Trapping Rabbits And Squirrels

[Joe1888 672]

getting a few rabbits again this year with the live traps, have also been catching the odd squirrel and having to let it go.. the land owner now says hed prefer to get rid of them aswell... how do you humanly dispatch a trapped squirrel? cheers

[Joe1888 672]

Air gun mate

 

only thing i could think of aswell, i sold up before the law was passed up here. not an option for now. cheers

[EDDIE B 3,168]

It's actually illegal to release invasive's back into the countryside here in Ireland

[walshie 2,804]

It's illegal to release grey squirrels in the UK too.

 

Best buy a sack and rounders bat Joe.

[MR TEA POT 1,287]

Use kill traps if you can....unless you got reds in area

[MR TEA POT 1,287]

It's actually illegal to release invasive's back into the countryside here in Ireland

I've just realised who you are lol just confirmed it with you good lady lol

[EDDIE B 3,168]

 

It's actually illegal to release invasive's back into the countryside here in Ireland

I've just realised who you are lol just confirmed it with you good lady lol

Small world eh! Lol

[The one 8,530]

Joe that would be a reasonable excuse to have a airgun ?> or as said pop in a sack and good night but no in front of the land owner

[Joe1888 672]

Joe that would be a reasonable excuse to have a airgun ?> or as said pop in a sack and good night but no in front of the land owner

 

 

sure would be mate, had to sell up before for a few reasons. might get another in future. am not trying to trap them, f****rs keep trying to steal the apples. would sack and wack be ok in the eyes of the law?

[micky 3,325]

If you have to ask advice about topping a squirrel you should never be out on your own catching rabbits

[MR TEA POT 1,287]

 

 

It's actually illegal to release invasive's back into the countryside here in Ireland

I've just realised who you are lol just confirmed it with you good lady lol

Certainly is lol

Small world eh! Lol

[Torquemada 288]

If you have to ask advice about topping a squirrel you should never be out on your own catching rabbits

 

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Edited March 19, 2017 by Torquemada

[The one 8,530]

Aye go for it joe see if you can get a nice hessian sack and keep it in the motor for such a thing then give them a nice centre parting , far easier though putting a divider in a cage trap and shooting them in the head with a pellet .

Watch what your doing with that one as well it was in the papers no long ago somebody took three shoots to kill a squirrel and the R.S.P.C.A. where autopsying it to see if it died in pain ie no witnesses

[Joe1888 672]

Aye go for it joe see if you can get a nice hessian sack and keep it in the motor for such a thing then give them a nice centre parting , far easier though putting a divider in a cage trap and shooting them in the head with a pellet .

Watch what your doing with that one as well it was in the papers no long ago somebody took three shoots to kill a squirrel and the R.S.P.C.A. where autopsying it to see if it died in pain ie no witnesses

 

sounds like a plan, cheers

[Phil Lloyd 10,738]

If you are live trapping a critter,..your first priority is to kill the captive, as quick as....

With Grey squirrels,...perhaps employ the sack method....

 

Place the sack over the cage entrance,..tilt the trap slightly upwards and allow the animal to bolt into the sack.

Then,.grip the sack and twist it shut.

Gently,... feel for the squirrel and when you have located his neck,...just dislocate the vertebra,..same as you would a netted rabbit..

 

Quick, clean,..and above all,...humane...

 

 

Edited March 20, 2017 by Phil Lloyd