Shrew?

[jonnybeegood]

Philosophical question - what can you do if you find a protected animal eating a protected plant?

CVB

Nothing, that's just nature acting out, no ones going to prosecute the animal are they, its only humans that need prosecuted, otherwise there will be no wildlife to protect anyway!

 

[Hivemaker.]

no ones going to prosecute the animal are they,

Animals used to be prosecuted until recently, but thankfully no more.

 

[hedgehog66]

You are allowed to kill shrews if they are harming your livestock
See exemptions to the Act

 

[Hivemaker.]

You are allowed to kill shrews if they are harming your livestock
See exemptions to the Act

Is this law policed in any way, how would it be proven that the guilty shrew had been killed, and not an innocent shrew that was just passing through, minding its own business and doing no harm?

 

[pargyle]

Is this law policed in any way, how would it be proven that the guilty shrew had been killed, and not an innocent shrew that was just passing through, minding its own business and doing no harm?

I don't know but as they are all guilty in some way would it matter ? Same ought to apply to human criminals ....particularly any found stealing beehives ...

 

[Hivemaker.]

I don't know but as they are all guilty in some way would it matter ?

Why would you class them as all guilty when many would not be guilty of doing any harm at all, are you saying every shrew is guilty no matter what, and should be exterminated?

I think it would matter, because they would not all be guilty.

 

[pargyle]

Why would you class them as all guilty when many would not be guilty of doing any harm at all, are you saying every shrew is guilty no matter what, and should be exterminated?

Not me Pete, my comment was a bit tongue in cheek ... I can't even squish my queens when they deserve it...I even tolerate the mice that live in my garden and get in the greenhouse and nip the tops off my tomato seedlings but, if there is a shrew attacking a particular hive and you suspect it and see it ..then what option is there ? They are all insect eaters - that's what they do ... move the hives or find a way of protecting them ... foxes and hens come to mind.

 

[Hivemaker.]

my comment was a bit tongue in cheek ...

I hope so, Phil, because using your idea of justice all human criminals should also be killed, and because just about everyone commits a crime of some sort in their life, it would mean killing just about everyone on the planet.

But back to shrews, there are plenty of them around here, and i have never had any problems with them regards harming the bees, just make sure the hives are properly guarded, simple and effective.

 

[Gilberdyke John]

You are allowed to kill shrews if they are harming your livestock
See exemptions to the Act

Our cats frequently catch shrews. Cats being cats they play with them until the shrew dies but then abandon the corpses. Presumably shrews aren't any good for eating.

 

[Arfermo]

Our cats frequently catch shrews. Cats being cats they play with them until the shrew dies but then abandon the corpses. Presumably shrews aren't any good for eating.

I think I read somewhere that there is something in the spleen of shrews that upsets cats which is why after tasting one they don't try eating another but get their own back by torturing them to death? Not heard of a cat being prosecuted and fined yet - on the cards?

 

[Finman]

According the law, can you kill a shrew, if it is only planning to kill the beehive?

 

[Edwardking]

I think I read somewhere that there is something in the spleen of shrews that upsets cats which is why after tasting one they don't try eating another but get their own back by torturing them to death? Not heard of a cat being prosecuted and fined yet - on the cards?

I'd love to prosecute the cats around here - the claw damage they do to my wooden garden furniture, pergola and so on is terrible. And their owners claim 'my cat would never do that' even though I've just stopped them scratching. Cats are vermin.

 

[beehive1234]

Rub the wood with orange peel that will stop them. They hate orange peel smell.