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  1. Mr Muddy
    Mate, the moles and rabbits you’ll be alright with (as long as you don’t use gas). But fleas and wasps, you’re still going to need to do the quarterly returns. I’m not even sure about bird proofing if you’re cleaning up after the birds. Basically, if you want to be legally earning money from pest control you’re going to get your pants pulled down.
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    Thanks tiercel, that explains that then
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    I’ve got these growing near me. I don’t know much about flowers, so can anyone tell me if they are blue bells? If they are, this has got to be the earliest I’ve ever seen them.
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    Nice photos Mickey. I saw this nuthatch in my garden in the south of England a few days ago. Not the best pictures but you can see a few differences between the Michigan nuthatches and the English ones.
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    Who would you say you learned the most from mate?
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    Hopefully everyone can just cut, paste and email the letter from this thread. But I will need someones help filling the gaps.
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    Here’s my attempt at a letter to my MP. I could really use some help with this lads “Dear……, I am a constituent of yours who works in the pest control industry. Some new, completely unnecessary, legislation has recently been introduced, regarding the way a professional pest controller must deal with the waste packaging they create. …….here I really need a concise explanation of the changes and how ridiculous they are….. You may, or may not be aware that the majority of pest control companies in the UK are sole traders or very small companies. The excess of new paperw
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    As already mentioned, reduce the access for Hedgehogs, but if you even think you have water voles you should not be setting killing traps and even live catch traps will see you in bother if you are found to catch one. Because of their decline many places are getting surveys to monitor numbers and correlating mink activity so your trapping activities may come under scrutiny. Take care and work out how to tacle the issue appropriately T Thanks for the advice, always nice to hear from an expert. I only said ‘I do worry’ not ‘I recklessly set traps near the f’ing things’ and yes I have
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    Can everyone please email their MP to complain about this. You can find your MP here: http://findyourmp.parliament.uk/ or http://www.theyworkforyou.com It seems that government doesn’t care what the so called representatives of pest control have said on the topic. But MPs will care about loosing your vote!! Maybe someone on here who is good a writing letters could kindly knock-up a draft letter for all of us?
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    I’d also like to know the answer to that. So far I’ve been lucky, but I do worry. Water voles is another one.
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    I’m reading this as: Register as a low tier carrier. (tick, done that) In three months time you’ve got to get rid of all the empty boxes and shit that’s piling up in your stores and send it away with a form that costs £10 from the EA. Then in six months you do the same; then nine months, so on and so on. Hope that’s right. Where would I get the EA forms? The Environment Agency’s website is it?
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    Yes I did catch a bit of that. I have to say; that NPTA bloke came across as plain rude. I had no plans to join NPTA anyway, but it’s definitely a no now.
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    Hang on; What’s going on with this stars bollox. And why’s my thread only got two? The picture of Phil’s dog is worth twice that on its own. And, as I say: not my forum- not my place to tell anyone what not to write; but come on MMK, all the ‘you wouldn’t say it to my face’ crap. It’s just boring to read mate.
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    This is just my own rather unnecessary opinion, and from someone who isn't very good at maths! not an unnecessary opinion, I'm genuinely interested. Red tape will certainly discourage any new ‘above board’ start-ups who plan to continue using rodenticide. So eventually; definitely a bigger market share to the big boys, however well qualified existing independent pest controllers are. But will it actually encourage more people willing to grab a box of traps and call themselves a ‘Rat catcher’ if they see more work going that way. That’s why I likened it to mole trapping after t
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    This is a bit of a spin off from previous threads, but here goes: It’s now seeming like, through either their actions or inactions, the suits that can’t wipe their arse with out using an acronym, and have probably never seen a rat, are wrapping rodendicides up with so much red tape they soon won’t be worth bothering with. So my questions are: Do you think it would be possible to run a pest control company without using rodenticide? Do you think there might be a resurgence of traditional local Rat Catchers (a bit like mole trapping after the end of strychnine) if it’s only th
  16. Mr Muddy
    'standards for mouse rat and mole traps more akin to spring traps approval order' I’m not sure that mightn’t be such a bad thing. I bought a box of the ‘Mini Rex’ traps and they’re going in the bin. Used them on a couple of jobs and I’d say maybe half the mice weren’t killed what I’d call cleanly (and I think I’ve got realistic -even lenient- acceptance of what constitutes a clean kill). A minimum trap pressure, or instant kill rate score, or something, might be a good idea for mouse traps.
