Who the hell is shooting our swans?

CanberraCreative said :

This past dew weeks, we’ve had shootings, arsons attacks and robberies a plenty. Every single night for two weeks, sirens have been heard in the Lanyon Valley, often more than once a night. What’s going on?

Over-exaggerate much?

Living in ‘the Lanyon Valley’ myself I can honestly say I have heard a siren once in the last 2 years!

As for the Swan, yeah that’s bad form shooting one of them, same goes for Pelicans. When I was duck hunting you would often see them getting shot and it was always the greeks and italians responsible and they would cook them up!

Most likely some young punk with an air-rifle so you can dismiss all thoughts of armed maniacs wandering the parks preying on wildlife, true you could lose an eye to one but biggest risks is getting a nasty welt but as they are single shot you’ll have time to grab the rifle off the grub and place it in his bum!

Awful. Canberra is like a war-zone at the moment. I’m all for target shooters but we can’t have so many people running around the streets and lakesides with guns- and firing them? At eachother, at wild-life…

Victoria would have had an awful death. 🙁

How’s shooting the offender going to help the RSPCA? Trainee vets should be allowed to practice surgery on the offender so they can iron out mistakes before they have to do it ‘for real’ with an animal. Any animal would appreciate a vet who has, say, spayed and neutered at least once before, for example.

swans are protected by some special royal law here in the UK.

This past dew weeks, we’ve had shootings, arsons attacks and robberies a plenty. Every single night for two weeks, sirens have been heard in the Lanyon Valley, often more than once a night. What’s going on?

bd84 said :

I vote we shoot the offender if they are caught.

And then afterwards we should set a dog on them.

I think it is disgusting how a beautiful swan is target pratice for some idiot getting his jollies, what a sicko!

I vote we shoot the offender if they are caught.

FIVE surgeries on a swan. Wow.

I’ve always wondered whether swan tastes any good. By way of analogy with ducks, I’ve always had high hopes, but I suspect in reality it’d be pretty gamey.

I love the swans on our lakes – they bring a grace and serenity that’s quite the opposite of, say, some dickhead wandering around with a gun.

The RSPCA and Victoria deserve a better end to their story.