cat again after it's been trapped once .
So the cat keeps coming back , keeps on mating under the house, under the bloody bedroom window, digging up the garden , ****ting all over the place, killing pet birds, killing wild reptiles, frogs, birds, smaller native animals on your proper …. what to do ? ( a single cat can kill every single lizard , frog, ground nesting bird , ) in entire residential area as far as 10 residential blocks away from it's home ) ,and I've seen a cat pull a full grown possum out of a tree …. so this person decided to catch it the only way they could ( good luck buying steel-jawed trap without a permit , and unfortunately someone discovered trapped cat and now it's become big issue and very likely person who trapped the cat will end up in front a magistrate and like cop a huge fine all because some idiot cat owner refused to accept responsibility for keeping the cat controlled properly.
Personally I'd like to see it made legal to bait free roaming domestic and stray cats in urban areas , too many of the vermin about and too many cat owners are idiots.
Victoria's RSPCA investigates alleged animal cruelty after pet cat found in illegal leghold trap
https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/aust...egal-leghold-trap/ar-BB14U8Q4?ocid=spartandhp
and of cause , ultimately the fault lays with the cat's owner who let the bloody cat out to roam about freely and to kill and torture anything it can catch . BUT THIS ASPECT is not even mentioned in the story.
The focus of the story is outrage over cruel treatment of the cat .
Well yes , using a wire leg trap is a pretty bloody cruel way to trap any animal.
I've seen what it does, as a kid in the 60s and 70s, we caught rabbits using wire snares, and spring loaded jaw traps. NASTY injuries inflicted , but we never left the trapped rabbits to suffer and dispatched them quickly by snapping their necks ( we were catching them to eat when camping ), we caught foxes the same way ( they took a 22 round in the temple to finish them) , and when I was old enough to hunting pigs with my dad , wild pigs too ( a 303 round at short range between the eyes sorted them out ).
BUT I can understand why someone would do this , especially if they've asked the owner to control the cat very frequently TO CONTROL IT only to be fogged off or worse ( be told to bugger off and stop picking on their cat , and " cats will be cats , get over it " ) , MAYBE even trapped it in an RSPCA approved trap ie
https://www.amazon.com.au/Possum-Pe...qmt=e&keywords=cat+trap&qid=1591098081&sr=8-1
and then had the RSPCA or council ranger collect it ( only to return it the owner if it's microchipped - bummer !! ) , good luck trapping a cat again after it's been trapped once .
So the cat keeps coming back , keeps on mating under the house, under the bloody bedroom window, digging up the garden , ****ting all over the place, killing pet birds, killing wild reptiles, frogs, birds, smaller native animals on your proper …. what to do ? ( a single cat can kill every single lizard , frog, ground nesting bird , ) in entire residential area as far as 10 residential blocks away from it's home ) ,and I've seen a cat pull a full grown possum out of a tree …. so this person decided to catch it the only way they could ( good luck buying steel-jawed trap without a permit , and unfortunately someone discovered trapped cat and now it's become big issue and very likely person who trapped the cat will end up in front a magistrate and like cop a huge fine all because some idiot cat owner refused to accept responsibility for keeping the cat controlled properly.
Personally I'd like to see it made legal to bait free roaming domestic and stray cats in urban areas , too many of the vermin about and too many cat owners are idiots.
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