Predator Control?

[outandabout 27]

I dislike the term 'predator control' that you can see described by most of the large organisations these days. The BASC,RSPB etc. all use this description.

 

What's wrong these days with calling it vermin control? Maybe the word vermin is too strong for the British public?

 

Yes they will argue that predator control is a more specific term - but the only predator species we can control are vermin....

 

Maybe I'm being pedantic, but I don't like it one bit.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[walshie 2,804]

Predators are vermin but not all vermin are predators.

[foxdropper 17,092]

Bring back the vermin lines or giblets as was once called here lol.

[neil cooney 10,415]

Predators are vermin but not all vermin are predators.

Have you not got that the wrong way round Walshie ?

[walshie 2,804]

 

Predators are vermin but not all vermin are predators.

Have you not got that the wrong way round Walshie ?

 

 

No. Rabbits aren't predators.

[neil cooney 10,415]

But all predators are not vermin either, LOL.

Now I'm confused.

[walshie 2,804]

But all predators are not vermin either, LOL.

Now I'm confused.

 

Me too.

[Rowan 308]

No, No , No, No , Yes.

[stop.end 4,079]

its wording specific meaning it manages what it says, predators.... animals who are out on daily patrol to kill livestock, poultry and fowl..... there would be a fair few animals still classed as vermin by the older generation.... feral pigeons, rabbits, rats which will kill chicks and young game birds but in pest control they are still classed as a rodent..., mice, fox, grey squirrell and son on, but predator control to the younger generation and I.T. crowd as I would call them is American mink and the red fox.... these are the animals that do the most damage in rural and in the foxes case urban areas!