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What are these trap things found in the ytorkshire dales?

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mariokart_uk@reddit

Used to catch 6ft long giant mice!
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Tillykin@reddit

To kill every living thing it can do the posh twats can happily shoot every living thing in the sky.
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Anxious-Start-2889@reddit

I just came here for the stupid, got some and more đŸ«ŁđŸ€ŁđŸ€Ł
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Hydraenial@reddit

If nobody has said, likely to be for stoats or weasels (illegal if for the former), they're called fen traps. Used by the grouse shooting brigade to keep the moors devoid of anything other game birds
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NoNefariousness608@reddit

Found many of these on the Peak District moors near Windscar Reservoir years ago, and destroyed all of them as we walked past. I figured if it was the national parks folks they should’ve labelled them to explain what they were trying to do. And now I know it’s grouse hunters I’ll be sure to destroy them all next time too. 
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OkResponsibility322@reddit

Does it just protect the grouse or all ground nesting birds?
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Albertjweasel@reddit

“Anything devoid of game birds” the yorkshire dales have sizeable populations of waders like curlew, golden plover, and lapwing, raptors like merlin and hen harriers and other species like black grouse, ring ouzel, and meadow pipit, and they are there precisely because of work done by gamekeepers
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Able-Jello5177@reddit

Absolute waffle lad, you’re just saying there are SOME other birds, if you look at what the ecosystem should look like gamekeepers are doing more harm than good, they’re completely unnecessary
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donster222@reddit

No, it’s a DOC150 trap. Legal for stoats and weasels in the UK. Also mink, grey squirrels and rats. Very specific regulations about how and where to set it up though.
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Electric_Didgeridoo@reddit

 Amazing!
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pippysquibbins@reddit

and hedgehogs, small rabbits, birds and anything else that is unfortunate enough.
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kingbluetit@reddit

As long as it has talons, claws, teeth or isn’t a red grouse, they’ll kill it. And if it’s in season, they’ll kill the grouse too. Driven grouse shooting is the scourge of the countryside, no matter how much the lie about being ‘custodians of wildlife’.
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Past-Rooster-9437@reddit

Custodians of Very Specific Wildlife.
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mightytonto@reddit

Grouse shooting is also horrible in terms of environmental destruction. Heather burning for wankers to basically shoot birds in a barrel is not only awful, it’s a fucking travesty how much damage this ‘sport’ causes. Upper class twattism at its finest
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MothEatenMouse@reddit

And still release millions of birds despite avian flu and the risks of spreading it even further. Custodians my arse.
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Pure_Examination_730@reddit

They don’t release grouse, grouse can’t be bred unlike pheasants and partridge
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Speshal__@reddit

Red or Black?
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florageek54@reddit

Either.
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CarpetGripperRod@reddit

Laden or unladen?
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Dodohobo@reddit

African or European?
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Tiny-Today7768@reddit

Spit or Swallow?
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kingbluetit@reddit

They don’t release grouse in large numbers, but grouse populations are still artificially boosted by predator removal (and raptor persecution), ‘controlled’ burning of heather (which delicates reptile populations, feeding stations (which spread disease) and removal of any plant that isn’t heather (which destroys biodiversity and leaves room for grouse and grouse alone). Most grouse moors are ecologically dead apart from grouse, and occasionally curlews which the shooting fraternity hails as their ‘win for conservation’
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Epipogium_aphyllum@reddit

Glad it's not just me thinking that. Had to shut my poor chickens in for months a few years ago, got my tinfoil hat twitching a bit thinking that it's mad that we all (self sufficient types) have to shut in chooks when they're usually out eating slugs and snails just so that the mega chicken farms don't suffer any losses (but still pollute the Wye)
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Worth-Lime-1862@reddit

Yeah, it's pretty wild how they continue to release birds with all those risks. The whole driven grouse shooting scene really feels more about profit than conservation at this point.
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florageek54@reddit

Grouse aren't released as they don't breed in captivity, though millions of Pheasants & Red-legged Partridges are released.
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scorchedarcher@reddit

What the people who actively enjoy killing animals as their hobby aren't the nice guys they made themselves out to be?
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WoodyManic@reddit

Disgusting blue-blooded murderers.
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Particular-Sort-9720@reddit

Yep. Wish I could give this comment an award, it's bang on.
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Top-Dun@reddit

I got you
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turkeypants@reddit

and lambs, and sloths, and carp, and anchovies, and orangutans, and breakfast cereals, and fruit bats...
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WeMoveInTheShadows@reddit

Skip a bit brother...
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Inoffensive_Comments@reddit

“*Gosh, we’re all really impressed down here, I can tell you.*”
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Disastrous_Mud_6816@reddit

This cracked me up 😆
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EnbyArthropod@reddit

That doesn't mean (and I know this for a fact) that it isn't used for illegal purposes. I defer to the comment above yours - living in a rural area means you often know the people breaking the law.
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bushcraftbobb@reddit

I used to work on an estate where the game keeper bragged about shooting " brown crows" which confused me then i found out he meant buzzards and red kites, he didnt keep his job and lost his grace and favour house after the complaint.
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EnbyArthropod@reddit

Don't want to upvote horrible things, but oh so accurate
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caffeine_lights@reddit

I just googled out of curiosity because it looks like a larger version of the "humane mouse trap" we used to have for when the cat brought in a live mouse or when a hamster escaped. You can release the animal without harm. It is called a humane trap in the search results, does it work roughly the same?
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donster222@reddit

No. Humane in this context means very quick death. Based on the requirements for entry into the cage (essentially size) it is designed to make sure nothing leaves alive.
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SowwieWhopper@reddit

Either way, stomp the fuck out of them if you see one
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AskUK-ModTeam@reddit

r/AskUK does not allow threats of violence
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Still-BangingYourMum@reddit

