"Nick Maclaren" wrote in message
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| I suspect more humans acquire infections from dogs and cats than forom
any
| other fauna.

In the UK and except for other humans, yes.

Sorry, forgot humans. Perhaps we should exterminate all humans ...

| 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 bumblebees that nest in the lawn, and sometimes visit flowers
that are invisible under the grass. Your eyesight must be very
exceptional - are you, perhaps, allergic to kryptonite? :-)

No - but we don't have grass. The banties have seen to that ... and the
presence of the banties means that I watch where I put my feet :-)

| 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.

I believe that most of the venison eaten (let alone sold) in the UK is
now farmed, and the majority of the rest is from a small number of
large landholdings. Essentially none comes from the roe and muntjac
in the smaller woodlands of the south and midlands, where the problems
are.

I don't buy farmed venison, most of what we buy is red deer, shot in the
wild where, like hare, it does a lot of damage.

We eat a lot of game ...

Mary


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.