Tv About Baby Animal

[reaper1064 285]

Just watched a program about young animals being born in England, and a woman hand rearing baby squirrels and then releasing them. Am I wrong or is that in fact illegal.

[C Hall 552]

I thought the same

[Outlaw Pete 2,224]

Enter Matt The Rat ....!

 

My own understanding of it is that there used to be a legal requirement for a MAFF (Now reformed as DEFRA, of course) permit to Keep a " Pest Species "

 

And there it, now, all breaks down amongst the syntax and legal jargonise. Maybe Snopes could try to untangle this one?

[ArchieHood 3,692]

Extract taken from "RSPCA Wildlife: Living With Grey Squirrels.............

 

Can I relocate the grey

squirrels to another area

away from my garden?

It is sometimes suggested that grey squirrels can be trapped in

live-catch traps and then relocat

ed to another site. However, i

t is illegal

to release grey squirrels. Additionally, such action may not be hu

mane since a squirrel moved to a new area is likely to have d

ifficulty

in settling into an established population and may either die or

keep travelling.

[Outlaw Pete 2,224]

Archie; That's just f**king mind bending, mate!

 

Have they a page on " Living With Foxes "? Because, I'm sure, we've all seen them televising themselves sewing up foxes and releasing them ~ Rolfe Harris 'n all .....

 

Dunno. Maybe squirrels just don't bring in the Donations as well .....

[QUINT 20]

Just watched a program about young animals being born in England, and a woman hand rearing baby squirrels and then releasing them. Am I wrong or is that in fact illegal.

me and the mate just watched the same program and had the same discussion , their an invasive species so it must be illegal ( I think ) :/

[Blackbriar 8,569]

It is illegal to release any non-native species into the wild without specific permission - whether it was found injured,hand-reared, accidentally trapped or whatever. I didn't see the programme, but the lady is committing an offence if she releases a grey squirrel without specific authorisation from DEFRA.

Planned release is not completely banned, as witnessed by the re-introduction of red kites,beaver, new species of bee and so on, but non-native release is very tightly controlled.There are restrictions on the release of Muntjac deer, for instance, though it is allowed, while the release of American mink is never authorised.

 

.However, there are many non-natives which have become firmly established, such as grey squirrels, and eradication would not be possible, so I think in this case, a blind eye is turned, provided it is released in a suitable location.

 

 

Strictly speaking, pheasants and rabbits are 'non-native'!

[BOLIO1 1,078]

And a girl breeding Border Collies said their eyes open at three weeks.....any pups I ever bred open their eyes between 12 and 14 days....am I wrong or what?

[Waz 4,293]

The first ever job I got from my yellow pages pest control ad when I went solo was a squirrel job. The neighbour who lived with his mum fed them and had names for them etc.... cage traps set in the loft,. Returns the next day and while im on my way through the loft trap bit of commotion at the front door. The neighbour wants to pay me double to release the squirrel elsewhere, 'kin loon. Told his I couldnt. Should have took his money and killed them anyway. Anyway im a few minutes away from the job, pulls up at a redlight, look in the rearview mirror and theres the neighbous freaky eyez glaring at me from the car behind! Well got to tell ya' fair freaked me out. Imagine not noticing and getting followed home to your house and your family... so a few random turns and then the ferrets got to eat their staple diett.