No No No, you have got this all wrong! These are called "Lanc Traps". And we're originally used to catch infiltrating Lancashire men, before they could get to close to the native population. These are the recently introduced humane traps, btw
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-pagan@reddit

 Keep it up!
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Brief_Pomegranate118@reddit

What a shame it would be if op accidently set it off and left it useless
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Albertjweasel@reddit

It would be a shame for the ground nesting birds such as curlew that it’s protecting
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jesussays51@reddit

Or stamped on it by mistake
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Milam1996@reddit

The ecological mass slaughter committed on the dales with the use of sheep and sports hunters is truly astounding. The famous purple bush like plant that the dales are known for? Yeah that’s literally the one plant that sheep hate the taste of. Literally anything else that grows is immediately ate by sheep and anything else that lives is shot by sport hunters. The dales should be a nature hot spot of international renown and instead they’re essentially deserts. There’s a reason why the UK has one of the lowest bio diversity rankings on the planet and it’s almost entirely caused by farmers and hobby hunters.
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TeHNeutral@reddit

Not gigantic corpos dumping shit in rivers and the like too?
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TheCheesemongere@reddit

Why not both - and you'll find significant overlap on the boards of those corps with the landowners and grouse shooters.
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TeHNeutral@reddit

That's why said too! We agree
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TheCheesemongere@reddit

So you did sorry
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StefaniStar@reddit

Reading ' The Book of Trespass" at the moment and a chapter covers a lot of this. Fascinating look into our history and how we got to the situation we are in today. 
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7952@reddit

And because it is so pretty we can't even build wind farms.  
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goin-up-the-country@reddit

Fuck hunters
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PracticalPelicann@reddit

Minks are not native to the UK. Fuck minks.
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FancyAd3294@reddit

Humans are not native to the UK, fuck us.
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Massive-Gur6479@reddit

Best comment I have ever seen in this shit hole cesspit cosplaying as humanity
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Bacon4Lyf@reddit

it aint that bad
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Massive-Gur6479@reddit

If you care about animals and feel physically unwell thinking of all the suffering humans project onto animals then it is in fact hell because I feel every fucking pain for animals and it is hard.
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Massive-Gur6479@reddit

Why were my comments deleted - just for saying we need to help animals?
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DrederickTatumsBum@reddit

It's not all bad.
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Spiritual-Oven-9936@reddit

We're all animals...
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Massive-Gur6479@reddit

We are the only ones that are capable of feeling empathy though. And we deserve to use that to prevent suffering wherever we can. Or what is the point in feeling empathy?
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Spiritual-Oven-9936@reddit

I believe elephants, chimps, dolphins (and a fair few other animals experience empathy aswell) ...does yours extend to other humans? Bit of a difficult feat stretching empathy as far and wide as you/we would ideally like As for the statement 'we should use that to prevent suffering wherever we can' my brain agrees.. buuuut.. one read of 'Do you think what you think you think' - Julian Baggiani would probably show the conflict in that line of thought
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GnaphaliumUliginosum@reddit

Being eaten by a stoat is pretty painful for a rabbit. And if that sort of thing bothers you, definitely don't look up parasitoids, enough to make Darwin think twice about the existance of a loving, omniscient creator. Pain happens contantly and ubiquitously, being distracted by the pain in front of us stops us examining the broader cultural structures we participate in that create worse pain, but beyond our immediate view. We need a rational undertanding alongside empathy, and also an ability to accept that pain is often unavoidable.
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Jonoabbo@reddit

Christ.
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Ok-Application-8045@reddit

The UK has been inhabited by humans continuously since the end of the last ice age, so we're about as native as most of the other wildlife here.
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GnaphaliumUliginosum@reddit

Various other species of Homo were here before the last ice age too.
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WittyWitWitt@reddit

*Species of Homo* How many?
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FancyAd3294@reddit

Actually that doesn't fit my narrative so you're wrong
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thesaharadesert@reddit

Fuck me
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FancyAd3294@reddit

Only if the Minks can get involved
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marmmalade@reddit

That’s kinky
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Ok_Tea_6598@reddit

That's minky
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SelfSufficientHub@reddit

Mommy
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Silencer-1995@reddit

I like where this is going.
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pokaprophet@reddit

You know nobody wants to do that Barry

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Inner_Relationship28@reddit

You are incorrect these are what fenn traps were replaced with, the Doc trap. It is illegal to trap stoats with a fenn trap not a Doc.
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thedummyman@reddit

You too are incorrect. These things do not “trap” stoats, they kill or maim stoats and anything else that fits through the wire.
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BeneficialGrade7961@reddit

If they aren't getting out, I'd call them trapped.
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Inner_Relationship28@reddit

You too are incorrect, they don't maim.anything, they are very powerful and kill stoats rats and weasels instantly
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Shiftycatz@reddit

I once got my hand jammed in a fen trap. STG I thought I'd broken all 4 fingers
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inevitablelizard@reddit

Actually a DOC trap as someone else has replied, which is a replacement for the Fenns which lost approval for stoats a few years ago, the cut off point was around the time covid hit. Fenns were the overwhelming industry standard for grouse moors up to that point but the DOC traps (and another called Tully) have replaced them.
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Independent-Try4352@reddit

Exactly, they're certainly not 'mink only' traps, they kill anything that can fit through the mesh. Also, if it's not near water it's not for mink.
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Albertjweasel@reddit

Sorry, I forgot Reddit doesn’t like truths or facts, you just sit comfy in your little echo-chamber, lad.
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True-Astronomer-4273@reddit

Disarm them!!!
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UK369369@reddit

Possibly small mammal traps that ecologists have left.
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Sea-Situation7495@reddit

