Kyneton Cellars
Cat in Macedon Ranges

We are concern about the loss of defenceless australian native wildlife and species extinction caused by imported ferals let loose in the bush - cats and foxes killing birds, reptiles and mammals by the hundreds of millions each year. Check our site to know us better.

Phone or text IT'S A TRAP on 0411 55 644. Has an ongoing commitment to supplying a diverse range of the superior quality products that we can obtain, combined with possible information to assist our customers to humanely manage their feral, pest and invasive animal problems themselves. I asked him if I could sell his traps from my farm. Jack was the rabbit king of Australia for many decades, starting in the rabbit business as a 15 year old in the Vast Depression. Caroline Chisholm was responsible for many remarkable things in Sydney and in Kyneton. There are two stone pilasters at ground glossy on the street side that indicates it was built as a type of shop or commercial fore with business being done through the fore window under the veranda. The larger double brick building on the property (this one has a roof) was built around the 1920's. In former times, this much larger commercial building and yard was a truck shop, a Eyre shop, a hardware store, a tile shop, shed manufacturing and Ogden’s timber yard with two ambitious entrances off Mollison Street that show ravage to the brick entry by drays drawn in by dense horses. The most famous owner, for 35 years, had the whole property including the land of the fresh house at the rear boundary, the blue stone building and the decorative impaired red brick house next door which is currently a solicitors' office. Harry had gangs of men (some tranquil living in Kyneton), numbering around 15 to 20, processing rabbits that were suspended on the long overhead circular chain in this warehouse area. The vogue trap shop in Mollioson Street was the rabbit poolroom and the warehouse area after door was for the processing of rabbits. This animal processing business was one of the largest employers and bigger businesses in Kyneton in its time. Harry's prompt truck would perpetual come around like clockwork to gather these rabbits and pay cash on the knocker to the farmer, or more probable to the farmer's wife and kids, for the new bunnies to bring back here and process them. One of the retired locals came in to the trap shop to say he started his beginning job correct here at the age of 14, helping the men with the processing of rabbits. He died behind 35 years in the rabbit processing and export business. Some of his descendants calm live in the area. He made it seriously unusable, ripped off the entire roof and veranda and gutted it. According to the Kyneton Historical Society records, one valiant councilor stood up and protested this demolition approval saying that this imperative building was portion of Kyneton's blue stone heritage and it must be preserved. Trapping and hunting feral animals and preserving habitat, native birds and animals are not mutually exclusive endeavors. Like many people, I have an interest in kind trapping and without poisons. I also have concerns about the colossal loss of defenseless Australian native wildlife and species extinction caused by imported feral birds and animals let slack in the bush and towns notably cats and foxes mortal native birds, reptiles and little mammals by the many hundreds of millions each year. Farmers can defeat their livelihoods from repeated and unsustainable stock losses to uncivilized dogs and foxes, sometimes 30 and more of lambing losses. Some cultures eat camel meat and horse meat (France), even carp, in countries where these animals are not feral. If you have to take an animal’s life, the ethics of it should be not to waste that life but to utilize all the good, edible meat with nosetotail eating and use the hides. Harry Portelli just did it correct here on these premises after the war years, from our very own buildings, by processing and exporting millions of trapped or shot feral European rabbits at Mollison Street, Kyneton, for 35 years.