Excellent use for possums !!

I see on the news tonight there is a push from a south island company to produce more fur fashion garments namely the good old possum !!!
I hope it takes off, would be great to see more possums caught and put to good use and get rid of the 1080 which in my opinion is out dated
and a disgrace in a country that is finally starting to take note of potential pollutants spread on the land and indirectly into the water ways.
No doubt the companies who stand to benefit from the use of 1080 will come up with ways to justify the continuing millions spent by the tax payer
won the control of the ingrained furry little pest.
What say you??

I say dead right on all counts[emoji362]

It has been an obvious way to go for years.

Certainly has been, trouble is the animal activist put a stop to it all many years ago, but didn't realise that possums are killed and wasted here unlike in other countries.
any thing to stop the spread of toxic waste in our forests is good in my books.

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Certainly has been, trouble is the animal activist put a stop to it all many years ago, but didn't realise that possums are killed and wasted here unlike in other countries.
any thing to stop the spread of toxic waste in our forests is good in my books.

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With you on that TJM.

My two cents- get a hole heap of doll bludgers and give them each a bag of possum traps. Two birds with one stone

Can we catch them and send them across the ditch to oz they are in short supply there

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My two cents- get a hole heap of doll bludgers and give them each a bag of possum traps. Two birds with one stone

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Which they would promptly sell on Trade Me and go back to bludgeoning dolls.

Yeah I've skinned possums for a living. Good money but hard work there's a lot to it. I don't think many of the people your talking about could handle it

Fair enough mate. Dunno about you guys but nothing gets more on my nerve than 19% of my hard earned money going to someone that has no intention of getting a job and is using the doll as a lifestyle rather than a lifeline. They need a hurry up by the govt to get off there arses and start paying there way rather than thinking the world owes them something. Noticed a dispute on the news the other night about doll bludging pricks complaining about having to pay tax on there free money. What a joke Dont get me wrong i hold nothing against people that are using the doll to get back on the horse but i feel this is a absolute pisstake in our society

Crikey

Possummatti there are users and a users in all walks of life. It is not going to change in my lifetime.

They have had a cull out of those abusing the system recently.:thumbup:

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Can we catch them and send them across the ditch to oz they are in short supply there

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Possums or dole bludgers?

Im thinking both.

Why can't they allow certain people to shoot possums etc on DOC land...........haha, silly me, I already know the answer.

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Originally Posted by TJM

I see on the news tonight there is a push from a south island company to produce more fur fashion garments namely the good old possum !!!
I hope it takes off, would be great to see more possums caught and put to good use and get rid of the 1080 which in my opinion is out dated
and a disgrace in a country that is finally starting to take note of potential pollutants spread on the land and indirectly into the water ways.
No doubt the companies who stand to benefit from the use of 1080 will come up with ways to justify the continuing millions spent by the tax payer
won the control of the ingrained furry little pest.
What say you??

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I never seen the news item, so tell me what are they promoting, fur or skin? The skin prices have taken a tumble lately and fur is not hitting any magic numbers.

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Possummatti there are users and a users in all walks of life. It is not going to change in my lifetime.

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Well that's giving it SFA time to change:thumbsup:

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I never seen the news item, so tell me what are they promoting, fur or skin? The skin prices have taken a tumble lately and fur is not hitting any magic numbers.

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Fore skins Spook! Never work the greenies will think it cruel to kill something!

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Fore skins Spook! Never work the greenies will think it cruel to kill something!

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How many do you need for a kilo

Fore!

Now are you coming to the Sika show? Happys happy to bring you down?

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Now are you coming to the Sika show? Happys happy to bring you down?

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Nah

FFS you gotta get out man!

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FFS you gotta get out man!

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Why?...I am happy here under my rock.

We'd look after you!

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We'd look after you!

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Yeah, right

Let us know if you change your mind!:thumbsup:

Be interesting to know the total cost of trying to eradicate possums over the years, how much has been spent on 1080 and if they will ever win ??
My guess is it would blow us away, they will never get rid of them at least not by poisoning, and in the end and unfortunately trying to save the species the possums effect although sad is fruitless in the end.

The real futures for fur are based on the catwalks of haute couture in Europe...

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Be interesting to know the total cost of trying to eradicate possums over the years, how much has been spent on 1080 and if they will ever win ??
My guess is it would blow us away, they will never get rid of them at least not by poisoning, and in the end and unfortunately trying to save the species the possums effect although sad is fruitless in the end.

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The cost to date would be a mind blowing figure and if they ever came close to winning the eradication of the possum, then some bunch of clowns (greenies) would cry for their protection and once again they would be a protected species.