It looks to me like it's a haggis trap. Some haggis have been seen leaving their native Scotland, are becoming an invasive species. As is well known, haggis' only predator is man, and there is a sorry lack of kilted hairy men in Yorkshire. This is specifically designed to catch clockwise haggis, which helps reduce the chances of accidentally trapping other species: clockwise haggis are well known to be the more cunning of the wild haggis. So far there have been no confirmed sightings of anticlockwise haggis south of the border.
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InspiringGecko@reddit

[https://www.regionalmoorlandgroups.com/news/lets-talk-about-traps](https://www.regionalmoorlandgroups.com/news/lets-talk-about-traps)
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AardvarkMike@reddit

I love how that lot somehow manage to frame it like they are protecting these vulnerable bird species out of the kindness of their own hearts. It's just a means of creating monodiversity to ensure the maximum number of self-same birds to murder next shooting season. Ban all forms of shooting.
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inevitablelizard@reddit

Grouse moors for all their faults are where a hell of a lot of our remaining wading birds still breed successfully, including Curlew which are internationally threatened. Be very careful what you wish for. I don't like how intensively managed most grouse estates are but I am not convinced there is any realistic better use of the land if you were to remove shooting entirely. All the realistic replacements for it would do more damage to wildlife (massive increase in tourism, commercial forestry monoculture, or higher levels of sheep grazing). And ban *all* forms of shooting? Enjoy the extinction of species that require invasive species to be culled to protect them. And enjoy having all our woodlands be wrecked by deer overpopulation, whether that's red deer wrecking the Scottish pine forests or Muntjac deer wrecking the shrub layer of broadleaved woodlands which is a major problem for a lot of woodland bird species.
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milgi617@reddit

They haven’t been wrecked! Easy answer, wolves and lynx.
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AardvarkMike@reddit

The estates feed the deer in winter to keep the numbers up 🙃 They are not doing any of this for altruistic reasons.
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Uhtredskaer@reddit

Shooting is what controls the rabbit, pigeon, and deer (particularly deer) populations in the UK. Industrialised gamebird shooting sure, but wanting to ban all forms of shooting, no. 
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web3monk@reddit

deer yes. But foxes, badgers, buzzards, hawks, weasels and stoats all natural predators for rabbits (in areas where they are not wiped out by shooting estates).
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ManikShamanik@reddit

Grey squirrels have only one natural predator in the UK - the Pine Marten, and that was only discovered by accident when a team from CPRE and Natural England were monitoring Pine Martens which had been reintroduced to the New Forest and their camera traps caught one with a grey squirrel in its mouth. Pine Martens will also take Red Squirrels, but greys are easier to catch because they're more terrestrial.
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Milam1996@reddit

What controls the deer population is apex predators like wolves. Can’t ever never ever have those though because livestock are more important than anything else.
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2xw@reddit

The deer population is now so massive, and the land so divided by fencing, that reintroducing wolves at their natural density wouldnt even put a dent in deer populations. Not that this is an argument **against** introducing wolves, just against the idea that they would affect the deer populatikn.
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inevitablelizard@reddit

Motorways etc too. They have the effect of dividing up the countryside into lots of islands which some species struggle to move between, each island individually too small to sustain a viable population. Wolves for example would almost certainly end up restricted to the Highlands, and the Scottish central belt would be a barrier preventing them spreading any further.
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Imperator_Helvetica@reddit

It's more sporting to tackle the clay pigeon mano et mano after stalking it by night after rousting it from its burrow.
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InspiringGecko@reddit

I know! It confused me when I first read the article, and then I realised what their angle was.
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Whiskey079@reddit

So what's the over-under on 'accidentally' settings these things off to fuck with those bastards messing up the biodiversity? Any potential charges there?
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Organic_Mechanic_702@reddit

If they are there for Mink, Mink aren't biodiversity, they are a nightmare for indigious species.
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Whiskey079@reddit

Someone pointed out this one, in particular, isn't for Mink, as it's nowhere near the water. Hence, my biodiversity line; the trap itself has also been identified as a DOC150 - which, in its 'run-through' configuration, is only authorised in the UK for use on rats, stoats and weasels.
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bluesam3@reddit

This doesn't look like a tunnel to me, so sounds like it's illegal.
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Slartitartfast@reddit

Nah, what are they gonna do? If you see a trap you destroy it, them's the country rules. If you walk past a pheasant feeding trough and happen to accidentally knock it over/leave the lid off so it spoils, also unfortunate.
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AMightyDwarf@reddit

Yeah, accidentally setting these off
 with a sledge hammer.
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Mumlife8628@reddit

Nothing natural about nature being humanly controlled because we fooked up real nature that's self sufficient so well 😬😬
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Slartitartfast@reddit

God that fucking group. Such a bunch of bellends trying their hardest to legitimise what is, essentially, animal cruelty for enjoyment.
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InspiringGecko@reddit

I was a bit confused when I started reading the article. It was like they were trying to "protect" the birds from other animals. Then I realised why. I used to do outdoor adventure-type classes with a guy up in Yorkshire who used to set off these traps with his walking poles whenever we found one. Make them do some extra work and save some animals in the process.
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Jojo6167@reddit

It's to catch Borrowers
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Strange-Berry8577@reddit

I destroy these when I see them on behalf of mink, stoats, weasels, rats and squirrels. Hunters can fuck right off.
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Nectarine-999@reddit

It might be breaking a law for criminal damage but I’d crush that fucking thing.
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HermesOnToast@reddit

Wasn't wearing my glasses and thought "how did that submarine get up that cliff"
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RushBear@reddit

Billionaires decided the deep ocean was too risky for their fancy pants submarines, so they took em up t'mountains instead.
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V65Pilot@reddit

