It's a problem -- has spread to the deer population in western Virginia (don't know about, and am NOT writing West Virginia) and has put a big damper on already declining deer hunting.
Loads of farmers over here commited suicide after losing specialist herds that had been bred over generations . The whole of south west England was decimated with not an animal to be seen in the fields for a long time after . Some farmers gained millions in compensation and diversified , many of the small farmers and hill farmers got nothing !
Wasn't thinking for one second that you were Clint . To be fair , it was the poor farmers that went thru it . I , along with others was being paid good money to shoot their prize animals .seemed ok til the reality of the horror crept in on just the first day and we did it for weeks on end ! They are currently about to start a badger cull here because of the link to bovine TB . This time I have declined !
Wasn't thinking for one second that you were Clint . To be fair , it was the poor farmers that went thru it . I , along with others was being paid good money to shoot their prize animals .seemed ok til the reality of the horror crept in on just the first day and we did it for weeks on end ! They are currently about to start a badger cull here because of the link to bovine TB . This time I have declined !
I think we have outdone ourselves with off-topic digression and was looking for a darting squirrel to post and found this instead:
Explains a lot of lost dogs
That one I missed. But I did some culling in the New Forest in the early 80s. Magpies here are a PLAGUE - they're protected - I've seen them mob children for the food. 80 magpies at once is just wrong. But sadly, every so often, one drops in front of my practice targets. Local cats deal with it after. The local feral cats - some are as big as Labradors.