Thread: Rodent baits and their effect on native fauna

A Dingo is a feral animal!

Originally Posted by Saitch

A Dingo is a feral animal!

Yep, and there are shooters paid to control population.

Cane toads, myna birds, fallow deer, rabbits and foxes are controlled? There are more feral pigs in this country than there are people. There are maybe 3 million feral goats. Water buffalo are also very numerous and are also an invasive species. I reckon there's a fair way to go before we can say we've got feral animals controlled.

Imagine if there weren’t shooters though

Originally Posted by Tombie

Yep, and there are shooters paid to control population.

.........but they're also 'Protected', to a certain extent!

My vet relative says stocks of vitamin K are exhausted because large amounts have been used to treat dogs and other animals which have become ill after eating poisoned mice during the plague.
Huge doses of vitamin K are the treatment - it can cost $1000 to treat a dog, which could die anyway. So keep your pets away from dead mice.

Originally Posted by Tombie

Feral animals are controlled quite well by Sporting shooters/hunters and an important part of maintaining a balance of sorts.

Quite true but there are some outstanding anomolies in this area. In Victoria recreational hunters are allowed in some parts of National Parks to hunt deer and they do a good job....BUT.... when in these Parks hunting deer if they shoot any other wild species aka dogs, pigs, cats, foxes, goats, rabbits etc then they have breached regulations and in prosecution danger of losing their Game License, Firearm License and have all their firearms at home plus the one they used to shoot the vermin species seized and destroyed by the courts.

Originally Posted by Saitch

.........but they're also 'Protected', to a certain extent!

Once an invasive species becomes naturalised it can be detrimental even further if that species is then removed.