Traps and bad critters [legal?]

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got a couple of chickens, and some local fauna is trying to feed on them.
mainly raccons and skunks.

i dont have a trapper licences, but i was wondering if i could install some trap around.
am not always there and cant discharge firearm because of proximity with houses (150feet).
"traps are a hunter that never sleep"

can i ?
 
FLHTCUI, I think you misread, No trappers licence...

I'm curious about this too... A friend of mine has a camping trailer park, traps pests, then drounds them.
 
In Alberta as a landowner, I dispatch problem animals as I see fit. Even though our county has a firearms ban, its only for hunting and sport shooting. It does not extend to protecting your animals, property or children. A trappers or hunting lic is not required.

I trap animals such as skunks, and pop small nuisance critters with .22shorts or CBs as to not make too much noise or give the neighbors any reason to upset.
 
Joe57 said:
FLHTCUI, I think you misread, No trappers licence...

I'm curious about this too... A friend of mine has a camping trailer park, traps pests, then drounds them.
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I don't know about the laws in Quebec or other provinces, but in Ontario you're not even allowed to possess traps, except for live traps, without a trappers licence.
 
9.3mauser said:
I don't know about the laws in Quebec or other provinces, but in Ontario you're not even allowed to possess traps, except for live traps, without a trappers licence.
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Thats interesting, so how do they define what a trap is? I mean if i dig a hole in my yard, is that a trap? I have caught many small animals and snakes with a posthole auger, is that a trap?
 
The question is best put to your local CO, or game branch but in most jurisdictions you should be allowed to protect your property from wildlife. You might be required to apply for a trapper's license or a kill permit.
 
Talk to your local pest control office or bylaw office, most have live traps for such critters. They put your name on a waiting list and when it gets to the top you get the traps, usually free of charge. Then you take the critter to your neibour that you don't like and give it to him/her as a gift. Or out for a drive in the country if you want to cuddle with it before releasing it into the wild.

Best of luck.
 
9.3mauser said:
I don't know about the laws in Quebec or other provinces, but in Ontario you're not even allowed to possess traps, except for live traps, without a trappers licence.
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I never heard of that before but it is illegal to trap without a trappers license in Ontario. I cannot find anywhere in the regulations that it says possessing traps is illegal unless you are the holder of a trappers license though?

If that is true I have a lot of friends who are in violation of the law and many a time I have seen C.O's sitting in their garages with them socializing with traps hanging up on the walls and nobody being arrested or traps being seized.
 
i may or may not have some conibear hanging around... i just wanted to be sure for the day a ranger come to give me a ticket.

here in quebec the trapper licence require you to go to a "meeting" once a year (or something) to keep your licence. its like a club, or a mafia if you like.
i dont like joking around so i never thought of getting the license.
 
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