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Gallows as an effective deterrent??
Hello,
I live on an estate on which the owner's gardener has taken to hanging dead squirrels and magpies in trees and next to the scarecrow in the veg patch. My assumption is that this is to deter other squirrels and magpies, but does that actually work? I can deal with a certain level of morbidity, but I would hate for the children who come visit to be upset at the dead animals if it's a pointless endeavor. And if anything, I would have thought that the carcasses would attract more vermin.. Can anybody share some perspective on this issue? Many thanks! |
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::Update::
Erm, upon investigating the claims of the kids that came running inside crying about a dead magpie hanging in the veg patch, I discovered it to be made of plastic. This particular deterrent seems to have little effect on the two pheasants I startled The question about a gallows of dead squirrels on a tree branch stands though.. |
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Gallows as an effective deterrent??
Mitulove wrote:
Hello, I live on an estate on which the owner's gardener has taken to hanging dead squirrels and magpies in trees and next to the scarecrow in the veg patch. My assumption is that this is to deter other squirrels and magpies, but does that actually work? I can deal with a certain level of morbidity, but I would hate for the children who come visit to be upset at the dead animals if it's a pointless endeavor. And if anything, I would have thought that the carcasses would attract more vermin.. Can anybody share some perspective on this issue? Many thanks! The gamekeeper's gibbet is an old old custom. I think it was simply to show the employer that the keeper was earning his pay and his cottage by killing anything non-game that moved. I've no direct knowledge of the practice, but hardly any animals seem to recognize corpses of their own species, so I can't think it would do much in the way of deterrence. So, unless there's a problem with chimpanzees or elephants...but, speaking in a personal capacity, I'd rather not be in the same parish as an elephant with a grievance, so it wouldn't work even with them. -- Mike. |
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Gallows as an effective deterrent??
"Mike Lyle" wrote in message ... Mitulove wrote: Hello, I live on an estate on which the owner's gardener has taken to hanging dead squirrels and magpies in trees and next to the scarecrow in the veg patch. My assumption is that this is to deter other squirrels and magpies, but does that actually work? I can deal with a certain level of morbidity, but I would hate for the children who come visit to be upset at the dead animals if it's a pointless endeavor. And if anything, I would have thought that the carcasses would attract more vermin.. Can anybody share some perspective on this issue? Many thanks! The gamekeeper's gibbet is an old old custom. I think it was simply to show the employer that the keeper was earning his pay and his cottage by killing anything non-game that moved. I've no direct knowledge of the practice, but hardly any animals seem to recognize corpses of their own species, so I can't think it would do much in the way of deterrence. So, unless there's a problem with chimpanzees or elephants...but, speaking in a personal capacity, I'd rather not be in the same parish as an elephant with a grievance, so it wouldn't work even with them. -- Mike. The 'gamekeeper's gibbet' is something I have only seen once in my life and never expect to see again. The 'game' in my case was moles. Obviously a string of dead moles on a barbed wire fence is not likely to be a deterrent to other moles! R. |
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Gallows as an effective deterrent??
In article , Ragnar
writes The 'gamekeeper's gibbet' is something I have only seen once in my life and never expect to see again. The 'game' in my case was moles. Obviously a string of dead moles on a barbed wire fence is not likely to be a deterrent to other moles! R. Not unless they were the Russian kind as currently in the papers! -- Janet Tweedy Dalmatian Telegraph http://www.lancedal.demon.co.uk |
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Gallows as an effective deterrent??
On Jul 2, 2:32*pm, Janet Baraclough
wrote: The message from "Ragnar" contains these words: The 'gamekeeper's gibbet' is something I have only seen once in my life and never expect to see again. The 'game' in my case was moles. Obviously a string of dead moles on a barbed wire fence is not likely to be a deterrent to other moles! * * Our molecatcher did that up until 10 years ago. He regarded it as professional *advertising, and *proof he *wasn't *touting *the same dead moles round successive clients. * * Janet. The sort of repulsive custom known and expected of a certain type of gamekeeper by a certain kind of landowner. Absolutely out of order and pointless for a 'gardener' Magpies do no harm whatsoever in a garden (might just strip the odd pod of peas as a jay will) Killing squirrels is pointless anyway, there's plenty more where they came from so just protect your soft fruit by caging the bed, that means wire netting for squirrels - they'll destroy anything else if there's cherries or strawberries the other side. Rod |
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Gallows as an effective deterrent??
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, Rod writes Magpies do no harm whatsoever in a garden Oh yes they do they steal little bird's eggs . Lots of magpies here but fewer and fewer little birds, ..... -- Janet Tweedy Dalmatian Telegraph http://www.lancedal.demon.co.uk |
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Gallows as an effective deterrent??
On Thu, 1 Jul 2010 15:52:29 +0000, Mitulove
wrote: Hello, I live on an estate on which the owner's gardener has taken to hanging dead squirrels and magpies in trees and next to the scarecrow in the veg patch. My assumption is that this is to deter other squirrels and magpies, but does that actually work? I can deal with a certain level of morbidity, but I would hate for the children who come visit to be upset at the dead animals if it's a pointless endeavor. And if anything, I would have thought that the carcasses would attract more vermin.. Can anybody share some perspective on this issue? Many thanks! I'd have thought the magpies would have considered it breakfast. -- http://www.bra-and-pants.com http://www.holidayunder100.co.uk |
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