JohnB <[email hidden]> wrote in :"]news:[email hidden]:
Quoted message said:james said:
last night, on the way home, at the top of Greenwich Park
there was an injured grey sqirrel writhing on the road. I
ended up slowing and cycling around it which was what
other traffic was doing.
Quoted message said:What would anyone else have done
Stamped on its head, but not enjoyed doing it. Grey
squirrels are an introduced species (from America) and
they are doing a very succesful job of ousting our native
red squirrels as they are bigger and more agressive. I
share some of the other posters' sentiments, the only good
grey squirrel is a dead grey squirrel (when it's in the UK
at least).
Quoted message said:I have a long-lasing memory of finding a rabbit with
mixamatosis (sp) by the road when I was cycling on my
first round Britain ride as a young lad. While I was
looking at it a motorist pulled up and said it should be
killed. He placed it under his rear wheel, and the memory
I still have - and still shiver at - is the sound of
crunching bones as he reversed.
I came across one in the Pentlands a few years back and was
about to stamp on it when my wife stopped me. It was only a
defenceless rabbit after all! Despite pointing out that it
was suffering and it was liekly to spread the disease to
other rabbits causing them to suffer, she stood her ground,
or rather walked of in disgust at my idea and made it clear
I'd be in the bad books for months if I did it.
Rabbits are also a non-native species (introduced by the
Normans, or was it the Romans?) so, in my books, are prime
candidates for eradication. For one thing, it has been said
that if it weren't for the large areas of short grass and
numerous holes they left around the Scottish countryside,
then the game of golf would never have been invented. So
they are indirectly responsible for Pringle jumpers, boring
televised competitions and Jimmy Tarbuck et al. Those are
grounds for extermination if ever there were!
Graeme
