He's been prosecuted by the RSPCA
David Farrow pleaded guilty to one offence of causing unnecessary suffering to a squirrel under the Animal Welfare Act 2006.Fenn traps are designed to catch and kill small vermin, they should be set in an artificial tunnel and a person is guilty of an offence under the Pest Acts 1954 if they do not do that.by several people for trapping and drowning grey squirrels at his former home in Doncaster, South Yorks.
RSPCA inspector Tamsin Drysdale visited Farrow’s bungalow in June last year where Farrow showed her a humane trap he had set up to capture the squirrels.Hide Ad He was told to stop his actions, but when inspectors paid a further visit in October last year they found a critically-injured squirrel dangling in a fenn trap.Inspector Drysdale said: “The squirrel was hanging by its front leg from the trap, which was suspended with rope from the roof of the lean-to.A veterinary surgeon told the court that one of the squirrel’s front legs had been crushed by the trap and he would have been in 'considerable pain.
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