I made the esky as a humane way to kill them. Prior to that, Dirty would don a pair of welding gloves, pull them out of the trap and cut their throats.luvdids wrote:Charming. What a beautiful little story.Skids wrote:We used to trap them and kill them when I worked at Argyle, the site I work at now and the one prior, the enviros have the pleasure.
We rigged up this big esky to a CO2 bottle and used that.
I tell you what, some of these beasts are massive!
My old mate dirty, he had a fishing rod with a big hook and used to catch 'em at the tip that way. A baseball bat was his weapon of choice.
Wouldn't expect anything less.
I couldn't believe it!
My esky design won me a $100 Bunnings voucher.
They are culled on most mine-sites, seeing one with a baby bungarra in its mouth is enough for me.
Why aren't they at least licensed as dogs have to be?
I have to pay $50/year for Pete as she's still intact, I think it drops to $10/year if she is sterilized.
There definitely needs to be some control in place and continued culling of them in the outback.