Thread: Predator Free

Originally Posted by Tentman

Nice. I think the future of hunting is going to be based on or at least closely linked with conservation partnerships. . .

100% right if for nothing else, the fact that Govt sends a lot of funds the way of Conservation groups.

Big Boi came for the nut butter!

Seeing a huge upsurge of road kill possums recently when they were absent a year ago.

Originally Posted by TeRei

Seeing a huge upsurge of road kill possums recently when they were absent a year ago.

oh real? wonder what's causing that?

Originally Posted by TeRei

Seeing a huge upsurge of road kill possums recently when they were absent a year ago.

Seems to be the year for it. Shot 11 this year. In the previous 10 years I have lived here, I've shot 4. We are surrounded largely by open farmland, so not entirely sure where they are coming in from.
The property is only 2 acres, so I'm not covering a large area to get them either.

My parents just out of Greytown have had a huge increase in trapped possums this year too, and up in Karori I've had a massive increase in trapped mice and rats this year

oh real? wonder what's causing that?

Cars would be my best guess ;-)

Theres vast numbers of possums in urban areas. Lots of nesting places and endless food . You think its your cat that eats the cat bikkies at your back door at night ?

Originally Posted by Scouser

Just joined Auckland central parks animal pest control project, targeting possums and rats with none poisonous baits (peanut butter for rats, cinnamon dusted apples for possums)

Get my trap line next month in the Waitarua wetland....let's go

Well, 5 months on and over 30 rats and 1 mouse despatched, average 2 to 3 a week in 18 traps....

Traps are in a dog proof plastic box.....