Turnpike (hunting)
A turnpike or marten turnpike is part of a deadly turnpike trap . This was used to catch predatory game , especially martens . The animal is killed by a weighted "barrow" (stick) when it pulls a bait attached to the trap. Barrier traps were usually set up on known or preferred routes of the hunted game.
The barrier trap , like the club trap and the scissor trap , is forbidden in Germany due to animal welfare laws. Since the trap makes no difference between the now protected pine marten and the stone marten that can still be hunted, it does not meet today's requirements. A raccoon could also be caught without immediately fatal effect, as it would pull the bait with its front paws and a fatal catch above the chest is not guaranteed.
literature
- Ilse Haseder , Gerhard Stinglwagner : Knaur's large hunting dictionary . Droemer Knaur , Augsburg 2000, ISBN 3-8289-1579-5 (keyword: traps, 2: manslaughter traps, c: turnpike).
- Stephan Behlen (Hrsg.): Real and verbal lexicon of forest and hunting with their auxiliary sciences . 5th volume. Verlag Johann David Sauerländer, Frankfurt am Main 1843 ( Google Books ).
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ilse Haseder, p. 216.
- ↑ Stephan Behlen, p. 693.
- ↑ Animal Welfare Act § 4: If the killing of a vertebrate animal without stunning in the context of pasture-friendly hunting or on the basis of other legal provisions or if it takes place in the context of permissible pest control measures, the killing may only be carried out if this does not result in more than unavoidable pain. Only those who have the necessary knowledge and skills may kill a vertebrate.