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Janet Baraclough wrote:
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from (Nick Maclaren) contains these words:

Apparently it does work, at least fairly often.

How do you know?

Well, I am trusting that at least some of the people who have claimed
that it did are telling the truth. Naive, I know, but ....

Keeping a lion might well have the desired effect, but recent nanny
legislation means that you can't just buy them in your local pet shop
and install them in your back garden. I can't think why not.

If it did work, one would expect that where the dumped panthers/
cougars have established themselves (Bodmin moor, parts of the
Highlands), it would be very hard to persuade a domestic pet cat to
leave the house, let alone crap in the garden.. AFAIK, this is not the
case.

Indeed, I believe that it is not the case that such animals have
established themselves anywhere in the UK.

Now, if you have definite evidence to the contrary ....


Regards,