Why barbaric snares should be outlawed
MUCH-LOVED pets, endangered species, protected animals like badgers and otters, and even sheep have all been found dead or injured in snares. Vets regularly see these unintended victims in their surgeries, so it's no surprise that surveys show they're overwhelmingly opposed to the use of these indiscriminate killing and maiming devices.
Most snares are not even set for a good reason. They are designed to catch predators of game birds, so when a shooting party turns up there are plenty of live targets to aim at.
The horrors associated with the use of snares are catalogued in a new report recently published by the League Against Cruel Sports, entitled War on Wildlife.
Copies have been sent to MPs and, as a result, a new Early Day Motion has cross-party support and calls upon the Government to outlaw the manufacture, sale and use of these cruel and barbaric nooses.
I urge Echo readers to write to their MPs asking them to support EDM 1473.
Ivor Annetts
League Against Cruel Sports Tiverton
(by email)
Comments
by A M Mitchell, Devon
Monday, June 01 2009, 11:43AM
“I see the League Against Cruel Sports is trying to whip iup anager about legal predator control methods such as snaring (letter, May 29) but remember, this is the same outfit that used similar proganda to foist the discredited Hunting Act on Parliament .
Government invesigtations into snaring have cleared it as a humane and responsible form of essential pest control. Modern snares of the type used by professional gamekpeers are restraining devices, with a "stop" preventing total closure of the noose. They are, in fact, idential to the snares used in Scotland some years ago by researchers working for the League Against Cruel Sports to catch a number of foxes so they could be released, unharmed, with radio collars.
A Mitchell
Spokesman
National Gamekeepers Organisation”