Trackers On Badgers

[MIK 4,756]

Why is the badger baiter wearing a balaclava?.....set up

[steve t 922]

I know the lad that snares around here, flat out when cubs are being born, encourages lads to shoot them on lamp and he collects them to keep his numbers up, also dishes out snares to lads for same reason, its pitifull to find them in snares, they go round in circles and dig a round trench, how can this be better than digging and dealing quickly and humanely with them?

[undertaker 831]

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Never seen the program, gona try get it back on the Rte player, how long ago was it on? it was on living the wild life about a month ago

[tinytiger 822]

What a load of rubbish.

Firstly the photo of the "badger baiter" is obviously staged.

Next, if there is actually someone involved in badger baiting why would they need to risk carrying live badgers through or around the city of Dublin down to a place that's already full of badgers and is a well known TB hotspot.

Descriptions of badger baiting taking place in sheds in pits has been used now for 40 years by journalists and anti with vivid imaginations.

How come there hasn't been one raid or any footage in all those years of a pit in a shed used for badger baiting, let alone convictions ?

Does anyone remember the newspaper article where the clown in the RSPCA described a shed with a pit and the floor was covered in betting slips ?

Or the story where the lactating sow was in the pit and the baiters were holding up her cubs to make her fight harder (no one mentioned that the badger has terrible eyesight and can only see a few feet in front of it's nose) ?

All stories with no proof but it's worrying that there's a fresh attack on terrier work.

 

I'll tell you what is cruel regarding badgers though ?

Leaving them in a snare for 2 or 3 days before shooting them, but that's OK because it's carried out legally by cowboys employed by the Irish government.

was that back around 1994/5

[Lenmcharristar 9,719]

What a load of rubbish.

Firstly the photo of the "badger baiter" is obviously staged.

Next, if there is actually someone involved in badger baiting why would they need to risk carrying live badgers through or around the city of Dublin down to a place that's already full of badgers and is a well known TB hotspot.

Descriptions of badger baiting taking place in sheds in pits has been used now for 40 years by journalists and anti with vivid imaginations.

How come there hasn't been one raid or any footage in all those years of a pit in a shed used for badger baiting, let alone convictions ?

Does anyone remember the newspaper article where the clown in the RSPCA described a shed with a pit and the floor was covered in betting slips ?

Or the story where the lactating sow was in the pit and the baiters were holding up her cubs to make her fight harder (no one mentioned that the badger has terrible eyesight and can only see a few feet in front of it's nose) ?

All stories with no proof but it's worrying that there's a fresh attack on terrier work.

 

I'll tell you what is cruel regarding badgers though ?

Leaving them in a snare for 2 or 3 days before shooting them, but that's OK because it's carried out legally by cowboys employed by the Irish government.

spot on, common sense is never the strong point of the media. All fcukin rats the lot of them.