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Posted: **Fri Mar 24, 2006 12:53 pm**

I used to live in the sticks. Vermin I hate: 
 
Foxes. I've seen shredded lamb, hobbled sheep, cleared up countless duck splats (looks like an ovesized paintball splat from a distance but is in fact just feathers) and worst of all disposed of 11 carcasses of chickens in one go. We had 12 but foxes commonly annihilate everything moving and just take away the one they need for food. My dad still trys to keep chickens and buys a half dozen every so often, last lot didn't live long enough to start laying. His compound has 6 foot fences on 2 sides and a 4 ft fence with an electric top wire on the third (triangular paddock) all fences go into the ground. Foxes are the only creatures apart from man that get blood lust. Go get 'em m' lud I say! 
 
Crows. Every spring for years we'd have ducklings on the pond. Then one year they started dissappearing, only a few got beyond the little fluffy ball stage. Next year we lost the lot. Third year it became obvious when the crows moved in to nearby trees. Confirmed when I watched one carry a poor little chick crying its head off away. Air rifle aquired, crow family found the tables turned. 
 
Rats. Lost a helluva lot of ducks to these bastards too. Spent ages searching for rats when the crows were a problem. Ho hum. Hate the things. Horrible filthy smelly disgusting. 
 
Squirrels I don't hate, never had reason to. I'd happily shoot them if I were anywhere near those few areas where our native squirrels live. I've just realised - it's perfectly legal in the UK to shoot an American! 
 
Mice. Don't hate 'em. When I lived in the sticks we had 2 cats and never once had mice despite it being a 14c timber framed house with about a thousand ways in. Where we live now we've had visitors twice and they've been moved on easily. 
 
Tinweevil

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39 anorak points on the Nicholas scale 
Edited by: <A HREF=http://p206.ezboard.com/bthetriumphdolo ... nweevil</A> at: 24/3/06 12:54 pm

Posted: **Fri Mar 24, 2006 1:17 pm**

Passive aggressive? 
 
Psychotic! Haha. Only joking. 
 
Personally, I'd shoot them just as a bit of justice for the native red squirrels. Or get a greyhound. Ours loved chasing squirrels. Needless to say they voted with their little vermine feet to stay away from our garden.

Posted: **Fri Mar 24, 2006 3:07 pm**

Living fairly close to lots of forest/woodland we get a fair few mice, thankfully our cat is pretty good at keeping them under control, she does however only eat the head, the rest gets left for me to clear up, she also sorted out the pigeon problem last year single handedly, she tried to bring the first one in through the cat flap, didn`t fit but she had a bloody good go. Like you Julian I hate foxes, we had a couple in our garden recently which had got to my next door neighbours chickens and also another neighbours racing pigeons, each time none were taken, just needlessly killed, evil. We got my girlfriends dad round one evening and he shot them.

Posted: **Fri Mar 24, 2006 3:47 pm**

evolutionary crap you are spouting Susie? 
 
As I read the good book its a day at most.... 
 
Foxes....well I stringly suspect that out pet rabbits went that way...they are missing in action. 
An adaptive creature thats too good at adapting for its own good. It has no place in an urban environment. 
I'm not sure about the cat eather come to that. Or magpies...small birds seem to be suffering cos of them round my way. 
 
Jonners

Posted: **Fri Mar 24, 2006 10:03 pm**

Lets play nicely! 
 
Sorry Susie but since you said you have 5 cats I have visions of you being some sort of catwoman! 
 
This is probably completely out of order but I've got 2 images that spring to mind. 
 
Only question is, are you.... 
 
<img src="http://www.comicbookhotties.com/images/ ... fer-17.jpg" style="border:0;"/> 
 
or ....... 
 
<img src="http://myspace-151.vo.llnwd.net/00369/1 ... 8151_m.gif" style="border:0;"/> 
 
 
<img src=http://www.ezboard.com/intl/aenglish/im ... s/wink.gif ALT=";)"> <img src=http://www.ezboard.com/intl/aenglish/im ... /laugh.gif ALT=":lol">

Posted: **Fri Mar 24, 2006 10:56 pm**

Well, I don't usually dress in a black pvc all-in-one during the daytime! Should Mr Nicholas buy me said outfit though (perhaps in Brooklands green to match my 1850HL?), I would of course be obliged to wear it! <img src=http://www.ezboard.com/intl/aenglish/im ... s/wink.gif ALT=";)"> 
 
I would never purposely harm any creature. It saddens me as much to read of the poor little ducklings being carted off by the crows as it does the mice being lured to their death. I like all creatures and I have been fortunate enough to handle a snake and a red-kneed spider. Tarantulas actually feel like velvet and did you know that if you drop one it shatters? (Cool that you used to have a Boa Scott, we are talking a snake and not a feather one aren't we?)<img src=http://www.ezboard.com/intl/aenglish/im ... /laugh.gif ALT=":lol"> 
 
As for Mr Tilson's comments, as an educated man Jon, you will of course be aware that the Hebrew word for 'day' does not mean 24 hours as it does today; and that animals have souls? God put creatures on this earth for a reason and I don't think it was so that we could take pot shots at them! If only the ancients had all stuck to Manna. <sigh> 
 
Scott, psychotic? Moi? No unfair guessing now!<img src=http://www.ezboard.com/intl/aenglish/im ... s/roll.gif ALT=":rollin"> 
 
Susie 
 
<blockquote>Quote:<hr>Women and cats do what they like, men and dogs have to get used to it!<hr></blockquote>

Posted: **Sat Mar 25, 2006 12:59 am**

Over the years we have had a red tailed Boa from a hatchling, two Australian bearded dragons, a panther chameleon (my favourite), a leopord gecko, a corn snake and a pink toed tarantula, oh and a green tree frog. 
 
