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Why can't you shoot them where you trap them? There is no law to stop you doing so, providing you have the permission of the landowner (which you need to trap them anyway).

 

Be very careful transporting live foxes. Whilst they are in your care they are classified as 'livestock' and you have to have a ticket to transport livestock. Just imagine being stopped with a live fox on board :no:

 

Apart from anything else, I personally think it's not very humane to move them about. Get them humanely dispatched ASAP. :thumbs:

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"In England & Wales using a firearm near a highway is not prohibited but it is an offence without lawful authority or reasonable excuse to discharge any firearm within fifty feet of the centre of a highway/carriageway IF in consequence a user of the carriageway is injured, interrupted or endangered" - so basically you can but your in trouble if something goes wrong.... Because that's not the case with everything in life...

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Better removing them from a back garden in a hessian bag and doing the deed where there are less prying eyes ?

 

So, you're driving along with a live fox in a hessian bag in the back of the motor, and some dick drives into you......... how do you explain to the old bill what you are doing with a live animal in the car?

 

No.

 

By far the best, and most humane solution is to humanely dispatch it where you catch it. Providing you have lawful authority to 'take' the fox in the first place (which you need to trap it anyway) there is no law preventing you from doing the right thing. A .410 shotgun would be my tool of choice :yes:

 

Unless you've been on the training course and got the certificate you are not legally allowed to transport livestock. That's before you get into the welfare issues around bagging a fox and chucking it in the back of a motor....... how, by the way, are you going to lawfully and humanely dispatch a fox that's been bagged?

 

Think about it guys.........

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