Just read in yesterdays' local paper, that a farmer has been fined $400.00 for skinning and butchering dead Roo's he had dragged off the road, to feed to his dogs.
Stock squad officers saw the meat in his ute, [parked outside the Great Western Hotel] and pounced.
So be aware, that free dog-food could cost you. Personally, I think it's ridiculous. Why waste good meat if it's only going to rot at the side of the road anyway?
Cheers,
Sheba.
-- Edited by Sheba on Saturday 11th of January 2014 09:03:58 PM
D and D said
11:34 PM Jan 11, 2014
I'm with you Sheba, bloody ridiculous, if someone can find a use for the huge volume of road kill on our highways and byways then good on them - they should be congratulated not punished.
Sheba said
12:10 AM Jan 12, 2014
That's what I reckon. I've done it myself occasionally, years ago. [ Hope this doesn't get me a fine too.]
Cheers,
Sheba.
dorian said
06:32 AM Jan 12, 2014
Bureaucratic stupidity aside, how safe is road kill, unless you've killed it yourself?
-- Edited by dorian on Sunday 12th of January 2014 06:33:40 AM
hako said
11:36 AM Jan 12, 2014
I reckon it'd be pretty tender especially after being hit with a bullbar then rolled a hundred metres under a truck.....minced meat?
Europeans enjoy 'hung' meat that's up to a week old.
Delta18 said
12:57 PM Jan 12, 2014
To add to that stupidity, the same Toowoomba paper that had that report also reported that due to massive over population of roos, farmers could get a permit to shoot up to 1000 roos per property!
Bureaucratic stupidity is right. The guy's doing everyone a favor. What on earth would a dead animal on the side of the road be worth to a government agency? I can't believe I'm reading this.
Cloak said
05:42 PM Jan 12, 2014
On a similar topic we got a call from daughter inlaw a few hours ago asking if we could come over to the farm and dispatch a lamb that a dog had got into.
When we asked why us? we're old and ignorant of such matters she said that they don't have a permit to kill the animals themselves. Seems they must use a vet or
licensed butcher. She figured we were so old we would get away with it.
They will be dispatching the dog however as this is lamb number 5.
I would have thought you could mercy kill an animal?
Happywanderer said
08:10 PM Jan 12, 2014
Kill 2 birds with 1 stone Cloak, oops I mean the lamb as well as the dog.
03_troopy said
06:23 PM Jan 13, 2014
Lambs taste better than dogs.
navynurse said
12:08 PM Jan 14, 2014
Oh I don't know dog's not bad, depends how it's cooked
Allan
Delta18 said
12:32 PM Jan 14, 2014
navynurse wrote:
Oh I don't know dog's not bad, depends how it's cooked
Just read in yesterdays' local paper, that a farmer has been fined $400.00 for skinning and butchering dead Roo's he had dragged off the road, to feed to his dogs.
Stock squad officers saw the meat in his ute, [parked outside the Great Western Hotel] and pounced.
So be aware, that free dog-food could cost you. Personally, I think it's ridiculous. Why waste good meat if it's only going to rot at the side of the road anyway?
Cheers,
Sheba.
-- Edited by Sheba on Saturday 11th of January 2014 09:03:58 PM
That's what I reckon. I've done it myself occasionally, years ago. [ Hope this doesn't get me a fine too.]
Cheers,
Sheba.
Bureaucratic stupidity aside, how safe is road kill, unless you've killed it yourself?
-- Edited by dorian on Sunday 12th of January 2014 06:33:40 AM
Europeans enjoy 'hung' meat that's up to a week old.
To add to that stupidity, the same Toowoomba paper that had that report also reported that due to massive over population of roos, farmers could get a permit to shoot up to 1000 roos per property!
http://www.thechronicle.com.au/news/a-long-time-farmer-was-fined-yesterday-for-removin/2135649/
http://www.thechronicle.com.au/news/booming-numbers-kangaroo-culling-permits-fast-trac/2133991/
When we asked why us? we're old and ignorant of such matters she said that they don't have a permit to kill the animals themselves. Seems they must use a vet or
licensed butcher. She figured we were so old we would get away with it.
They will be dispatching the dog however as this is lamb number 5.
I would have thought you could mercy kill an animal?
Allan
Boiled & stuck in a bun....hot dogs