[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sta,—A copy of the
Spectator of March 24th came my way recently, and as I have been in the rabbit trade for nearly thirty years, buying the trapping right on several farms each season, employing trappers, and sending about one thousand rabbits per week to the Midland and North of England markets, I am rather interested in what was said at a meeting at Caxton Hall, re rabbit trapping with the steel-toothed trap and the stoop-noose snare.
As to the former its days are numbered—what a blessing !— but re the stoop-noose snare something will have to 'be done in the use of this. At present, as you know, anyone can set this snare to-day, and the law allows the man until to-morrow's sunset to visit it, and as there is no close season for trapping rabbits, should it be August, and should the rabbits run into the snare one day, the trapper is quite within his right if he does not visit his snares until the next evening, between eight and nine o'clock. But what is likely to happen to poor bunny in the meantime, with stray dogs, cats and very likely a hawk swooping down, to pick its eyes out some time through the long day Whoever helped to frame this law knew very little about rabbit trapping, but it 'is surely not too late, Sir, to mend this state of things.
The most humane way of all in trapping rabbits is the spring snare that catches and instantly kills. It should be in use everywhere.—I am, Sir, &c.; - DAN Fulmars.
8 Webb Street, Powey, Cornwall.
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