tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post5599761199903523724..comments2024-03-29T13:05:43.719+00:00Comments on Yorkshire Pudding: CullingYorkshire Puddinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06019673884543913089noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-9393672202861116322013-10-10T11:12:13.078+01:002013-10-10T11:12:13.078+01:00Your possums have greatly affected the prospects o...Your possums have greatly affected the prospects of other creatures and have unbalanced your natural ecology whereas our badgers are a long-established native species - already here when only a few hundred human beings occupied these isles.Yorkshire Puddinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06019673884543913089noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-38953228147163803242013-10-10T11:09:42.172+01:002013-10-10T11:09:42.172+01:00Well Helen, your balanced view is more politic and...Well Helen, your balanced view is more politic and sensible than mine. Mind you, it's hard to compare big strapping kangaroos with small, shy, nocturnal badgers.Yorkshire Puddinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06019673884543913089noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-19218200004445837352013-10-10T11:06:53.689+01:002013-10-10T11:06:53.689+01:00Freedom of information Sol? They still let out wha...Freedom of information Sol? They still let out what they will allow us to know and hide controversy.Yorkshire Puddinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06019673884543913089noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-21313802469772588582013-10-10T11:05:34.517+01:002013-10-10T11:05:34.517+01:00The geese are pressing for widespread culling of g...The geese are pressing for widespread culling of golfers as their fashion sense disrupts natural breeding activity.Yorkshire Puddinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06019673884543913089noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-70555042414893252442013-10-10T11:03:51.912+01:002013-10-10T11:03:51.912+01:00Trouble is Adrian - will they hide or simply manip...Trouble is Adrian - will they hide or simply manipulate results in order to continue with their discredited and cruel "solution"? It was good that serious questions were posed about this killing campaign in The House of Lords yesterday.Yorkshire Puddinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06019673884543913089noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-89435033506318419632013-10-10T06:09:31.121+01:002013-10-10T06:09:31.121+01:00It is an obscene policy. I suspect it has been a f...It is an obscene policy. I suspect it has been a failure or at least I hope it has. It will be interesting to see the results of Ditheries stupidity.ADRIANhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07113961163396562781noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-23744851298754671312013-10-10T03:44:48.599+01:002013-10-10T03:44:48.599+01:00In California, golfers want geese eliminated from ...In California, golfers want geese eliminated from golf courses because "they spread disease." There is no disease golfers can even get from geese, they just don't like getting poo on their golf shoes, poor dears. Jan Blawathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06697621979002856884noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-5627687458480814082013-10-10T01:30:33.987+01:002013-10-10T01:30:33.987+01:00I don't know what the answer is. But I can im...I don't know what the answer is. But I can imagine one of the papers submitting a Freedom of Information letter to find out who is paid and how much. Solhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10518631542782309728noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-45318763435265325482013-10-09T23:28:45.637+01:002013-10-09T23:28:45.637+01:00Culling any native animal is always going to be an...Culling any native animal is always going to be an emotional issue. We have our ongoing problem with a multiplying population of kangaroos that cause a lot of damage to crops and cattle/sheep grazing areas. I can see both sides of the argument . I wish there was an easy, more palatable solution.Helsiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15136273834165751276noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-1816462739099238982013-10-09T22:37:33.221+01:002013-10-09T22:37:33.221+01:00Good gracious! What a dreadful policy! Surely th...Good gracious! What a dreadful policy! Surely there is some other solution than to cull/ kill a native wildlife species? <br /><br />Possums here are said to (and I have no reason to doubt it) spread TB. But they are an introduced and a pest for many other reasons too. Katehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12453125929159161583noreply@blogger.com