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Miss Chicken

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HUNGRY native animals caught munching floral memorials at two Tasmanian cemeteries are being shot with government approval.
Funeral director Millingtons has permits to shoot brushtail possums, pademelons and Bennetts wallabies at its Kingston and Cornelian Bay cemeteries.
Since receiving the permits from the Department of Primary Industries, Parks, Water and Environment in 2009, 45 pademelons and 34 Bennetts wallabies have been killed at the cemeteries.
The Against Animal Cruelty Tasmania group is gearing up to protest against a five-hour spotlight cull scheduled to take place at the Kingston cemetery tomorrow from 8pm.
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If I am buried in either of these two cemeteries the wildlife are welcome to come and eat any flowers people leave for me. It isn't as if I need flowers once I am dead. It is stupid to shoot these beautiful creatures because they are eating flowers that will wilt in a couple of days. I have relatives buried at Cornelian Bay and I am not upset at the prospect of flowers I leave for them being eaten.

It seems, from the comments on the website that many people agree with me.
 
As far as caring about animals goes, I'm not an animal lover, but this is ridiculous to me. Honouring the dead doesn't justify killing animals. Work harder to prevent them getting in, but killing them is an extreme measure for something so (imo) minor.
 
Yes. Kill the animals that dare to inturrupt the actions of people that can have no influence on the people they are mourning.
 
I reckon the best 'burial' I could ever have would be for my body to be left in the bush so that the Tasmanian Devils, forest ravens and wedgetail eagles could eat me. That would be so cool.
 
Why don't they just put up fencing? Then they don't have to kill anything. In the UK some hares and roe deer have taken to living in cemeteries because there's a constant supply of food and they are left in peace. Although they are both game animals, because these cemeteries are in cities, they enjoy the protection of being exotic.
 
You put a mild current through a fence and I guarantee a brushtail possum will not be interested no siree bub.
 
When I die, I want to donate any and all organs that can be used to help others (I mean, I don't need them anymore!) and the rest of me donated to science.

I'd be absolutely thrilled to know that my death will result in helping people and increasing knowledge.
 
There is probably some council bylaws against mild currents.

Also they will just leap from trees over the fence. The little fuckers have infested my house. They get in through the fireplace--now unusably blocked off. They get in through the ducted heating vents by pushing them up--already totally unusable due to possum destruction. They get in through the doors in the summer, they get in through the windows in the summer, they ARE EVERYWHERE. I'm amazed they haven't swum up through the toilet yet.

Keep in mind we are talking about creatures that weigh more than cats.
 
I don't suppose they want to fence because of the size of the cemeteries. I think that it would take about 3km of fencing for Cornelian Bay but Kingston is quite a bit small. However they could just fence off the most recently used areas of Cornelian Bay i.e those areas with graves less than 50 years old and the crematorium memorial gardens. The war graves are already enclosed.

I don't think that fencing would solve the possum problem as they are probably living in trees within the cemetery or even within some of the buildings.

The best way to keep possum out of trees is to wrap aluminium sheeting around the trucks so that the possums can't climb up but I think that would look ugly in a cemetery.
 
I think only people who don't want their flowers eaten should use plastic flowers. I am quite happy to put real flowers on a grave during the day and for an animal to eat them when night comes.
 
I guess it depends on what your reason is for putting flowers on a grave. For some people it's a simple gesture of "I still remember you" or so, for other people it's more like "look at what awesome flowers I left here, be sure to notice how awesome I am for leaving such awesome flowers". And I guess the latter is justifiably annoyed if animals eat his flowers before other people can take note of his awesomeness.
 
I too wouldn't mind if the animals ate the flowers, whether I was the one lying in the ground or setting down the flowers. Why does it matter to me? They are going to wilt on their own anyway and get thrown away, so why not let the animals take care of it? I am trying to think of a good reason that someone would be upset about their flowers being eaten, but I can't find it.
 
Miss Chicken said:
It seems, from the comments on the website that many people agree with me.
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I agree with you too.

If the council don't change their policy, one option is to tell people to not leave flowers at your grave... or you could boycott the cemetary and be buried elsewhere, such as in your garden.
 
Killing animals for eating flowers...:lol:...yes, it sounds ridiculus. Maybe these people haven't stopped to think just how silly it does sound. They see animals in a people place and their first thought seems to be, "ARGH! GET 'EM OUT!! KILL!"
 
This is hideous. Dozens of animals killed for eating flowers? :cardie:

Cemeteries generally try to cultivate a natural, pastoral atmosphere. Having woodland creatures around contributes to that atmosphere. Leave them alone.
 
There has been a reprieve for the animals

A WILDLIFE cull at a southern Tasmanian cemetery tonight has been cancelled after public outcry.
Funeral director Millingtons received unsavoury phone calls and emails yesterday from as far afield as Victoria, after news it had government approval to shoot brushtail possums, pademelons and Bennetts wallabies at two cemeteries.
General manager Scott Cranfield said the five-hour cull, scheduled to begin at 8pm at Kingston Cemetery, had been scrapped and Millingtons planned to meet residents to discuss options.
But he said a means to stop wildlife eating floral memorials was needed because of the grief it caused mourners.
"We have an obligation to ensure gardens are maintained," he said. "For people who select a certain flower or rose on the basis it may be a loved one's favourite, when they find it damaged there is an element of loss again.
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Maybe they just need to somehow have an enclosed container for flowers on the graves of those people whose relatives get upset about flowers being eaten?
 
These are the people that run over animals on the road purposely because they had a bad day. I could care less if some animal is eatting flowers at a grave stone. In fact I have a problem with people stealing bushes and flowers off of someone's grave then put it on their love one's grave.
 
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