OPOSSUM KILLING
USE OF HUMANE METHODS A report by Ranger P. W. Willson on dispatching trapped opossums, received by the Wellington Acclimatisation Society at its last meeting, stated that the present method was to bleed the animal by cutting the throat. Thero was nothing inhuman in this. By blooding a clean pelt was secured. What was most objectionable and cruel was to bludgeon the opossum without bleeding. Ho had heard of instances where the opossum was bludgeoned ifntil apparently dead, and found to bo alive hours afterwards. Only a few inexperienced trappers would do this. With reference to a suggestion regarding the use of pea-rifles to dispatch trapped opossums, it was stated that it was not desirable that pea-rifles should bo permitted to be taken into the forest by trappers, as this would result in tho shooting of pigeons and other native birds.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21876, 11 August 1934, Page 12
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