On 5/7/07 19:35, in article , "Alan"
wrote:

In message , Sacha
wrote

Lots of cats are house cats and never, ever go outside. Dogs are either let
out or taken out, I agree. Personally, I think it's cruel to keep cats
cooped up in a house all the time, looking through the window at the
wildlife! However, friends in e.g. USA have explained to me that their cats
are house cats because of the number of predators that can harm them. Here
- apart from man, there are only two dangers I can think of for cats, dogs
and foxes.

Foxes are not a problem for cats otherwise there would be no problem
with the number of cats in my neighbourhood. There was a documentary on
TV some years ago about the urban fox. It showed a few encounters
between cats and the fox. They either avoided each other or the cat
always won.

Foxes will kill cats. I've had friends who have lost cats that way, e.g.
out on a wild and untamed piece of hillside above their house. I'm not
talking about urban foxes only - we have both cats and foxes in the
countryside, too!

I guess that most dogs kept as pets wouldn't know what to do with a cat
if they actually caught one.

?!


Cats are said by some to account for the loss of millions of songbirds in
Britain every year.

I find the remains of a bird (lots of feathers) in my urban garden about
once a week.

Possibly a sparrow hawk is using your garden as meals on wheels. That's a
classic sign of their presence.
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--
Sacha
http://www.hillhousenursery.co.uk
(remove weeds from address)

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Given that I now seem to have badgers undermining my garage and that of my
neighbours, . . .
Snip

I suggest that if they have just started undermining, now would be a good
time to disturb them - Contact your local council, they may be able to help.

If you could get rid of them but do not, you'll never get rid of your garage
and you'll live to regret the badgers' presence when they start digging up
your garden and lawn in search of worms. Your neighbours will not be too
pleased either.

Badgers should be as far from human habitation and roads as possible. It
does them no good in the long run to live close to us and cars will help to
keep their numbers down - is that what you want?

Geoff

On 6/7/07 09:16, in article gum-uwief,
"Zhang DaWei" wrote:

On Thursday 05 Jul 2007 23:20, Sacha
) wrote:

Foxes will kill cats. I've had friends who have lost cats that way, e.g.
out on a wild and untamed piece of hillside above their house. I'm not
talking about urban foxes only - we have both cats and foxes in the
countryside, too!

At least one fox has, over the course of a few years, killed a number of
almost feral cats that live in some wooded rough ground behind us.

Given that I now seem to have badgers undermining my garage and that of my
neighbours, I wonder how badgers get on with cats. Anyone happen to know?

I don't think many cats will take on a badger if you ever get a close look
at a badger's teeth and claws. They can bit a man's leg through to the
bone.

The presence of the badgers has meant I've had to put a complete halt to
demolishing the garage (it is made of asbestos sheeting and really needs to
come down, but I don't want to do it and harm the badgers in any way, and,
in any case, it would be illegal, and, I think correctly illegal, to do so

Problem is, once you've got them, you've got them. Some setts are hundreds
of years old and I don't know if it's possible to get permission to move
them on.
--
Sacha
http://www.hillhousenursery.co.uk
(remove weeds from address)

"Zhang DaWei" wrote in message
-uwief...
...

The presence of the badgers has meant I've had to put a complete halt to
demolishing the garage (it is made of asbestos sheeting and really needs
to
come down, but I don't want to do it and harm the badgers in any way, and,
in any case, it would be illegal, and, I think correctly illegal, to do so

Badger tastes good

Mary

On 6/7/07 09:58, in article ,
"Martin" wrote:

On Thu, 05 Jul 2007 23:20:30 +0100, Sacha
wrote:

On 5/7/07 19:35, in article , "Alan"
wrote:

In message , Sacha
wrote

Lots of cats are house cats and never, ever go outside. Dogs are either
let
out or taken out, I agree. Personally, I think it's cruel to keep cats
cooped up in a house all the time, looking through the window at the
wildlife! However, friends in e.g. USA have explained to me that their
cats
are house cats because of the number of predators that can harm them. Here
- apart from man, there are only two dangers I can think of for cats, dogs
and foxes.

Foxes are not a problem for cats otherwise there would be no problem
with the number of cats in my neighbourhood. There was a documentary on
TV some years ago about the urban fox. It showed a few encounters
between cats and the fox. They either avoided each other or the cat
always won.

Foxes will kill cats. I've had friends who have lost cats that way, e.g.
out on a wild and untamed piece of hillside above their house. I'm not
talking about urban foxes only - we have both cats and foxes in the
countryside, too!

A kitten we gave away was killed by a fox.

Buzzards will also take small cats, dogs and kittens.
--
Sacha
http://www.hillhousenursery.co.uk
(remove weeds from address)

"Dick Chambers" wrote in message
...
I have lived in the same house in Leeds for the last 33 years. During the
first 27 (approximately) of these years, I hardly ever saw a snail,
although
I did have a large number of slugs. During the last 6 (approx) years,
there
has been a dramatic increase in the number of snails. On a wet evening
after
dark, if I go to post a letter in the local mail box, my feet
inadvertently
crunch a snail every tenth step, on average. I have just removed and
killed
about 50 of them from my bed of petunias, the bed being a mere 5 square
metres in area. The snails are thick on the ground. It ihas reached the
point where I would describe it as a plague.

