Mustelids in New Zealand

[toolebox 1,570]

We try to use a wild hob for any breeding every 3/4 years as it helps the stock from becoming interbred and adds fire to their offspring. Well we did when the law allowed the breeding, gifting and the selling of ferrets. The days any of that carry on, would now attract a huge fine. There would not be any more than 10 people keeping ferrets now and once this "predator free" program swings into action that will be the end of keeping of ferrets. The government has plans to spend a billion Dollars to remove all predators from New Zealand. This list incudes ALL ferrets, stoats, weasels and rats, every single one of them, using all known methods but leaning towards using a poison known as 1080,one that's deadly and without an antidote. It's tasteless, odourless and colourless and will kill anything that eats the pellets that are commonly delivered via aerial operations. They have also been setting up neighbourhood groups that agree to have and check backyard traps .The councils have done a great job of demonising these predators by setting up programs in schools where the children are brainwashed into thinking that these animals are bad, cold-blooded killers that will kill on sight any animal that moves. I don't support these measures due to a mistrust of Government departments that, if this is at all possible, then would come after all of our game animals. The plan I think is to remove all induced animals and birds in the long term, thank god I won't be around to this mess.

[WataWalloper 951]

Any jobs going haha no seriously  I’d gladly come help trap them rather than poison your land 

[Aussie Whip 4,145]

8 hours ago, toolebox said:

We try to use a wild hob for any breeding every 3/4 years as it helps the stock from becoming interbred and adds fire to their offspring. Well we did when the law allowed the breeding, gifting and the selling of ferrets. The days any of that carry on, would now attract a huge fine. There would not be any more than 10 people keeping ferrets now and once this "predator free" program swings into action that will be the end of keeping of ferrets. The government has plans to spend a billion Dollars to remove all predators from New Zealand. This list incudes ALL ferrets, stoats, weasels and rats, every single one of them, using all known methods but leaning towards using a poison known as 1080,one that's deadly and without an antidote. It's tasteless, odourless and colourless and will kill anything that eats the pellets that are commonly delivered via aerial operations. They have also been setting up neighbourhood groups that agree to have and check backyard traps .The councils have done a great job of demonising these predators by setting up programs in schools where the children are brainwashed into thinking that these animals are bad, cold-blooded killers that will kill on sight any animal that moves. I don't support these measures due to a mistrust of Government departments that, if this is at all possible, then would come after all of our game animals. The plan I think is to remove all induced animals and birds in the long term, thank god I won't be around to this mess.

That's a shame not being allowed to keep ferrets soon. They don't survive long over here in the wild, mange gets them. Even so, ferrets are banned in Queensland even though no wild population has ever been known, crazy stuff. I hate the use of 1080, it kills heaps of native animals and birds as well as your dogs as plenty of farmers don't bother putting up warning signs.

[Aycliffe-Ferreter 7]

Well that’s sad to read, maybe you can leave the country and lay a brick on your way out   

[toolebox 1,570]

On 22/02/2025 at 22:37, Aycliffe-Ferreter said:

Well that’s sad to read, maybe you can leave the country and lay a brick on your way out   

I'm looking for a bolthole, a place without this overwhelming control along with drowning levels of B/s. This coming generation doesn't miss and value what they have never had /lived or known. Their world is right now and normal, sitting down in front of the telly and watching bombs and rockets raining down on homes, churches cafés where the whole buildings disappear in a cloud of dust, smoke and fire, families wiped out, soldiers hunted down by done's forcing anyone that wants to live to hide down under ground like a troop of rats, and no one appears to care ,more important is making sure no one takes their dog out and lets the wolf do as its always has done, hunt down and chase its prey.... and we are told that'this is really wrong by some roff sitting above all others dressed in a stupid white wig, a black robe and addressed as my Lord. FFs the smelly old git, the only thing he's done that he considers hard is to open a tin of smoked salmon and get his slippers out of the cupboard ..........Oh how we have slipped, under the threat of a huge fine, a jail term or a ban from engaging in what was our chosen way of life......feck em I say feck them all.

Edited yesterday at 10:03 by toolebox