Ban Snares, please sign petition

[squeek]

please go to Ban Snares and sign the petition to stop snaring in scotland.

thanks

[Tracey.A]

Hi Squeek, just signed it.

Tracey

[salukiwhippet]

Why?

James

[SusieBee]

Just signed

Thanks for starting thread Squeek

Cheers SusieBee

[squeek]

Thanks and you're welcome SusieBee

[squeek]

Originally Posted by Tracey.A

Hi Squeek, just signed it.

Tracey

Thankyou Tracey.

[muldonach]

Originally Posted by squeek

please go to Ban Snares and sign the petition to stop snaring in scotland.

thanks

Nope - far too useful a tool in the toolbox and nothing inhumane in properly used snares - even on occasion used by scientists to capture "subjects".

There is a good code of practice, together with specific legislation, for their use and, in my view no justification for a blanket ban.

If you find evidence that snaring in contravention of legislation or codes of best practice is happening then contact your local wildlife liaision officer or RSPCA / SSPCA as appropriate.

You might also do well to take into account that there are people trying to earn a living in the countryside and that foxes to a certain extent impinge on their interests and those of the animals and birds that they seek to protect.

Further there are species in the Uk struggling for survival and requiring protection from predation - as practiced by conservation bodies.

Regards
Mac

[eeyore]

Originally Posted by muldonach

Nope - far too useful a tool in the toolbox and nothing inhumane in properly used snares - even on occasion used by scientists to capture "subjects".

There is a good code of practice, together with specific legislation, for their use and, in my view no justification for a blanket ban.

If you find evidence that snaring in contravention of legislation or codes of best practice is happening then contact your local wildlife liaision officer or RSPCA / SSPCA as appropriate.

You might also do well to take into account that there are people trying to earn a living in the countryside and that foxes to a certain extent impinge on their interests and those of the animals and birds that they seek to protect.

Further there are species in the Uk struggling for survival and requiring protection from predation - as practiced by conservation bodies.

Regards
Mac

I promised myself i wouldnt get involved in this but very breifly i would say that i agree entirely with Mac - I'd also note that the scottish executive has already voted against the ban so the chances of them reversing their position are neglible.

this argument has already been done to death here Petition - Snaring in Scotland and that thread got very nasty and culminated in people on both sides being banned - not to mention one person recieving death threats by email - so lets all try to debate rather than argue and not to go there again

[dickybird]

signed----but why just scotland??!!


dickybird

[squeek]

hi db,thanks for signing.

well if im right from memory, they are illegal elsewhere.
i think although they have stopped them,still people use them in the rest of the country. i may be wrong i dont know.

what i do know is that snaring an animal must be the most cruel of death's
unless someone is around at that time to shoot the animal which could even be a family pet, depending on where the snare is around the body, if around the stomach it will disembowel, if around the neck will slowly strangle it, b/c each movement the animal makes the noose will tighten abit more, and each time the animal will lose conscience until one move too many and it will eventually die
(not a nice death) could take a while.