Womble traps. Some escaped from Wimbledon and were last seen traveling across the dales.
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mightytonto@reddit

Wimle-ing free last time I checked
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Tasty_Ad_4548@reddit

That trap looks very precarious where it has been set...could roll off and be crushed by the weight of that enourmously heavy bit of wood its attatched to!
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ReTardigrade_1@reddit

Nasty way to go. https://preview.redd.it/8wmruhmc232g1.jpeg?width=4032&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ef50ee31dfb36ba94f5459de32dbebdc8e34f49e
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KezzyKesKes@reddit

Good. One less tree rat.
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EthicalViolator@reddit

That's not what this particular trap does. It has bars that come down an "humanely kill", though I have my doubts about how humane and quick it actually is.
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ReTardigrade_1@reddit

Yeah, I assume that this poor squirrel suffered a slow and painful death as it didn't actually get caught in the trap as intended.
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cyanotypedd@reddit

A trapping device so the landed gentry and their rich pals in tweed can continue their untold slaughter and domination of our uplands at the expense of any sort of rich ecology or diverse local economy. And I say this as someone who's family has come from an upland region of the UK for hundreds of years - it wasn't always like this, and hopefully it won't be forever.
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Andr0idUser@reddit

Spoken by someone that doesn't actually live in the country. If you did you wouldn't be talking such drivel. 95% of the people involved in shooting, deer stalking, fishing etc are working class folk and since we no longer have wolves, deer need to be culled to avoid habitat damage for other animals. Game birds are obviously fed & bred to be shot, without trapping predators and moving them elsewhere hundreds of people would be out of jobs. We invite the toffs in too shoot and they pay a fortune for it. Pheasants & grouse are never shot prematurely. This is our way of life, We're not asking you to be part of it but I would encourage you to go and actually meet the people involved and discover the process as you clearly have a very twisted view of things.
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theOriginalGBee@reddit

I live in the country and IMHO you're full of shit. There are plenty of people here, if not a majority, who oppose shooting even if they are too scared of upsetting their loud and obnoxious neighbours to voice that out loud. At least round here most of the people working the shoots and estates travel in from the towns - they aren't rural workers and they aren't local.  You and I both now that illegal predator control happens all the time, we see it constantly. We've all seen the raptors being shot from the sky, stumbled across the poisoned carcasses, found snares etc. It's not a "traditional family business" but a criminal enterprise that often uses intimidation against anyone locally who speaks out. 
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Andr0idUser@reddit

Totally agree with you on the Birds of Prey being shot. A local guy did that near us and fellow shooters reported him. Lost his gun license and got a jail sentence as they found more near where he tried to bury it. Badgers being killed and dumped in the road as 'roadkill' makes sense to me. I have a friend who's family farm was shut down due to bovine TB and cost them a fortune, they had to cull all their livestock and obviously can't sell any meat despite all the money dumped into those cattle. Must be a regional thing, we're in Rural Scotland and there aren't any big towns. It's a rural business, multi generational farms and estates and most of the people working there also had their dads working there. I imagine it will be the way you describe in the Cotswolds but it certainly isn't our experience.
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theOriginalGBee@reddit

I'm on the Scottish border ... FYI Badger TB vaccinations are a thing, they work and even DEFRA finally recognised that which is why badger culling is no longer legal. Attacking badgers in fact only makes the problem of bovine TB worse - it causes badgers to disperse from the area they are persecuted into neighbouring territories spreading TB to other badger populations and to cattle/dairy herds along the way.
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cyanotypedd@reddit

Fishing and deer stalking are a complete different thing to game bird shooting and, if you are such an expert as you claim, would know that. The rearing of game bird shooting is incredibly ecologically destructive - equating that with deer control is an immense false equivalence. I live in the countryside and my family have for probably more generations than you can even imagine. It doesn't mean I should have to agree with the merciless of treatment of wildlife for a limited few to enjoy it. I would prefer a moorland not exclusively at the reserve of shooting, where mixed use could expand employment and ecosystem diversity beyond this singular industry, as well as its potential as a wildlife habitat and carbon sink (something your ilk couldn't care less about with your controlled burns). I know plenty of people involved including extended family but I still do not agree with it in the slightest and its total dominance of our upland landscapes. If anything, the narrow minded reaction by landowners and gamekeepers that this is the only way of life possible for rural upland Britain only spurs people like me further into fighting against it. Ironically, you should try and talk to locals who don't agree and why, and consider alternative viewpoints, and discover the 'process' of being from rural England but not wanting to participate in yearly mass slaughter of birds, all to be tossed in a stink pit and left to rot.
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MacDaddy2605@reddit

For catching Hobbits
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Deyooya@reddit

To trap those pesky Londoners that come up for a hiking holiday either completely under or over prepared. It's your standard trap and release situation. They can be lured in with some small batch hand ground coffee beans and some oat milk. Just careful and don't stick your fingers through the mesh. They look innocent with their folded up Skandi hats or scullcaps and oversized glasses, jackets, well, other sized everything really. But they are known to bite if they don't get their matcha lattes.
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Cantbearsed1992@reddit

What it is, is an antiquated awful thing to kill any sort of nature other than what they want to kill - the awful irony 😡
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Only_Tip9560@reddit

Haggis traps to prevent encroachment from up north.
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special_moves@reddit

See them everywhere on grouse moors found them with lizards in also, might have to make a point of smashing them up but I would only be called a vandal
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Albertjweasel@reddit

I very much doubt that you ever saw one with a lizard in it, the plates that trigger them would not get set off by something as light as a lizard, (what would even be the point of something so sensitive that it got set off all time?) I’m willing to be proven wrong if you post a photo of a lizard in one of these traps, but if not then this comment is a definite candidate for r/thathappened
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Albertjweasel@reddit