Now all we have are two rabbits, a cat and a horse. Reptiles are suprisingly good pets although some are pretty tricky to look after. Snakes are the easiest of the lot. OUr corn snake escaped once. We found it 7 months later living under the next door neigbours shed. It had survived through winter under there!

Posted: **Sat Mar 25, 2006 1:38 am**

<blockquote>Quote:<hr>Over the years we have had a red tailed Boa from a hatchling, two Australian bearded dragons, a panther chameleon (my favourite), a leopord gecko, a corn snake and a pink toed tarantula, oh and a green tree frog.<hr></blockquote> 
 
<img src=http://www.ezboard.com/intl/aenglish/im ... smokin.gif ALT=":smokin">

Martin 
 
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Posted: **Sat Mar 25, 2006 1:43 am**

I've had 2 hamsters and a Budgie that could out swear chubby brown <img src=http://www.ezboard.com/intl/aenglish/im ... s/roll.gif ALT=":rollin">

Posted: **Sat Mar 25, 2006 1:56 am**

Susie this isn't the place to debate the finer points of the theology of animals... 
There are far too many unenlightened spectators. 
I'll just postulate that my antipathy to squirrels and that of others to foxes, mice and crows is just one more example of how the whole world isnt really working the way it was meant to.... 
 
Jonners

Posted: **Sat Mar 25, 2006 9:38 am**

Stop hijacking my thread about a vermin problem!! Maybe your on the wrong forum Jonners if there are too many 'unenlightened spectactors' here who aren't on your superior intellectual level<img src=http://www.ezboard.com/intl/aenglish/im ... s/wink.gif ALT=";)"> 
 
Back to the plot, Good News! no mice in the traps this morning, fingers crossed they've found somewhere else to live. It was much nicer not having to dispose of them this morning. 
 
I'm going to stock up on expanding foam and go around the house later to hopefully stop any more of the furry critters getting in. What worries me is we also have squirrels and probably rats lurking in the old MOD storage sheds that my house backs onto and they can cause a lot more damage than mice if they get in.

Posted: **Sat Mar 25, 2006 3:01 pm**

Won't mice eat there way through foam?

Posted: **Sat Mar 25, 2006 3:10 pm**

Yes, but by the time they have, they are so fat they can't get through the hole.

Posted: **Sat Mar 25, 2006 3:36 pm**

they dont need much of a hole !! 
if you can get your finger in it they can get in

Posted: **Sat Mar 25, 2006 6:45 pm**

I had a Dad that could easily outswear Chubby Brown - ex RSM, say no more<img src=http://www.ezboard.com/intl/aenglish/im ... /smile.gif ALT=":)"> 
 
Thanks Susie, I will be forever tormented with the rather clear mental image of a flippin great hairy spider shattering like a glass when dropped on the floor. It's amazing what you learn on this forum<img src=http://www.ezboard.com/intl/aenglish/im ... ns/eek.gif ALT=":eek"> 
 
Didn't Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall get a new age person to persuade his dorset mice to vacate? Seemed to work, or maybe they were very freaked out by the whole human/mouse love and understanding thing. I am. Mice here would just stick two digits up at her and laugh openly. 
 
Terrier for rent if needed,very cheap rates - Tesco cat food, maltesers and Milky Way on a Sunday. Best mouser ever (even if she is a 15 year old). What's that in dog years? 
 
Bloody good traps you've got given the results. Probably a combination of good trap, great bait and really depressed and suicidal mice, with a low IQ. No good here because our stupid kitten would probably lose a paw or nose, or both. Our older cat is no good for demousing, as chasing a mere mouse is WAY too undignified, and it would also eat into the extensive amounts of sleep that she requires. 
 
Squirrells - no active like or dislike, wouldn't mind a taste of pie though. Rats - yeuch, especially the scaly tail bit and the fact that they pee whilst walking. However, I can relate the the last bit, especially whilst stuck in a drafty garage with no heating or toilet facilities<img src=http://www.ezboard.com/intl/aenglish/im ... ohwell.gif ALT=":"> 
 
Loads of streetwise urban foxes here in Norf London. They spend most of the time destroying our fully laden rubbish bags and mixing up the contents from the recycling bin and the non-recycling bin. Not content with pissing the council off by ruining the recycling quota they then crap all over the bags. Anarchic foxes? Oh yes indeed. They are getting more in your face with each passing day. They're gonna start wearing hoodies over the coming months in a vain attempt to be asbo'd and gain even more street cred amongst their attitude laden fox mates. 
 
Fox cubs are quite cute though. Not in any kind of sexual way but in the soft and furry way. I'm stopping this one right here, ok! 
 
Sorry for rambling but I've been outside for a very long time today derusting the 1300 Dolly and the deruster fumes may be affecting me in a strange and unusual way. Then again, they may not be<img src=http://www.ezboard.com/intl/aenglish/im ... /happy.gif ALT=":D"> 
 
Ken

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