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" "Clive in Kent wrote Hi all, Need to get rid of (permanently!) 2 big, fat, greedy wood pigeons and a verminous grey squirrel out of my garden. Thinking about buying an air rifle. Do I need a license for one of these nowadays? Clare replied I think you are the verminous one. How utterly vile. What are the creatures doing to deserve death? What kind of a world do we live in where we blast something we don't like into smithereens? You are the keeper of a small part of this beautiful earth, please treat everything in it with respect. He will probably have the greatest respect as he pulls the trigger. Like the almost reverential respect, even love, shown by carp fisherman to the fish they catch. Personally I don't see the need to shoot the Wood Pigeons nesting in one of our Cordylines or the Grey squirrels that occasionally infest our Bird Table yet our next door neighbour catches them in traps. Some people go mad about other peoples cats in their gardens which again doesn't bother me one bit, Sue even feeds them (as I have just done to the local Hedgehog)! Perhaps if Clive would explain why he dislikes these creature in his garden, to those of us that find his desired actions strange and "over the top", we could understand where he is coming from. O.T. A steam train has just gone past, lovely hissing/clanking sound, the glow of the firebox..... amazing, wonderful, nostalgic. I suppose some people would complain about that too. -- Regards Bob In Runnymede, 17 miles West of London |
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