RODENATOR

[devonlad 0]

As we all know there are no shortcuts to doing a good, responsible, respectful and "traditional job" ! I find this a completely bizarre and OTT system ! with apparently no regulation ! I can perhaps see its benefit in the USA with vast areas of prairie undermined by prairie dogs etc.. but as a method that is where it should remain, in the USA !!

[TOMO 26,005]

there is a lot already about this on here, click the search at the top corner.

 

i wrote a big piece about it that i cant be aresed to do again, sufice to say it doesnt even work properly, my mate witnessed 2 rats and a vixen run from 3 difrent warrens after the expostion . this was on a demo. wich was witnessed by 7-8 farmers and keepers. none of them bought the machine after this demo. wich was good.

 

also there are a number of these for sale second hand regularly in the farming papers, this tels me there no good , as most farmers hang on to the oldest tools.

[Guest flipflop]

thats good to hear tomo,because if it does work,it could leave us all short of sport eventually

[Eunectes 0]

This is the first time i've ever acually seen the things and quite aside from the alleged inhumanity of the things, after looking at a few of the vids on youtube there's no way I'll be considering going near one. I singed my eyebrows off enough times as a teenager and have no great desire to do so again!

 

It is interesting that the company's website deffinately hints strongly towards the rodenator being used for pest control rather than just tunnel destruction.

[zig zag wanderer 0]

rodenators are, from my admittedly fairly limited experience, a useful and practical tool for the control of large numbers of warren dwelling pest species.

This just shows an absolute ignorance of the law. This is totally illegal.

 

i don't work in pest control but help with gamekeeping and estate work - the commercial use of rodenators might be different from ours but i should think its much the same.

There is no difference - still totally illegal I'm afraid.

 

Now I have friends that are or have been gamekeepers but I have to say (controvertially) that as a profession (and I use the term very loosely) thay have little regard for wildlife or the law. As long as their means justify their aims, anything goes and they know that unless someone grasses on them they will never be found out.

[J Darcy 5,871]

The sooner the use of these are banned the better IMO. I have seen the damage they do to the countryside first hand and i do not like them one iota. They kill non target animals too and i hate that. How many innocent and non-pest species have to die before they are banned?

[OldTrapCollector 377]

How much???

 

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/2008-Rodenator-Pro-p...A1%7C240%3A1318

 

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