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    Fascinating things wild animals, arn’t they. I’ve been told by lots of people that nothing eats moles. But then I’ve found half-eaten moles in my traps and I’ve also found their skulls in owl pellets. One type of shrew, water shrews, actually has a poisonous bite. I recon moles and shrew type animals might have some residual poison that makes them all taste a bit icky. I’ve no idea how you’d test that theory: unless you can get your mate to eat a water shrew. If it tastes like mole, only even worse, I think I’m onto something.
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    Thanks for that. If I want to show that secondary poisoning in dogs is largely paranoia then there’s the figures! I can see how theoretically, something that weighs the same as a rat; kestrels, little owls etc could be susceptible, (although to my knowledge they don’t eat carrion, so I’d be surprised). For dogs, cats, foxes, badgers= largely paranoia. My theory: Secondary poisoning concerns are not just people being ignorant. They are due to companies that abandon boxes that contain kgs of bait. (see photo). Slugs & snails eat the bait, shrews and thrushes eat the snails, bigger
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    Right, yes, I have heard of the small ground vermin exemption. Sorry Ebay. Did find another one though, no snails this time, but this one’s got to be ‘blatantly-illegal-to-use’ http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/2013-Duke-Company-0300-Long-Spring-Animal-Trap-/360728353247?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_3&hash=item53fd15d9df
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    Here’s the link to another blatantly-illegal-to-use trap on ebay (no surprise there): http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1-x-Traps-Animal-Mouse-Rat-Hunting-STRONG-Snap-Catch-Trap-Catcher-VTG-/171159500622?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item27d9e6b74e But what do you recon on the snails as bait!!! That’s a new one on me.
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    What does 'banded' mean micky?
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    Thanks for that Blatta, I’ll keep an eye on the labels (I do anyway). I must say ‘In and around buildings’ sounds like the worst of both worlds= flocoumafen under the bird table and rats living it up in the park.
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    I had this link emailed to me: http://www.pestmagazine.co.uk/_attachments/Resources/898_S4.pdf I can’t make head nor tail of it. I’m not even sure what it is. ‘Proposals for SGARs Industry Stewardship’ what does the even mean? I do, at least, know what SGARs are, and I’m guessing it’s something that’s going to be sent to Whitehall. But, surely the government will just go with whoever spends the most on lobbying? Presumably retailers & chemical companies. Can someone please give me the heads-up on this?
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    Actually, now I’m thinking about it, that’s not everything off my chest. So here’s another volley: A couple of times last year I was accusingly asked “are you an actual Master Mole catcher?” And that’s all to do with the ‘molecatchers guild’ load of cobblers. As I understand it; a ‘Master,’ taking, for example a Master Goldsmith, is someone who has taught an indentured apprentice through their four or five year apprenticeship, then helped with the apprentices ‘Masterpiece’ at the end of training. All that after going through the same training themselves forty years earlier. Takin
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    That says it all really; join for free; you don’t even have to have caught a mole, you certainly don’t have to have a business; obeying the real laws and customer protection rules and regulations that entails. Guilds are ore organisations like the ‘Worshipful Company of Gunmakers’, with the Halls, Freemen and Livery that entails. There is certainly not a genuine ‘Livery Company’ for mole catchers I’m afraid. So in my personal opinion the use of the name 'Guild' is misleading. Is it possible they’re trying to be confused with City & Guilds, a vocational education organisation that
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