A report by Ranger P. W. Wilson on dispatching trapped opossums, received by the Wellington Acclimatisation Society, stated that the present method was to bleed the animal by cutting the throat. There was nothing inhuman in this. By bleeding, a clean pelt was secured. What was most objectionable and cruel was to bludgeon the opossum without bleeding. He had heard of instances where the oDossum was bludgeoned until apparently dead and found to be alive hours afterwards . Only a few inexperienced trappers would do this. With reference to a suggestion by the Society for the Prevention of Crueltv to Animals regarding the use of pea rifles to dispatch trapped ooossums. it was stated that it was not desirable that pea rifles should be permitted in the forest by trapners, as this would result in the shooting of pigeons and other native birds.
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Press, Volume LXX, Issue 21240, 11 August 1934, Page 16
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