Humane dispatches. "Interesting" experiences!

[jb7x57]

Got a phone call from a walker who had found a large injured deer Set off with dispatch pistol and dart gun they had phoned police who said ring council who then told them to ring rspca and they said they don’t do wild animals at weekends told them to google local deer farms or parks so they got my number
On arrival it was a 4 month old fallow buck and his wife was holding it down its lower back leg had been trapped in a fence and was stripped to the bone i sedated it as the crowd was screaming don’t hurt it
it lost it lower 3 inch of back leg but the last 12 months its been at a petting farm and very happy

 

[J@son]

Can I ask how you put yourselves forward so the RSPCA, Police etc are aware that you are willing to come out for HD? I regularly go out to put fallen stock and the odd damaged deer down as a favour to local farmers - just to keep in with them really and thank them for allowing me to shoot over their land. It wouldn’t hurt to get in the Police’s good books too. I’ve got DSC1 and 15+ years with a FAC. Do the police want you to do some sort of formal training around HD?

 

[Alantoo]

The BDS have a HAD course, but it depends where you are as to the Police Requirements..some forces want you to do their own course...you then volunteer and, if accepted, are then put through a second level of vetting by the Police which is renewed every few years.

There is a long established HAD programme where you are in Gloucestershire. I would suggest doing the BDS course which is held at Cirencester Ag. Coll. , and then apply/volunteer to the scheme.

I am aware that not all those who do the course are accepted for the scheme, so it would be worth bearing that in mind.

Alan