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[Kieran <holycow@frontiernet.net>]

Reading all this on one of my rare chances to revisit Nafexland, I was 
thinking that none of you have free range chickens.  The live traps we 
use tend to catch more chickens than squirrels.  Not that that's a real 
problem, sometimes it gets one I want for the pot anyway.  We take the 
trapped squirrels out to the neighbor's field and open the cage, so far 
only one has made it to the trees before our dog gets it. Not fun for 
the squirrel, but the dog loves it.
    I had thought the Kania traps were worth remembering in case I ever 
started getting real crops from my trees, but the lethal effect probably 
wouldn't be so good for the chicken population. Since they don't work 
properly as sold on red squirrels, I wonder if any of you could tell me 
if they'd be safe for chickens...............  OHH!!!  I just looked at 
some websites! Oh, they look GREAT!  Up the tree, yes, I could put one 
on the highway tree they use lately.
    I'd better get one going in the spring, before any fruit can 
ripen.  Assuming that not everything gets wiped out by a late freeze.  
This weather.....      Donna






On 11/27/2013 7:25 PM, Harold F. Turnbull wrote:
> .........the Kania traps don't fool around with questions of relocation -
> they despatch their subjects instantly to their just rewards.  No stress 
> induced by forcible
> confinement.  No need to establish a network of friends in a new 
> neighbourhood.  No
> concerns about introducing contagion into a vulnerable population, or pissing 
> off the
> neighbours, or bringing down the might of the law upon one's head.............
>
> Thank you.  There is, apparently, some humor in squirrelland!!!
>
> HFT