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Came across a bird trap

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a customer of mine for 6 years lived out in the country and iv cleaned for them with no problems inside and out almost every clean

but this year they moved into the edge of town into a brand new home . him and her are good payers and my workers like them as did i .

Until the last clean.

Walking around the back of the new house in their manicured garden near to a boundary fence i came across an old magpie trap . i stopped in my tracks when i saw it ,lordey me ,a bird trap!

in my opinion its very cruel to trap any birds [but these traps are perfectly legal]

i knew instantly what it was [larson trap]because yrs ago i knew a gamekeeper who had one of these set near where i lived and i used to quietly release anything caught in it [including cats],so he didnt get to kill much when i was around!

Now i know its legal for my customer to have it,it wasnt set when i saw it ,but what would YOU do?

im thinking of dropping them off the round on moral grounds. its a fair bit of money they spend however

 
Are you sure it was put there by them or left by the last owners?
its his . he saw me looking at it and said to me "thats a magpie trap" in a slightly evil tone . i wasnt sure how to react so i acted as if nonplussed and carried on walking so as not to alarm him.

 
It's probably set so he can dispatch cats crapping in his garden /emoticons/biggrin.png

 
Bring a country boy............see loads of these. The idea is to swap magpies with someone else, magpies are territorial and when an 'alien' magpie is making noise in cage, the local birds will come and attack it, getting trapped in the cage in the process. Clever stuff.

You townies with your hash tags and your stabbings will never understand our simple inbred country ways.

 
I cant see the point of trapping birds myself as my cats seem to kill most of them /emoticons/biggrin.png

 
Hash tags and stabbings:rofl:

I is from the hood innit

But I live the country style life..shooting, fishing, rabbiting etc

 
Mind you I bring the cats in at night so they don't get killed by foxes or end up in someone's curry /emoticons/biggrin.png

 
I tried Hammersmith in the 90's. The pavements were too wide and I got black bogeys?

Back on topic, magpies, jackdaws, rooks etc will eat eggs and small birds. They'd have a good go at smurf's cat too, if they thought they were on to a winner. So yeh, pest control is morally okay.

You townies put bumps in the pavements to deter the homeless from sleeping there! What's all that about!?

 
I am from the Hammersmith area originally. .born in st marys hospital paddington

Ever tried magpie or rook breasts spc..taste nice

 
couple yrs ago while out at work i heard a terrible racket up by the gutters. a starling was fending off a Magpie that was trying to get its babies in a nest under the tiles . i swiftly ran over to my van ,got my longest pole and swatted the magpie away .

nontheless i wouldnt have trapped it

 
Justice wfp style! On the whole, I think if you kill an animal you should try and eat it. Exactly not like fix hunting. But if course vermin do need to be dealt with efficiently.

Dave, not tried rooks breast, I imagine there's bugger all meat there, ang gamey! Ate a pigeon breast once. Shot it with an air gun, we were hungry, to find a ring on its leg. Still imagine some Yorkshireman staring out if the window every evening, waiting for his winner to come home........

 
My uncle is a game warden in the new forest

We have even eaten squirrel as illegal to release them once trapped

Buggers ring barking all the trees

just chop legs off and cook em

 
Elvis ate squirrel apparently, pub myth maybe, what's it like? We call them tree rats round here. There's LOADS this year, and hedgehogs too, mild winter last year I guess, so munch away.

 
Nice over a fire

Also love rabbit..boil for a little while then batter them and do it fried chicken style..kentucky fried rabbit..mmm

Still got some muntjac deer left in chest freezer in the shed

 
normal hunting iv no problem with , iv killed a few mixie rabbits , rats over the years and an adder snake that was hanging about near my back door .

its just the fact this sinister guy has a female magpie kept alive somewhere for years thats used as the bait in his trap to catch the males .

its my guess that when he lived out in the country this was all hidden but now hes living in suburbia ,its out in the open ,on view

 
I beleive in hunting for food..meat doesn't come in plastic wrappers (still can't convince the wife)

But killing just because we decide an animal is a pest is wrong..if I can't eat it I will leave it be

 
wow suddenly entered the nature watch forum...me...eat ...anything as long as its cooked...yeh...if hungry..i would kill to eat..but kill for killings sake....hmmmmm

mind you killed a fair few flies this week ...but not supa fly....hes the one i can t get...he keeps flying up laughing at me and buzzing off....i will get him one day..../emoticons/biggrin.png

 
Traps will still be there if you quit the job , stay there and release any you see that's what I'd do

 
I clean at a posh country house where they lay magpie traps. They dont keep them in the trap.....they just shoot them!. Magpies are not popular for some reason. I dont agree with killing animals for no reason and dont like to see this practice with magpies, but it seems pointless to ditch the customer because of this. Ditch them or not, they will continue with their cruel ways.

 
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