I know this would vary from locale to locale, but, presumably, there are some animals that do not require a permit to kill (mice in mouse traps, for example). How does this work? Is there a list of “always OK to kill” species?
Edit: Thank you everybody for the replies!
Seems like a fair fight. I might have a 20,000% weight advantage, but he has some wicked claws!
Difference between countries, but here it is legal as long as all of the following criteria are met: a) the animal in question isn’t endangered or specifically protected, b) if domesticated, that you have destruction rights for the animal (generally the case for pets), and c) it is killed in a “humane way” which is a rather long list of don’ts.
There was a woman in my town charged for animal abuse by trapping mice in a “wrong” way that didn’t properly minimise suffering.
That sounds like when my wife set out some no-kill mice traps, but then never inspected them.
During the middle of summer.
When it hit 115 F.
She agreed that kill traps would be more humane going forward.
So how was the mouse organ?
Disgusting :p
Where is “here”?
Norway, but I believe we have basically same laws as rest of Europe even if enforcement varies.
Depends where you live. Wild animals, we called local animal control about a opossum we’d caught in a cat trap (trying to catch a local stray cat) wanting to know what they wanted us to do with it. and they let us know about the felony we were about to admit to committing and did we want to shut the fuck up. Apparently we needed a license to trap wild animals. So telling your local animal control after the fact isn’t in your best interests, but they could provide guidance before the fact. If you’re in Washington State, you leave those (just put on the local endangered list) western gray squirrels the fuck alone.
Holy cow. I live in Oregon and there are at least 50 western gray squirrels just around my house. There are tons along the river by our house too. I didn’t know they are endangered in Washington. How weird, considering we’re neighboring states (although there is a huge river between us).
OMG!!!, A FUCKIN YEET CANNON ACROSS THE RIVER!
be the problem you want to solve
In Australia there are different species which are endangered or plentiful.
I think their habitats got hit hard by the fires this year. Not entirely sure. I’m not a squirrelologist
I’m pretty sure it’s the Eastern grey’s around the house. Not endangered in the slightest. [https://myodfw.com/wildlife-viewing/species/squirrels-chipmunks-and-marmots](Western grey squirrels have no brown color at all and are bigger. Don’t think I’ve ever seen one.)
I’m quite familiar with the eastern gray, and these aren’t those, as the tails are much fluffier and also grayer as well as not having any yellow highlights like the eastern. And they’re all big boys. Some of them could be eastern but lord either way, there are a lot of squirrels here.
I guess you’re just lucky :)
They taunt my dogs constantly, which they love so they’re certainly happy. But they wake me up running around on my roof so me not so much.
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Why are you interested in killing a squirrel?
Is causing mayhem with talking moose
It calls me names, I can hear it plotting against me!
To eat!
If you intend to eat it, a hunting license is required.
That will vary widely. Near me you can kill as many as you want, it’s legal. Now why you wouldn’t eat them is beyond me, since they are delicious.
I wanted to as a kid because they kept eating my hammocks.
I’m in the US. I would look under local small game rules. You should be able to find a list or table of critters considered game, and maybe specific rules on “nuisances”. If it isn’t called out as needing anything special then you’re probably fine.
I know this would vary from locale to locale, but
But still you don’t tell for which one you are asking?
Shit, if you do in my state I’ve broken the law hundreds of times. My friend and I used to go out to this bit of farm land specifically to shoot the squirrels, because the farmer paid a bounty on each one brought back as proof. It was like an IRL low-level gold/XP farming quest!
You’d have made more money breeding squirrels. Easier too.
How? I doubt there’s much demand for them as food here, and they’re not legal to keep as pets.
You kill them and sell them to the farmer… He wouldn’t know where you shot them.
Ah lol
It’s called the Cobra Effect. India put a bounty on cobras and people started breeding them making the problem worse.
I love how every evil plan has already been implemented
Georgia has a season for hunting squirrels. I believe you can kill feral hogs anytime but are supposed to use whatever is legal for the current hunting season. Most things have a season. Your state’s DNR website should have lists.
In Maine you can hunt red squirrel all year. Grey squirrel season is like September 1 to December 31. Can’t hunt greys outside those months there.
In England it’s illigal to keep a squirrel in captivity, but it’s also illigal to release a captured squirrel back into the wild, so the only option is to (humanely) kill the poor fucker.
Grey Squirrels I presume. I imagine they don’t want the reds killed.
Probably!
Really depends state to state or even property by property. For example, you need a permit to hunt squirrels in South Carolina, however you don’t need one to hunt coyotes. The reason is 1: your more likely to go after a squirrel than you would a coyote, and 2: coyotes are actually a problem for wildlife in SC and you are actually allowed to kill one on cite. I guess the factors come down to likelihood of being a target and whether or not it’s a nuisance.
For species that are listed as nuisance animals, it can be legal to kill them without a hunting license and out of a hunting season. If there’s evidence that the animal is causing significant harm, it can generally be killed.
It is better to just keep it as a pet 😪
Not if you’re hungry!
What have you done now? Tsk tsk tsk. Don’t you know it is rude to eat your pets?
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