"Christina Websell" wrote in message
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"Malcolm" wrote in message
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Tina is clearly one of those who have divided wildlife up into "good"
and "bad". This is a not uncommon stance, but one which is actually
quite hard to defend, as she has found. She now says that she is
stopping feeding the small birds, yet obviously did this for the best of
reasons, improving their survival chances throught the winter and
setting them up for successful breeding in the next season. This good
work has now been abandoned all because another species of birds comes
to her bird table and kills a few of them.

Now that we've got on to the mole, there's a very easy method for her to
get rid of it, adopted by those who look after golf courses and sports
fields. You poison all the nasty slimy worms and the mole, deprived of
its food, goes elsewhere :-)


well, that's not going to happen. I used to poison rats, until I saw one
dying for a few days from it and then killed it myself to prevent further
suffering. which I didn't like to do, so poison is a no no here. After
that I got terriers in. It's much kinder - either the rats get away
unscathed or they don't. If they don't they are dead in a second which is
much better than days of dying of poison, I think you will agree.


Whoosh

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David