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28-10-2008, 09:19 PM
Originally Posted by Helena54 View Post
You only have to look at our grey squirrells to know what a great job we do when WE interfere Leave things alone imo!

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Would just pick you up on this point the red squirrel is declining in the UK due to many reason and certainly not just down to the grey. One of the main reasons is the loss of its favoured habitats - oh that will be due to humans.

Humans have been cutting down mixed woodland for years 50% of it since the 1940's, being replaced by deciduos forest which suits the grey not the red so unless there is a suitable habitat culling will have very little effect apart from getting rid of squirrels altogther, mind you I think some people would be happy with that just like they would be with no foxes or badgers.
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28-10-2008, 09:37 PM
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Talking to local farmers the controlling the fox population argument is rubbish, they reckon they have had more foxes killed by traffic or natural causes than were killed by the hunt, and because of this they haven't missed it now it's gone, quite a few had court orders banning the hunt from their land anyway, they say they caused more damage than the fox.

Ermm , why does the land owner need to get a court order to stop the hunt hunting on their land..

Hunts dont have rights to trespass.they are invited onto land...


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So foxes have a sense of humour now?
Well they certainly enjoy the killing spree they go on...and I have seen some with a wicked sense of humor... like the b**ger who sits annoying the neighborhood at 2 am in the morning , calling to his mates


Foxes do not kill for fun they kill what they can when they can [/B]- if food is in abundance they will kill to cache the food, they also have very good memories, for when they come on harder times.
Exactly, they kill because they can, and not just to satisfy hunger.... they enjoy it..... Fun!!!!!!!


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[Amazes me we can put a man on the moon but not lock up our chickens safe.
Now there's food for thought ..did we put a man on the moon???? depends on what you read and who you believe on that one.

And believe me, a canny fox can get to Fort Knox if he has a mind too.
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28-10-2008, 09:55 PM
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Would just pick you up on this point the red squirrel is declining in the UK due to many reason and certainly not just down to the grey. One of the main reasons is the loss of its favoured habitats - oh that will be due to humans.

Humans have been cutting down mixed woodland for years 50% of it since the 1940's, being replaced by deciduos forest which suits the grey not the red so unless there is a suitable habitat culling will have very little effect apart from getting rid of squirrels altogther, mind you I think some people would be happy with that just like they would be with no foxes or badgers.
The grey squirrels are a very big reason the red is in decline. They carry diseases which the reds have no resistance to and they take over their areas.


On the issue of hunting with dogs. I have to say, since the hunting ban came into force I am more aware of it going on locally. People take their dogs into our local woods and hunt with them for foxes. I wasn't aware of that happening before, but perhaps it did, it probably did I was just blissfully ignorant.
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28-10-2008, 09:59 PM
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I don't support the mass culling of squirrels , they are here , they were brought here by British people , they didn't ask to come here and now we have to accept they are here to stay
Its a fact of life in the country , that some culling needs to go on...be it from rabbit to deer... it is called land management! it has to be done, for the well being of the species involved.. yes we brought them here, at the expense of our own Reds.... do we jus tallow those to die out!!

Where I walk my dogs, there is a heard of deer, for the acreage they live on, they can become overpopulated, for the heard to survive they need to have there numbers kept in check.... a while back in the year. they did a cull..... dont know how many they killed but they will have done a natural selection...the old, weak, and young males...

The heard is thriving again.... they are a pleasure to watch... but if we took the "leave them be" attitude they would suffer badly through the winter, loosing far to many to starvation , and road kills..as they will have to come down to forage for food, in populated areas.... as it is now..you dont see many , they are high up in thew woods, do and living they way they should.....
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28-10-2008, 09:59 PM
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Ermm , why does the land owner need to get a court order to stop the hunt hunting on their land..

Hunts dont have rights to trespass.they are invited onto land...
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Because some of the farmer i have spoken to after many requests for the hunt to keep off their land have still caught them charging across in the heat of the hunt, apparently the fox or the pursuing hounds very rarely stop to check whose land they happen to be on at any given moment.
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28-10-2008, 10:04 PM
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Well they certainly enjoy the killing spree they go on...and I have seen some with a wicked sense of humor... like the b**ger who sits annoying the neighborhood at 2 am in the morning , calling to his mates .
and cats do the same thing are you suggesting we get rid of them off the face of the planet too?

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Exactly, they kill because they can, and not just to satisfy hunger.... they enjoy it..... Fun!!!!!!!.
No if you read what I said they kill when food is in abundance to store it for when times are hard, much like squirrels do, much like cheetahs do they do not have a sense of fun but a sense of survival


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Now there's food for thought ..did we put a man on the moon???? depends on what you read and who you believe on that one.
You are so right on that one and heres the proof for you.

http://www.stuffucanuse.com/fake_moo...n_landings.htm
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28-10-2008, 10:08 PM
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Because some of the farmer i have spoken to after many requests for the hunt to keep off their land have still caught them charging across in the heat of the hunt, apparently the fox or the pursuing hounds very rarely stop to check whose land they happen to be on at any given moment.
it is very unusual for a hunt to disrespect landowner wishes , if they dont want them on their land.... the hunt servants work tiredlessly to maintain a good relationship with the local landowners... and I know from our hunt, if they are not wanted they dont go on..

Yes sometimes you cant stop the pack following a scent onto land that is not available for them... but someone will have to go and retreave said animals.... in my experience it will be either of the hunt servants... the field will be asked to remain off the land..
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28-10-2008, 10:15 PM
Originally Posted by spot View Post
Would just pick you up on this point the red squirrel is declining in the UK due to many reason and certainly not just down to the grey. One of the main reasons is the loss of its favoured habitats - oh that will be due to humans.

Humans have been cutting down mixed woodland for years 50% of it since the 1940's, being replaced by deciduos forest which suits the grey not the red so unless there is a suitable habitat culling will have very little effect apart from getting rid of squirrels altogther, mind you I think some people would be happy with that just like they would be with no foxes or badgers.
The biggest threat and current reason for the Red Squirrel decline is the Grey Squirrel.

Dramatic decline
Our once common native red squirrel (Sciurus vulgaris) has suffered a dramatic population decline in the last century, resulting in local extinctions throughout much of south England, Northern Ireland and Wales and is included as a priority species in the UK government 's conservation initiative, the UK Biodiversity Action Plan.

In the past, habitat loss and fragmentation contributed to the red squirrel population declines. However, the current threats to the red squirrels' continued survival are thought to be the sustained expansion of populations of the introduced grey squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis) and with them the potential of squirrel poxvirus transmission.
http://www.snh.org.uk/ukredsquirrelgroup/
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28-10-2008, 10:16 PM
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and cats do the same thing are you suggesting we get rid of them off the face of the planet too?
who said wipe them off the face of the earth? they are too good at surviving to do that...

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No if you read what I said they kill when food is in abundance to store it for when times are hard, much like squirrels do, much like cheetahs do they do not have a sense of fun but a sense of survival
Prey tell where they store all this food they have killed for when times are hard????

Oh I know, leave a few chicken heads in the coup, the odd leg ot two in the field. Yes thats a good way to stock up for hard times.



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You are so right on that one and heres the proof for you.

http://www.stuffucanuse.com/fake_moo...n_landings.htm

And doesn`t it make good reading too!!
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28-10-2008, 10:21 PM
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Because some of the farmer i have spoken to after many requests for the hunt to keep off their land have still caught them charging across in the heat of the hunt, apparently the fox or the pursuing hounds very rarely stop to check whose land they happen to be on at any given moment.
I assume the farmers have taken the appropriate court action against tresspass and deliberate damage to land?
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