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Dying swans

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OMG's , that's awful :eek:

It may sound harsh, but some people need to be put out of their miserable existence , or at least incarcerated for the good of mankind :mad:

Signy
 
There was a spate of Swan killing a while ago on the Somerset Flats, I think the perpetrators should be hung drawn and quartered.
 
Remind me, is it still a treasonous offence to harm these birds ? I know at one time they belonged to the Crown

Signy
 
Yes it is still treasonable to harm a swan, and yes to put them down humanely after injury is ideal
 
Heathenlass said:
Remind me, is it still a treasonous offence to harm these birds ? I know at one time they belonged to the Crown

Signy
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I wondered that too, but even if not protected by the Queen, they are still creatures which should have a right not to be tortured or killed.
 
jack412 said:
some may see it as cruel, but I can understand why some people would want to put the damaged swan out of its misery
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It would be the humane thing to do. Not sure I would have the mettle to do it myself tbh.
 
So a toothless archaic law then :( Not that anyone gets hung drawn and quartered anymore, thankfully! What do you get for treason these days ? Community service ?

Signy
 
Avocado Sevenfold said:
I wondered that too, but even if not protected by the Queen, they are still creatures which should have a right not to be tortured or killed.
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No animal deserves to be treated like that, ever :mad: I have commented before about the Swans on the golf course when I am out on my countryside job, last week two of them were right in the middle of the course ( I was standing at the bus stop) and the golfers just walked around them. Beautiful creatures, devoted to one another and good parents to their off spring.
 
Robinredbreast said:
No animal deserves to be treated like that, ever :mad: I have commented before about the Swans on the golf course when I am out on my countryside job, last week two of them were right in the middle of the course ( I was standing at the bus stop) and the golfers just walked around them. Beautiful creatures, devoted to one another and good parents to their off spring.
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That's another thing. Don't they mate for life? Kill one and you upset the life of another one too :(
 
It's not only swans that get mindlessly slaughtered, we used to have a whole family of green woodpeckers that regularly came to our garden. We stopped seeing them after a while, and I learned later from a keen bird watcher in the next road that they'd been all found shot dead with an air gun on the school playing fields that backed onto his garden. He was devastated and furious, and it broke my heart too.

Robbity

PS I've been chased by a large peevish swan, scary - but I'd never want to kill one.
 
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