Is Victoria loosing the dog & fox bounty?

[Oldbloke]

http://www.depi.vic.gov.au/agriculture- ... the-bounty
Looks like the dog bounty ends in June & fox October

[KWhorenet]

And if so, do they think it will save money over all considering they will probably contract out the baiting and get arse raped royally for the price of the job?

Allot of people spend up on gear, ammo, fuel etc etc paying tax through the nose i.e. state gov revenue with the little dangle of a bounty on offer for doing so.

My guess is it will be a negative saving for them. Good old bean counters at their finest I suspect.

[Oldbloke]

Personaly not an issue for me but must be a negative for farmers and native animals.

[VICHunter]

For fox bounty was over when it was $5. Who could be bothered for that.

I know it's doubled to $10 now so maybe if people had an area teeming with them.

The dog fee is very attractive. Probably upsetting for the accountants though.

[Seconds]

They could accomplish a lot more just giving hunters easier access to culling ferals IMO.

No need for incentives and payments, just get rid of all the red tape bulls**t.

VIC has it pretty good but the rest of the states...

[anthillinside]

They could accomplish a lot more just giving hunters easier access to culling ferals IMO.

No need for incentives and payments, just get rid of all the red tape bulls**t.

VIC has it pretty good but the rest of the states...

I wonder if a few sheep farmers could get some media coverage by getting 60 Minutes or the like to see what a pack of feral (or not so feral) dogs can do a flock.
Even if the farmer isn't pro hunting it would show some of the trials farmers face, and perhaps give a dose of reality to city dwellers and shake off a few green votes.

[Oldbloke]

We can blame the animal libbers for this. There used to be fairly good money in fox skins until the animal libbers killed the industry with the all the adverts with blood every where trailing behind white furs.. I wonder if they understand they have now killed millions of native animal through their dumb actions.

[Norton]

I wonder if a few sheep farmers could get some media coverage by getting 60 Minutes or the like to see what a pack of feral (or not so feral) dogs can do a flock.
Even if the farmer isn't pro hunting it would show some of the trials farmers face, and perhaps give a dose of reality to city dwellers and shake off a few green votes.

Sadly I think the media knows full well they can get more viewers with any hunting/gun rhetoric than anything that vaguely resembles a pro shooting 'agenda'

[inventurkey]

I can't decide if the bounty is a worthwhile idea or not.

On one hand they can't - and shouldn't - be expected to pay a fortune for a fox.

On the other no one is going to get motivated to go out and do it for $5.

So what's the point

[Oldbloke]

Its $10 for a fox. But I dont bother anyway. Where I live only 4 or 5 collections during office hours a year. So would have to take a day off work/sicky. As I only get out on the odd occassion & dont spot light, so only shoot a few. They need to collect after hrs to make it work.

[inventurkey]

Still.... $5, $10, whichever... Gotta have a pretty solid supply of foxes going if it's going to beat a day job for peoples motivations.

I dunno, I don't have the solution so I shouldn't complain.