bigpete wrote:Considering its illegal to kill snakes.....
deye243 wrote:bigpete wrote:Considering its illegal to kill snakes.....
Not if you believe they are a danger to human life they are not
That and if their anywhere near a $3,000 working dog wriggle stick gets broken
Oldbloke wrote:deye243 wrote:bigpete wrote:Considering its illegal to kill snakes.....
Not if you believe they are a danger to human life they are not
That and if their anywhere near a $3,000 working dog wriggle stick gets broken
Yep but I just catch them with a length of cord and some conduit. Then relocate using a rubbish bin.
deye243 wrote:bigpete wrote:Considering its illegal to kill snakes.....
Not if you believe they are a danger to human life they are not
bigpete wrote:Considering its illegal to kill snakes.....
deye243 wrote:Oldbloke wrote:deye243 wrote:bigpete wrote:Considering its illegal to kill snakes.....
Not if you believe they are a danger to human life they are not
That and if their anywhere near a $3,000 working dog wriggle stick gets broken
Yep but I just catch them with a length of cord and some conduit. Then relocate using a rubbish bin.
Tell me more ...... how to use the cord and the pipe
Lazarus wrote:Funny thing, on the road, in the paddock, in the scrub they're protected and can go their way, in the yard where my dogs lived, they had a strange tendency to explode.
Fionn wrote:deye243 wrote:bigpete wrote:Considering its illegal to kill snakes.....
Not if you believe they are a danger to human life they are not
Its illegal without a permit under any circumstances (in Victoria at least).
bladeracer wrote:
Yep but I just catch them with a length of cord and some conduit. Then relocate using a rubbish bin.
Fionn wrote:deye243 wrote:bigpete wrote:Considering its illegal to kill snakes.....
Not if you believe they are a danger to human life they are not
Its illegal without a permit under any circumstances (in Victoria at least).
womble wrote:Lazarus wrote:Funny thing, on the road, in the paddock, in the scrub they're protected and can go their way, in the yard where my dogs lived, they had a strange tendency to explode.
I camp with dogs and I’ve noticed them explode on occasion. Weirdest thing, just this really loud bang.
bigpete wrote:I reckon there's a whole lot of sooks in this thread. And the whole killing them if human life is threatened thing,to make it legal requires a bunch of paperwork from what I've heard.
womble wrote:I wouldn’t shoot one just because.
I actually like snakes. So long as they don’t start any s**t.
womble wrote:bigpete wrote:I reckon there's a whole lot of sooks in this thread. And the whole killing them if human life is threatened thing,to make it legal requires a bunch of paperwork from what I've heard.
Ever been chased by a taipan.
Western QLD many moons ago. Took my dogs to water and it followed us back up the track. And it was fast. And it was big. And it was pissed off.
Anecdotally on that same trip a funnel web tried to pick a fight with me in a bush dunny. I s**t you not. I walked in there and he reared up on his back legs and started swinging. I would have shot him too but it wasn’t my dunny.
But that said, I’ve stepped on tigers and browns in Victoria and they haven’t complained.
I wouldn’t shoot one just because.
I actually like snakes. So long as they don’t start any s**t.
Oldbloke wrote:There is a short bit of dowel glued in the end of the conduit to stop the knot falling through and better hold the snake without harming the smaller ones.
Personally I've never killed a snake. But caught and released a few now.
I guess that's illegal too.
Do I need a license for that weapon too?
Oldbloke wrote:There is a short bit of dowel glued in the end of the conduit to stop the knot falling through and better hold the snake without harming the smaller ones.
Personally I've never killed a snake. But caught and released a few now.
I guess that's illegal too.
Do I need a license for that weapon too?
bladeracer wrote:Oldbloke wrote:There is a short bit of dowel glued in the end of the conduit to stop the knot falling through and better hold the snake without harming the smaller ones.
Personally I've never killed a snake. But caught and released a few now.
I guess that's illegal too.
Do I need a license for that weapon too?
You probably do need some sort of permit to interfere with native wildlife, it's illegal to even take a dead snake off a road.
Oldbloke wrote:bladeracer wrote:You probably do need some sort of permit to interfere with native wildlife, it's illegal to even take a dead snake off a road.
Fionn, would you pls stop telling me what I'm doing is illegal.
Guilty again, moved a nice tiger of the road 3 or 4 weeks ago. Nice looking specimen too.
Oldbloke wrote:There is a short bit of dowel glued in the end of the conduit to stop the knot falling through and better hold the snake without harming the smaller ones.
Personally I've never killed a snake. But caught and released a few now.
I guess that's illegal too.
Do I need a license for that weapon too?
Oldbloke wrote:Fionn, would you pls stop telling me what I'm doing is illegal.
bladeracer wrote:
That was me actually
I know about the wildlife side of it as there was an artist that for years had been collecting specimens of roadkill and creating sculpture and such out of them. When he learned what he was doing was illegal he held a large exhibition before, I think, destroying everything. Really stupid law that makes no sense to me. A mate and I drove from Perth to Melbourne in '92 to race at Broadford and found a pair of wedgetail eagles on the Nullabor that had been cleaned up by a road train. One was a mess but the other was mostly intact. My mate thought they might make a nice mount so we took them onboard and went to a taxidermist when we got to Perth. Even back then it was explained to us that we really needed permits to have possession of them.
Fionn wrote:bladeracer wrote:
That was me actually
I know about the wildlife side of it as there was an artist that for years had been collecting specimens of roadkill and creating sculpture and such out of them. When he learned what he was doing was illegal he held a large exhibition before, I think, destroying everything. Really stupid law that makes no sense to me. A mate and I drove from Perth to Melbourne in '92 to race at Broadford and found a pair of wedgetail eagles on the Nullabor that had been cleaned up by a road train. One was a mess but the other was mostly intact. My mate thought they might make a nice mount so we took them onboard and went to a taxidermist when we got to Perth. Even back then it was explained to us that we really needed permits to have possession of them.
The law is there for a twofold reason, it stops people killing animals to use them as products or in your friends case, "Art". Acknowledge that you say they use roadkill, but what happens if there isn't enough roadkill for the fickle art market demands.
The second one is that its often hard to catch people actually killing the animals, so this law enables prosecution of those found in possession of animals.
As an example look at the morons who post here in public about illegally killing native animals and claim they just explode.
Your artist friend could have just gotten a permit instead of destroying the art, although I am not sure that was a bad thing in any case.
Fionn wrote:The law is there for a twofold reason, it stops people killing animals to use them as products or in your friends case, "Art". Acknowledge that you say they use roadkill, but what happens if there isn't enough roadkill for the fickle art market demands.
The second one is that its often hard to catch people actually killing the animals, so this law enables prosecution of those found in possession of animals.
As an example look at the morons who post here in public about illegally killing native animals and claim they just explode.
Your artist friend could have just gotten a permit instead of destroying the art, although I am not sure that was a bad thing in any case.