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Old 01-05-2007, 09:08 AM posted to uk.rec.gardening
Nick Maclaren Nick Maclaren is offline
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Default Rats in the compost bin


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Sacha writes:
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| | Aren't rats classed as vermin? So do those rules apply? I must make sure
| | the dogs read the books when they're up the nursery, foraging around......
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| You're thinking of the Game Laws. The Anti-hunting law is different.
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| I don't think the dogs are going to read that either, Nick. ;-) To be
| honest, I'm not thinking of either. We don't hunt with the dogs in any
| shape or form. We open the doors in the morning and they go out on their
| own. We don't take them, encourage them, do anything other than open the
| door and get on with whatever needs doing on the nursery. ...

As I understand it, that's not illegal. But taking them round to
someone else's property and siccing them onto rats would be. If
there were three.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.