On Fri, 29 Jul 2016 09:24:48 -0400, Nancy Young
> wrote:

>On 7/29/2016 8:22 AM, wrote:
>
>> Maybe they would drive ten miles further away from you - maybe it
>> would not go in a trap again having learned a lesson. Whatever but
>> just callously dropping the trap in water with a live animal in it,
>> cruel.
>
>That would get you jail time, here. To the extreme, the local
>SPCA chief prosecuted a man for killing rats in his gardens.
>Drowning a wild animal would be seen as cruelty.
>
>nancy

There are ways and ways to do necessary things. My aunt who lived on
a poultry farm had outdoor cats who reproduced too rapidly from time
to time. She had a box full of cotton wool, she warmed the whole
thing in the Aga then took all save one of the kittens, put them in,
put another layer of warm cotton wool then sprinkled well with
chloroform - they never knew. The mum still had one kitten so was
not going to be in season for at least six months.