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Sheba


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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?  

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Sheba.



-- Edited by Sheba on Saturday 11th of January 2014 09:03:58 PM

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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.

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That's what I reckon.  I've done it myself occasionally, years ago.  [ Hope this doesn't get me a fine too.] biggrinbiggrinbiggrin

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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

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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.

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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/

 



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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.

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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?

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Kill 2 birds with 1 stone Cloak, oops I mean the lamb as well as the dog.

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Lambs taste better than dogs.

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Oh I don't know dog's not bad, depends how it's cooked

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navynurse wrote:

Oh I don't know dog's not bad, depends how it's cooked

Allan

 Boiled & stuck in a bun....hot dogs



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