06-11-2014 6:40 PM
06-11-2014 7:46 PM
People Kill cows ( beef) to feed to Dogs
People Kill Chickens to feed to Cats
People Kill Fish to use as bait to catch bigger Fish
People Feed Birds to other Birds
People Kill Buzzards so they can Kill Pheasants
People ( French ) ride Horses, keep them as Pets and eat them
Don't ask me what the Hell's going on, I sometimes wonder if I'm the only thing alive that isn't a Cannibal. Oh and notice the common denominator above........"People".........figures doesn't it !!
06-11-2014 8:03 PM
In the wild:-
Lions kill cows (Wildebeest) to live.
Dogs kill Cows (Wildebeest) to live.
Cats kill birds to live.
Big fish eat little fish to live.
Given half a chance, they'll all eat people to live.
As to the Birds of Prey being killed by the Gamekeeper, there has to be a balance between some Birds of Prey and their prey species. Too many B of P and smaller birds will decline.
There's a difference between "control" and complete extermination of B of P and poisoning like that should have resulted in a harsher sentence.
It's life Jim, but not as WE know it.
Live long and prosper.
06-11-2014 8:07 PM
Given half a chance, they'll all eat people to live.
I knew there was a reason why People invented "Guns"..........It just slipped my mind, until you reminded me.
06-11-2014 8:12 PM
06-11-2014 8:14 PM
06-11-2014 8:24 PM
Naturally his boss knew nothing about this:
"There is no evidence that the owner of the prestigious Stody Estate, Charles MacNicol, knew about the poisonings. He wouldn't tell BBC News whether he knew, or whether he condemned the killings"
Of course those Do-Gooders had to stick their oar in:
."The RSPB is also calling for the Stody Estate to be stripped of government grants it has received for promoting wildlife"
Something tells me he'll sit up and take notice now
Maybe we should go with the Scottish system - the landowner is also responsible for the actions of their staff ,since this was enacted there had been a drop in poisoning incidents
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-29931463
06-11-2014 8:32 PM
06-11-2014 9:02 PM
06-11-2014 9:40 PM
As to the Birds of Prey being killed by the Gamekeeper, there has to be a balance between some Birds of Prey and their prey species. Too many B of P and smaller birds will decline.
And if the small birds decline there will be less for predators to catch which is how the balance is maintained, given there are no outside influences which upset the balance.
The number of creatures in the wild, as indeed was man in the past, are always subject to available food supply.
Unfortunately there are still some keepers who regard all predators as needing to be killed regardless whether or not they are proected or have a significant effect on their birds.
07-11-2014 1:25 PM
There is no excuse for what he did. Though the Tally Ho types might agree.
Seeing footage of fluffy day-old chicks tottering on a belt as they experience the miracle of life for the first time, blinking under the light as they try and make sense of their strange new world, then being grabbed by a gloved hand and thrown down a chute into a blender. Yes...where was God?
Where was God when tigers were killed by a red hot poker in their back passage to avoid spoiling the skin? In fact where was he ever?
People pretend to be precious about their health but will happily eat at McDonalds. But no one gives a cr-p about the misery and suffering of animals used in production as long as it's out of sight.
There never was need for such horrific abuse to any animal. But an awful lot of human's are like that aren't they.
They will be hoping that saying ''What go's around comes around'' is not true. I think it is.
07-11-2014 2:04 PM
Hunting mink with two or more dogs is illegal - laying down poison is in most cases illegal apart from the danger to other wildlife - trapping can injure as well as being non-discriminatory by nature.
Mink are a predator but just because they wipe out another species in the area, (e.g. water vole), doesn't mean their numbers decrease - they move onto the next one, water fowl, pheasants, wild birds, squirrels even domestic animals. They are a far bigger pest in this area than rats and cause far more damage.
Prior to the hunting ban the local farmers had got them pretty much under control now they are once again rampant. What do those who say all animals should be protected from the human species suggest should happen?
07-11-2014 3:39 PM
Before the ban they did have mink hounds on a river I fish though it seemed to me only the huntmaster took it seriously, the followers appeared just to be enjoying a ramble and the dogs having the time of their lives romping in and out of the river.
The bailiff has gone along with his gun but he admitted he had little chance, whenever I've seen one it's only been for a few seconds, you get a better look at otters.
My personal view is that you don't get rid of natural predators (mink are not natural), you improve the evironment for the prey species to enable them to thrive.
07-11-2014 3:56 PM
07-11-2014 4:21 PM
07-11-2014 4:38 PM
Mink are easy to trap as they are extremely inquisitive - the problem is that if you use a humane trap you then have a mink to cope with!
It is illegal to release it and illegal to keep it alive yet the only legal way to kill it is with a gun which means that on farms the farmer, (the only one likely to have a gun), has to personally go round the traps and can't delegate the work to a farmhand.
If you use a 'killing' trap then you can end up killing other wild mammals.
07-11-2014 5:08 PM
07-11-2014 5:41 PM
A spokesman said: "The RSPCA is as a general principle against the culling of wild animals, but accepts that in the case of some mink eradication projects there may be strong scientific grounds to support one.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-12323300
07-11-2014 5:42 PM
RSPCA......................"Cruelty" being the operative word in that title.
07-11-2014 7:32 PM
How about this for a change then?:-
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-29951094
It's life Jim, but not as WE know it.
Live long and prosper.