It’s for ground predators like Stoat, Weasel and Rat, essential if you want to keep ground-nesting birds, predator control is one of the reasons the Yorkshire Dales still have a sizeable population of Curlew, with some moors having populations greater than that of the entire area of England south of Birmingham.
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ProlapseProvider@reddit

Mink trap, they sued to be farmed but then a bunch of stupid animal rights idiots used their combined IQ of 60 to set a bunch of them free. The free minks then went on to breed and decimate certain native wildlife. Same sort of people went on promote Open Borders movement.
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68_namfloW@reddit

Are you ok?
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ProlapseProvider@reddit

Yep, just don't like invasive species killing off native animals which can have knock on effects with much wider consequences for the local environment, you should look in to it you know how to use google. Are you ok?
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68_namfloW@reddit

I’m great, thank you. You sound like someone who spends too much time reading The Daily Mail.
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ProlapseProvider@reddit

I have no idea what you are going on about now. Good luck kiddo and I hope your parents know you are online without adult supervision.
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68_namfloW@reddit

lol. My parents are aware I’m online. Do you carers know that you should getting hot cocoa and bed?
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AskUK-ModTeam@reddit

Don't be a dick to each other, or other subreddits, places, or people. Don't be a dick to each other, or other subreddits, places, or people. AskUK contains a variety of ages, experiences, and backgrounds - consider not everyone is operating on the same level or background as you. Listen to others before you respond, and be courteous when doing so.
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ProlapseProvider@reddit

What's you actual issue here? You like minks in the uk and think it's bad to kill them? Or you think open borders are fine? If it's either of those things you are thick.
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68_namfloW@reddit

I think you’re an angry person that believes everything the right wing press pushes. Open borders would probably solve a few problems, yeah. I’m not a liberal so I won’t be mocking your intelligence, I’ll leave that to you.
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ProlapseProvider@reddit

Oh yeah, open borders would be fine you think? Africa alone can send a million uneducated, jobless men to the UK every year, India the same, Russia the same. Every country could empty their prisons and send every single criminal to the UK. Lets say 5mill a year.. You clearly have a child like outlook on life, politics and economy. Very stupid dangerous person.
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MarrV@reddit

Gone right off the deep end here....
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ProlapseProvider@reddit

You think it's fine? You ok with open borders? Can I send a couple arabs, a polish man and african man to your house?
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MarrV@reddit

You are being exceptionally dramatic with no evidence or proof to substantiate your claims. I have a few Arab friends, worked with some poles and a good friend who is African, to generally they are kind and hinest, hard working people. Once you take your racist glasses off you will be amazed at how deluded you sound.
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68_namfloW@reddit

100%. I’ve got some great memories and worked with some really cool people who’ve taught me some stuff that has massively helped me out. Couldn’t give a shit that they were foreign.
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AskUK-ModTeam@reddit

Don't be a dick to each other, or other subreddits, places, or people. Don't be a dick to each other, or other subreddits, places, or people. AskUK contains a variety of ages, experiences, and backgrounds - consider not everyone is operating on the same level or background as you. Listen to others before you respond, and be courteous when doing so.
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AskUK-ModTeam@reddit

Don't be a dick to each other, or other subreddits, places, or people. Don't be a dick to each other, or other subreddits, places, or people. AskUK contains a variety of ages, experiences, and backgrounds - consider not everyone is operating on the same level or background as you. Listen to others before you respond, and be courteous when doing so.
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CasualGlam87@reddit

As stupid as those animal rights people were, they weren't the cause of mink issues in the UK. Mink had been escaping from farms since the 1920s. Mink were first confirmed breeding in the UK in the 50s, and by the 1960s were found in over half the counties in England and large parts of Scotland and Wales. Activists didn't release mink until the 1990s when they were already fully established in the wild and wrecking havoc. The vast majority of mink released by activists were either recaptured or killed. It's thought very few contributed to the existing wild population as these mink were a lot tamer and less wild than the original escapees. Mink should never have been brought here in the first place.
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ProlapseProvider@reddit

Ok, good to know, and yes they should never have been brought here, was a catastrophe waiting to happen. Same think with all 'exotic' animals including non-native ants as pets. Until recently you could argue "well even if they do escape the winter will kill them off". But with climate change going the way it is there could be occasions where non-native ants become massive problem for the local environment. Like literally we are past mid November and today is the 1st day it's been actually cold.
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CasualGlam87@reddit

Yeah, if things like raccoons ever became established in the UK it would be a nightmare. Thankfully they're now illegal to keep as pets. This has actually become a big issue with foxes. Like mink, farmed foxes had been escaping since the 1920s. The ones from farms are a different species from our native foxes but still able to breed with them. Now they're becoming popular pets but so many escape or get dumped in the wild and continue crossbreeding. These farm foxes have longer coats, bigger size, different fur colours and are much tamer than wild ones. Hybridisation has become so common in areas that it's changing the look and behaviour of some fox populations in the UK. In my area a pet silver (black) fox escaped a a decade ago, and now a lot of foxes in the area have become much bigger and darker in colour than normal.
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Dry_rye_@reddit

Foxes have massive, and I mean massive, natural size variation so it's unlikely a single fur farm fox would be responsible for a general upward trend of fox size within a region. Fur foxes are also the same species as the red fox, Vulpes Vulpes they are simply melanistic
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CasualGlam87@reddit

I'm not taking a whole region, I'm taking about a few streets in an urban area where this fox was known to be breeding with wild ones. A lot of inbreeding occurs in urban fox populations which solidifies new traits quicker than you'd see in the wider countryside. There are people who have been studying the rise in hybrid foxes in the UK for years. In some areas farm traits, like distinct colours, longer fur and tamer behaviour, are becoming dominant. These areas often correspond with places where there were known fur farms keeping foxes before the 2000 ban. The foxes on fur farms are American red foxes (Vulpes fulva) that were originally captured in Canada, while the ones in the UK are European red foxes (Vulpes vulpes). [Genetic analysis has shown they are two distinct species](https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25212210/).
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pippysquibbins@reddit

