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Otter Petition

"Petition to prevent an ecological disaster to wildlife caused by the Otter (lutra lutra)."

Is that it? It doesn't say anything so I can't see it getting a great deal of support.
 
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Petition to prevent an ecological disaster to wildlife caused by the Otter (lutra lutra).


I don't think so. Its far too non specific.


Edit, beaten to it by a few seconds.
 
We don't even know who the author is. Possibly just a 'testing the wind' thing to gauge the strength of feelings on the subject, with no intent to actually do anything, no matter what the result. Still........

Cheers, Dave.
 
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A creature big as an otter with an air rifle is not a good thing.at best a head shot is needed to be well placed.even the tree rat can not be killed outright with a body shot. It needs to be humane whatever it is.after all we are supposed to be smarter than them.
Albert
 
Sorry, debating the most humane calibre is a red herring. I somehow doubt that many folks would actually have the necessary permission to take any type of firearm on the banks with them. Quite apart from the criminal offence of killing an otter, you'd also be committing armed trespass for just taking a rifle somewhere you don't have the authority to do so.

I can only suggest that those posting that this may be the way to go are a little more circumspect in what they say on a forum. If they actually are FAC holders, I'd be concerned that plenty of FEOs are anglers as well as shooters, and you are posting under your real names. The suggestion of an illegal act with a firearm is easily enough to justify the removal of an FAC.
 
I will clear my yardarm on this matter.i have shot hundreds of vermin with an air rifle.i would be under extreme pressure to do that to an otter.also we all know you cannot walk about ad lib with a firearm.
Albert
 
This thread is going nowhere fast ! Please be very careful of what you post on a forum viewable to all ! This is not directed at anyone in particular, just a gentle reminder !
 
When I was a kid I could walk through the village any time carrying an uncovered broken air rifle. Try that today and you would have thirty armed response officers aiming everything they carry at you before you got to the end of the street.
Those really were more innocent times.
 
I recall an occasion when a couple of friends and I were walking slowly up a footpath which was sheltered by trees on both sides. It ran away at right angles from a quiet road, between two farm fields, ending in an area of mixed woodland and scrub, a wild area surrounded by more farmland. The path was fairly well hidden from the houses on the opposite side of the road, and meeting another person there was a rare thing indeed. All three of us were carrying air rifles, which we had uncovered shortly after we entered the path. When we were about a hundred yards up the path, we heard a squeal of tires as a car came to an emergency stop, doors flew open and four plain clothed policemen raced up the path towards us. I have no idea whether they were armed or not, nor why they had appeared so suddenly. They didn't arrest us or confiscate our guns, but we were made to discharge them into the ground and present them to the officers for inspection, then re-bag them, names and addresses were taken....and chastened, we were sent off home. And that was close on fifty years ago. Back then we had never heard of the towns of Dunblane or Hungerford, let alone what would occur there in years to come, so were were puzzled by the actions of the police.

They most certainly were more innocent times, and that occasion was the first time anything like that had ever happened to us. However, perhaps that was evidence that even back then, times were changing, heading towards the situation we have now. I know I will now be accused of viewing the past through rose tinted glasses....but I really do look back to my early years and yearn for that lost innocence, that slower time....even if the cracks had started to appear.

Cheers, Dave.
 
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