CWD - How do you handle a positive animal
- Thread starter logan1080
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Lol, no, far from it. I'm just a guy who remembers reading much of the drivel you posted years ago, pre-COVID, regarding your little patch of Sask that you wanted to high-fence and then stock with grizzlies and all manner of ungulates. You were looking for business partners for this venture, droning on and on about how you would save the animals by treating them as your own personal property and charging for hunting. Your ideas weren't well-received by most of CGN back then. Are those posts still up? Deleted? Edited? I have no idea, and certainly don't care enough to check. Maybe some newer readers here have never seen them, and think I am being too harsh in my opinion. Again, don't care.
You make several valid points. Your presentation has improved immensely since your early loony-land-baron days, but sadly, while the past is the past...people remember, and many of us recall your diatribes and will inevitably have some predisposition towards not taking you seriously. As soon as I saw your username in this thread my initial thought was "Here it comes..." and, sure enough, you delivered.
There are many things the Manitoba government does with which I don't agree, many rules and regulations that I think are ineffective or even have a negative effect. That doesn't equate to agreeing with your...interesting views.
I will take my leave now, as this thread...worthwhile as it is...seems to be degenerating into a particularly well-populated trollfest.
I like it when they tell you it is positive after you have eaten 50% of it. Submitted in Nov and results back in March.
I never cut near the spinal cord or grind out the brain. 14 years later and still hunting strong.
Hunted 12 years in AB. Maybe something like the covid scare to add extra income to some provincial political supporter of the the residing gov..
I never cut near the spinal cord or grind out the brain. 14 years later and still hunting strong.
Hunted 12 years in AB. Maybe something like the covid scare to add extra income to some provincial political supporter of the the residing gov..
Where is the like button?
- Location
- Western Manitoba
Sort of what baffled me - gov't directions at the time said to NOT get clear fluids, like spinal fluid, on things - then wanted you to cut off the head and submit it for testing. I never did figure out how to do that WITHOUT cutting across the spine at the atlas bone area ... I suppose one could "twist" off that head? - but the gov't instructions never said that.
They were so slow in 2022 at notifying the results of the CWD testing in Manitoba. They made it mandatory to submit samples, knew how many licences they usually issue and tags are filled, and yet they said they were surprised and overwhelmed by the number of samples. They had one single site in all of Winnipeg, out in Transcona. Out where I hunt, they have one location, only open till noon on Saturday. So I drove to Winker and found out that despite the Coop being open 7 days a week, they weren't accepting samples on Sunday. So much for the 48 hour deadline to turn in the sample.
- Location
- Western Manitoba
I think you are describing collection points, not the labs that do the analysis. There was a collection point at Russell - at the Vet clinic - a big box with signs along the highway - was not clear to me how often that box was emptied, by whom or where the samples were taken for analysis.
Were you supposed to just throw the head in the box with the head tag attached? I'd have thought they wanted some information as to the date harvested and the exact location. The head tag doesn't show where it was harvested, and I'm pretty sure they were wanting that info. I'm not sure how self serve would have worked, but in 2022 they are talking about hours of operation of collection sites, not a drop box.
That's what I thought. So I don't understand how a self serve drop box would work. Isn't there paperwork to fill out when you submit? None was provided to hunters in advance back in 2022.
BigUglyMan
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- Location
- New Scotland
You have it backwards. CWD is in the West, and not in the East, at least, not past Quebec.
You're not really any better at this forum thing, despite your lengthy time out.
In Alberta you fill out a card and indicate the precise location, and date where the animal was harvested. With most folks carrying a GPS receiver these days that isn't really a big deal but even if you were not I think you could just take Geographic coordinates off a map and it would be just fine.
- Location
- Western Manitoba
You could be correct - I have been in Manitoba since 2014 - I do not recall dropping of a head for testing here. I might be getting confused with the "Donate a Hide" thing that Sask Wildlife Federation was running. I doubt they want you standing at counter with "thawing" game head to do "paperwork" - as I recall, hide tag was affixed to ear - wrote down that number - head dropped outside in box (mine were usually in a garbage bag) - then go inside and use that number to do the "papers". Not actually "self-serve", except that part about dropping it in the box, outside.
Seeing as how no one has ever gotten CWD I'm the one on solid ground.
But hey, you Nervous Nellies can give up hunting and eat store bought meat and food from India and China and cantaloupe from fields Mexicans are pooping in and live forever...