I knew a farmer who did a stint as a mink farmer in the 70s. He was in the wrong job. He said 'they were cute little things, I used to let them go occasionally'.
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ShouldBeAsleepRN@reddit

Those AR activists weren't thinking. But, mink have been escaping mink farms for 100+ years. They were already well established in the wild before the AR activists came along. So I doubt releasing a few more is the reason for the infestation.
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Sasspishus@reddit

This kind of trap is not for Mink.
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ProlapseProvider@reddit

yes it is
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Sasspishus@reddit

It's for stoats, weasels, rats etc. A mink is unlikely to fit into this trap (because they're purposely set up up to exclude larger mammals), and mink tend to hang out near water sources. Mink traps are usually set in floating tunnels along water channels.
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ProlapseProvider@reddit

Do you know exactly how close the nearest water source is?
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Sasspishus@reddit

From the photo it looks like this is up a hill. Mink usually go for larger watercourses so they don't spend much time up in the hills
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ProlapseProvider@reddit

Up a hill by what? 1km? 1m? 50cm?
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bluesam3@reddit

Just, like, look at the third photo? It's visibly nowhere near a river.
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Sasspishus@reddit

OK clearly you're just looking for an argument rather than a rational discussion so I'll leave it there now. Goodbye.
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Inevitable-Sock-4456@reddit

And what about the Mink? 
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ProlapseProvider@reddit

What do you mean? All mink? or the ones in the UK? You can literally google "Mink in UK" and you have all the info you need.
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Inevitable-Sock-4456@reddit

Oh sorry you were still on about the mink thought you’d digressed

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ProlapseProvider@reddit

Looks like it's past your bedtime kiddo. Nn x
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funkball@reddit

How did you swerve to open borders?
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SilkySmoothRalph@reddit

Too a bit of a hard right turn there
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PhilScofie@reddit

Had me in the first half!
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PerLin107@reddit

Isnt that current green party policy... maybe
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Infamous-Initial-573@reddit

So, if you stumbled across one of these traps by chance and saw a mink inside, would you just ignore it?
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ProlapseProvider@reddit

It's a kill trap, so yeah, I see a trap with a dead mink in it, I keep walking or reset it to kill the next mink.
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PerLin107@reddit

Hell yes. Mink are naaty little things notwithstanding they look cute. Also not native to the uk
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The_39th_Step@reddit

That’s what you should do
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miqqqq@reddit

Yes.. exactly that. Minks are ferocious and kill everything they can even if they’re not gonna eat it. They’re also enough of a threat to bigger animals that almost nothing we have would bother to try preying on them
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ahfckicntblvuvdnths@reddit

What would you do?
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zalanka02@reddit

Those traps are likely DOC150 traps, designed for controlling stoats, weasels, and other small invasive species. They must meet specific legal requirements to protect non-target animals.
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fothergillfuckup@reddit

We have really, really small bears.
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Far-Juggernaut-4694@reddit

Wow I thought this was a house on a hilltop from really far away.
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Throwaway72667@reddit

Where abouts in the Yorkshire Dales did you find this? It wasn't Scarhouse Reservoir was it?
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PhilScofie@reddit

I feel like this thread supports mink shaming, it’s 2025, don’t mink shame
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inide@reddit

They're a highly destructive invasive species.
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Otherwise-Mammoth754@reddit

So are we.
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NotSayingAliensBut@reddit

What, redditors who don't recognise a tongue in cheek comment? 😁 Anyway, Philscofie, it's not my politics, it's my mink. 😎
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That_Presence_5247@reddit

It needs to “accidently” be destroyed.
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knockinonevansdoor@reddit

Do the Dales Nd every four legged creature a favour and stamp on it to crush it next time you see one 👍
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AliveAd2219@reddit

Haggis traps. Too many haggis incursions into England these days.
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onion2594@reddit

i’m having a really hard time figuring out if this is a zoomed in picture of a massive structure on a cliff and that “trap” is for people to stop and rest at, maybe indefinitely. other shots look like a drone took the picture
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Allingtonlad@reddit

They need adjusting with a hammer
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Old-Growth-6233@reddit

For Lancastrians. Usually baited with a meat and tater pie and a 4 pack of boddingtons
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BiscuitBoy77@reddit

They're for whippets 
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EthicalViolator@reddit

Watched [this](https://youtu.be/N_kBoF5RKSg?si=yDYtzQDiD_LTSK9N) video on one being set up and used. Be warned it does include a animal being found in one. I have my doubts about the instant death... the stoats skull doesn't look crushed in this video. It may have been but I wouldn't be suprised if it was alive and trapped for a long time in those bars. Can't seem to find a video showing how much force they come down with but it doesn't look particularly difficult to cock.
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Acting_Normally@reddit

Put your hand in and check 🙂 Keep us posted 👍
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Peter01932@reddit

You should go back and destroy any traps you find.
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IridiumFlareon@reddit

Now that you know what it is, I hope you’ll vandalise each one you see. That’s really the only ethical option. 
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constructuscorp@reddit

I have no concept of the scale of this image. It looks like a zoomed out shot of a large building amongst some trees.
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manic_panda@reddit

How else do you think we stop your mum if she strays past Leeds?
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ukbot-nicolabot@reddit

A top level comment (one that is not a reply) should be a good faith and genuine attempt to answer the question
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Skinnybet@reddit

I think it’s spelled t’yorkshire.
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ukbot-nicolabot@reddit

