On 12/5/08 09:28, in article ,
"Mary Fisher" wrote:


"Nick Maclaren" wrote in message
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In article ,
"Mary Fisher" writes:
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| | Of course, the Little Englanders who get paranoid about even the
most
| | harmless creatures (such as vipers and lynx) are beyond hope.
| |
| | Vipers I can understand.
|
| Why? They are less of a risk to humans in the UK than bumblebees
| or mice.
|
| What risks are there from mice???

Try infection :-)

How?

Mice run away from humans, unless they're pets.

They leave urine and faeces everywhere they go. Apparently, mice are
urinating almost constantly.


I suspect more humans acquire infections from dogs and cats than forom any
other fauna.

| And how many times have you been stung by a bumble bee? I'd moved and
kept
| many bombus nests and never been stung.

Several times a year. I tread on them in bare feet - poor things.

You should watch where you're walking. If you tread on them you deserve to
be stung.

I walk about the garden with bare feet and have never been stung.

I have no problems picking them up in my bare hands when they get
trapped indoors, of course.

| It's not the being scared that is the issue, it is the becoming
| paranoid. We desperately need lynx in England to deal with the
| harm caused by uncontrolled deer.
|
| Guns are enough. That way people can enjoy the meat.

You also need people who are capable of stalking them, shooting safely,
willing to put the time in, and allowed to do so. Those used to be
common characteristics, and are now very rare.

Not VERY rare, perhaps more rare.

My game supplier always has lots of venison.


Probably from farmed herds, which is very different to the essential culling
of wild deer in the e.g. Scottish Highlands.

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Sacha
http://www.hillhousenursery.co.uk
South Devon
'We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our
children.'