Legalities of cutting up dead animals.

[weeminx]

Originally Posted by Crownan

Opinions are not welcome here! (I dont want it getting locked before I find my answers!)

sorry

[spend_day]

Originally Posted by Ozgi

Apparently there is, check out RodneyVets posts on this thread...

Warning graphic fotos of dead and cut up snake for post mortem. Very pic heavy

the only refference to any law i see is to the veterinary surgeons act which i know next to nothing about but I assume it must only cover very specific circumstances

[Ozgi]

Originally Posted by spend_day

the only refference to any law i see is to the veterinary surgeons act which i know next to nothing about but I assume it must only cover very specific circumstances

Yeh, in short it's a very obscure law which will never be enforced, lol.

[wozza_t]

but don't kids still dissect animals in school, i did but that was a few years ago now

And what about fishermen who cut up bait???

[gtm]

Originally Posted by spend_day

the only refference to any law i see is to the veterinary surgeons act which i know next to nothing about but I assume it must only cover very specific circumstances

You can cut your own animals without falling foul of the Veterinary Surgeons Act. Problems can arise if you cut up other people animals & attempt to diagnose / treat - you're breaking the law.

[t-bo]

Originally Posted by gtm

You can cut your own animals without falling foul of the Veterinary Surgeons Act. Problems can arise if you cut up other people animals & attempt to diagnose / treat - you're breaking the law.

I thought it must have been something like that, it didnt make sense to me otherwise.

On a side note, I wonder if the people who were so outraged before will have a change of heart if she sucsessfuly incubates the eggs.

[kettykev]

well that was a waste of 2 pages.Personally I don't see the problem with what he/she did, well done for potentialy saving the eggs. So what, if a bread knife was used, do you expect there to be a collection of clamps,scalpels and other veterinary tools in the house. The snake was dead,the eggs removed and an interest shown in what else was there.

[madsmum]

am a bit dumb but can anyone point me in the right direction for the thread with the eggs?

[Tops]

I imagine it would come under some sort of hygeine and sanitation law to prevent spread of disease and such like. Im sure I read something like that somewhere in an article about stuffing animals. Will have a root around the memory bank.

[BecciBoo]

If the animal dies of natural causes or is euthanasia by a licensed veterinary surgeon and the animal belongs to you/you have the owners permision then you are allowed (as far as I know). It only becomes an issue if the animal suffers (under the Animal Welfare Act). It is done for teaching purposes a lot at our place, but the owners have to agree to it on the consent form (an owner has to agree to everything via a consent form, ours includes everything as we are a teaching hospital)