A top level comment (one that is not a reply) should be a good faith and genuine attempt to answer the question
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JBobSpig@reddit

Spelt t' Yorkshire. I know it's hard bud please do better.
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Skinnybet@reddit

I only have a smattering of T’yorkshire gleaned from watching The last of the summer wine. T’pub t’work and Yorkshire T. I have met a few of them when they had escaped across the border and they didn’t know that a cob is called a cob. I was disappointed because they had no ferrets in their trousers.
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JBobSpig@reddit

Fun part, pretty much every town and city has a slightly different accent and the 4 different Yorkshire's are easy to spot accent wise. They absolutely did have ferrets in their trousers they just didn't show you them 
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Skinnybet@reddit

I asked especially about the ferrets. Seems very rude to not show them when requested.
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account_not_valid@reddit

'n OP i'lyin'. T'aint t'Yorkshire, coz t'aint rainin' in photo.
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rexific@reddit

But pronounced T’Yarksher
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Time-Chest-1733@reddit

Aye lad.
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West_Yorkshire@reddit

*teardrop of Yorkshire tea rolls down cheek* Aye, lad... Aye...
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Boatjumble@reddit

Trap and release. They're for catching southerners and sending them back down south.
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ukbot-nicolabot@reddit

A top level comment (one that is not a reply) should be a good faith and genuine attempt to answer the question
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Evening-Web-3038@reddit

This method is barbaric and should never be encouraged. Studies have shown that Londoners get distressed because the trap is more spacious than their ÂŁ1500-a-month 1 room apartment.
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Old-Sky1969@reddit

This method is barbaric and should never be encouraged. Studies have shown that Londoners get distressed because the trap is more spacious than their ÂŁ1500-a-month 1 room ~~apartment~~ shoebox.
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Jetpackexitplan@reddit

1 room shoebox! You were lucky
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Leroy-Leo@reddit

We could only dream of shoeboxes when we were growing up. We only had the cardboard inner of a toilet roll
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DriverLazy360@reddit

Cardboard inner? Luxury. There were 34 of us living under a single square of council issue single ply.
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sketchymetal@reddit

Council issue? We had IZAL and were ‘appy wi’ it.
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Captain-Codfish@reddit

I lived in an old cigarette tin, left over from ww1 that had king George's face on it. It was very comfortable. I even had two matches
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Spiritual-Oven-9936@reddit

Two matches..? Unless they were already burnt out you were living the life of Riley Besides.. that thar tin is probably worth a pretty penny nowadays
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MattheqAC@reddit

We were evicted from our tin
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NeitherAmoeba5092@reddit

Luxury. When I were a lad, we had a folded up sheet of newspaper, and we had to count ourselves lucky.
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WaltTFB@reddit

You try and tell that to young Redditors today...they won't believe you.
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LocationOk3698@reddit

ÂŁ1500/month ten years ago!
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Top5CutestPresidents@reddit

Per person, in a 3 person bed-share
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Hairy_Fee_6750@reddit

Alabamian here, I approve this motive, Roll Tide.
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nick1881@reddit

Are you my friend Endri?
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Hairy_Fee_6750@reddit

No sorry mate, George & Bernice đŸŒ»
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nick1881@reddit

Ah nevermind. He was also living in Birmingham, though not long moved to London. Everyone needs a good Albanian friend.
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Hairy_Fee_6750@reddit

True. Although we are from Alabama. Crimson Tide Football Team 🏈
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LifetimeNannyHere@reddit

Hahahahaha!
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Goaduk@reddit

I saw a 'homes under the hammer' where mr Singh, a father of 3 bought 7 of these traps to rent out to northerners to help his daughters go to uni in York.
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CheeryBottom@reddit

What do they do with stray Lancastrians?
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hyperdistortion@reddit

Trebuchet. Sometimes it overshoots into the Irish Sea. We assume Lancastrians float, but don’t care to find out for ourselves.
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GnaphaliumUliginosum@reddit

Do they weigh the same as a duck?
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nahthenlad@reddit

We release any undersized juvenile cockneys
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Batmanswrath@reddit

I can confirm, this is how they got me. Sneaky Northerners dropped me off at the Watford gap with ÂŁ2 in my pocket.
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behemuffin@reddit

Aye, two quid'll see thee reyt. Tha's ennow fo't'week's rent, an summat extra fer an Eccles cake, a pint'er 'eavy an a good thresh on the whippets, tha moanin southern bastid. 
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Narrow-Heron8488@reddit

And by “Southerner” they also mean anyone from the Midlands!
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Marm8@reddit

Midlands dunt exist, there's North 'n' there's South, nowt else.
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dglp@reddit

That includes Leeds!
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OrganizationOk5418@reddit

In my experience, it will be for anyone not from Yorkshire, they don't like too many things to distract them from arguing with each other.
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soulteepee@reddit

HEY IM FROM AMERICA BUT IM REALLY SCOTTISH BECAUSE MY FORTY-SEVENTH GRAND COUSIN CAME FROM 
snap
oh woe
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Divide_Rule@reddit

Some of us southerners go there to enjoy a good trap.
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luckystar2591@reddit

If you zoom in you'll see the coats they use as bait
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bumface1958@reddit

You don't need to trap us we gladly leave. We are only there cause we are lost.
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DocHowling@reddit

I wish you bloody did gladly leave, I work with at least three of you bleeders..told my gaffa he feeds one of you more will show up, but oh nooo he knew best.
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OkRecommendation2452@reddit

We will stop coming up when you stop making dammed good beer and selling it for less than the price of a house! Until then me, my flip flops and fear of strangers saying good morning in the street are on rout :-)
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Dai_Bando@reddit

*en route
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Imperator_Helvetica@reddit

Oh no! I didn't know the Northern line went that far north! What if you arrive, friendly and with news of the world beyond, seducing our pigeons and using slightly different vowel sounds! I must make for my panic ~~room~~ pie and seal myself in with gravy!
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Riddly_Diddly_DumDum@reddit

Wouldn’t stop me and my submersibles getting that sweet tea back down here.
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idddisw@reddit

It's happened to me twice and I keep coming back
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AfterCook780@reddit

The famous Northern friendliness finally proven to be a lie.
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Old-Law-7395@reddit

Mountain rescue normally do that for us in Cumbria
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AfterCook780@reddit

For catching the wild Yorkshire Puddings.
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Mumlife8628@reddit

Mmmmmm
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banjonose@reddit

Those are fen traps, probably being used to illegally persecute mustelids. The dales are in huge part grouse moors and an absolute wildlife desert because of this shit. Smash them on sight
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inevitablelizard@reddit

DOC trap, widely used by gamekeepers on grouse moors for killing stoats and weasels, also approved for rat and grey squirrel. The idea is to reduce predation of grouse to maintain high numbers for the shooting season. This trap looks compliant, they're supposed to have entrance restrictions and not be set in the open, to reduce the risk to non target species. There is also a different trap design called Tully which is similar and will be in a similar cage or tunnel. Usually this rail trap setup will be over ditches and streams, to trap stoats and weasels which try to cross. You often see them along the bottom of stone walls too, as the animals don't like to cross open ground for very long. Even see them along the top of stone walls sometimes.
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Slartitartfast@reddit

In short, they're used by scumbags to protect the profits of other scumbags who make money from entertaining other scumbags.
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Suitable_Level2499@reddit

Idiot traps
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zwifter11@reddit

They’re to catch wild mountain haggis 
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YouCantGiveBabyBooze@reddit

perspective on that first picture confused me. thought I was looking at huge rocks and hills.
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Quirky-Respond93@reddit

Me too 
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Captain-Codfish@reddit

That's for trapping live ferrets, so they can pop them into their trousers
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romanian1@reddit

Photographer traps. Well it got you didn't it.
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dglp@reddit

Bop the Stoats!
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ormr_inn_langi@reddit

Tourist traps.
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Far-Market-9150@reddit

yorkshire finger traps, theyre kind of like chinese finger traps, but a lot more brutal
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Geraldinemcqu33n@reddit

You put the T in the wrong place. It’s t’yorkshire dales. And when you use the t like that it means you don’t need to you ‘the’
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Independent-Try4352@reddit

At last, someone who actually speaks proper. No bugger in Yorkshire says “The Yorkshire”. Only people who do that are southern comedians, or just dickheads.
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TreadOrDead@reddit

I’ve seen plenty all over the north of England. Never yet left one intact.  And always take a piss in grouse butts. 
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pippysquibbins@reddit

not just me then. They make an ideal toilet.
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PhoneFresh7595@reddit

Rat traps. It also look like there is a rat hole just beside it
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Gildor12@reddit

The mesh is a bit big for a rat more likely to be mink traps
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LaidBackLeopard@reddit

Mink was my thought. Right little buggers for destroying native wildlife. Looks a lot like the traps they use on a nature reserve here in Sussex.
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pippysquibbins@reddit

looks like the traps they use on the grouse moors to trap stoats.
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That_Northern_bloke@reddit

Unlikely to be mink if they're not near water 
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donster222@reddit

It’s a DOC150 trap. Legal for stoats and weasels in the UK. Also mink, grey squirrels and rats. Very specific regulations about how and where to set it up to avoid killing non target species. To be legal, they need to meet certain criteria in terms of the size and height of entry holes as well as the type of enclosure. Any trap that is set must also be checked every 24 hours.
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Sasspishus@reddit

I thought only live capture traps need to be checked every 24 hours?
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pippysquibbins@reddit

snares are supposed to be checked every four hours, but they often aren't.
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donster222@reddit

Legally you might be right. I believe best practice is cited as 24 hours for kill traps too.
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combustioncactus@reddit

I cannot figure out the scale of that picture!
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Long-Ad-6536@reddit

Few of these on the English channel could do good đŸ€”
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ukbot-nicolabot@reddit

A top level comment (one that is not a reply) should be a good faith and genuine attempt to answer the question
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Respond_Sometimes@reddit

Click bait trap?
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Slartitartfast@reddit

Traps, most likely for predators of game animals. It's your civic duty as a normal, non psychopath/hunter to trigger them/stamp on them/destroy them in any way you can.
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contentatlast@reddit

I thought that first picture was of a house built into the mountains for a moment there
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Leroy-Leo@reddit

It’s a haggis trap, stops them spreading south.
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Inner_Relationship28@reddit

Those are a trap from new Zealand called a doc trap and are used for catching rats,stoats weasels and mink.
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LimberGaelic@reddit

Stick to the road
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firthy@reddit

*t’yorkshire
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Boatjumble@reddit

More importantly, did you wipe the traps clean once you were done?
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MrAnderson69uk@reddit

Before reading the OP title statement and question, I had to zoom in to the first picture as initially it looked like some house built on a bridge of concrete or something on a mountain side, taken from the other side of the valley, and those brown moss and ferns looked like old dense fir trees, then I realised it’s just a plank of wood with some small metal cages!!! lol 😂
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GriccoK@reddit (OP)

Thank you everyone for your help on this it was very interesting, me and the mrs have been debating about this for a while. Neither of us expected it to be rats. Also, thanks to the guy for the link.
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paisleydarling@reddit

For Magpies
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PARFT@reddit

Usually only found in scotlandbut am sure they are wild Haggis traps.
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funkball@reddit

Traps.
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That_Northern_bloke@reddit

Maybe grey squirrel, unlikely to be mink if theyre not on a river bank 
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