Last night I went to a neighbour's house, three doors away. When I returned
home at 9.55 it had been raining and the pavement in front of her house and
her neighbour's were heavily populated by snails and slugs. The pavement in
front of the next house and ours were empty of them.

Now that IS a strange phenomenon.

Mary

On Fri, 6 Jul 2007 10:09:24 +0100, "Mary Fisher"
wrote:

Last night I went to a neighbour's house, three doors away. When I returned
home at 9.55 it had been raining and the pavement in front of her house and
her neighbour's were heavily populated by snails and slugs. The pavement in
front of the next house and ours were empty of them.

Now that IS a strange phenomenon.

Mary

We rarely get snails and slugs in our garden. We have no plants that
they eat.

Steve

--
Steve Wolstenholme Neural Planner Software Ltd

EasyNN-plus. The easy way to build neural networks.

http://www.easynn.com

"Zhang DaWei" wrote in message
-uwief...
On Friday 06 Jul 2007 09:47, Mary Fisher
) wrote:

Badger tastes good

I bet it's nothing like that black and white aniseed or liquorice rock you
used to buy at the seaside.

You're right.

Mary

In reply to Zhang DaWei ) who wrote this in
gum-uwief, I, Marvo, say :

On Friday 06 Jul 2007 09:47, Mary Fisher
) wrote:

Badger tastes good

I bet it's nothing like that black and white aniseed or liquorice
rock you used to buy at the seaside.

I find the hair gets stuck in one teeth.

In reply to Steve Wolstenholme ) who wrote this
in , I, Marvo, say :

On Fri, 6 Jul 2007 10:09:24 +0100, "Mary Fisher"
wrote:

Last night I went to a neighbour's house, three doors away. When I
returned home at 9.55 it had been raining and the pavement in front
of her house and her neighbour's were heavily populated by snails
and slugs. The pavement in front of the next house and ours were
empty of them.

Now that IS a strange phenomenon.

Mary

We rarely get snails and slugs in our garden. We have no plants that
they eat.

I grow things solely to feed slugs and snails, so it seems.

I would like to train the rabbits to eat the slugs. At least the rabbits are
cute.

"Steve Wolstenholme" wrote in message
...
On Fri, 6 Jul 2007 10:09:24 +0100, "Mary Fisher"
wrote:

Last night I went to a neighbour's house, three doors away. When I
returned
home at 9.55 it had been raining and the pavement in front of her house
and
her neighbour's were heavily populated by snails and slugs. The pavement
in
front of the next house and ours were empty of them.

Now that IS a strange phenomenon.

Mary

We rarely get snails and slugs in our garden. We have no plants that
they eat.

Steve


The trouble is that they like to eat what we like to eat. I didn't now until
last night that they eat tops of carrots :-(

Mary

On Jul 6, 9:16 am, Zhang DaWei wrote:
how badgers get on with cats. Anyone happen to know?

The presence of the badgers has meant I've had to put a complete halt to
demolishing the garage (it is made of asbestos sheeting and really needs to
come down,

Please promise me that you will not take down the asbestos garage
yourself? A friend's husband is terminal with asbestosis, there is no
cure, for being in contact with asbestos during the 1980s. You may
wear a mask but the fibres can and will stick to your clothing and
even though you don't see them, you will bring them into the house, it
really is very dangerous to do it yourself. There are specialist
people out there who will take the whole thing down for you and
dispose of it (you can't take it to a dump yourself).

Now, as you can tell, you have scared me so pleae say that you knew
all this and you have done as advised above.

Judith

On Jul 5, 9:44 pm, Martin wrote:

Lots of links here Judith, Eglus not Egglus!http://images.google.co.uk/images?hl...h+Images&gbv=2
--


Thank you for the link Angel. I am going to look on Ebay again as I
cannot find a supplier in France.

Judith

On Jul 5, 9:49 pm, Martin wrote:
On Thu, 05 Jul 2007 19:41:48 -0000, "

wrote:
On Jul 5, 1:49 pm, Martin wrote:

Have you thought what you are going to put in the removal van for the return
trip?

Do you know, I never thought of that!!! What do you suggest?

I thought of it because I watched a TV program about a family who moved to Spain
to grow ornamental palm trees. The truck he used to deliver a polytent from UK
was filled with ornamental palms which he sold to garden centres. If I
understood the program properly he made more from this truck load in the first
year than he did from his efforts to grow palms. I wondered why he didn't palm
tree import full time and forget about growing them. I did wonder why he didn't
buy a polytent locally but ...

Ideas on what to put in Judy's van to ...
--

Martin

What about if I fill it with wine and you can sell it, no, that's no
good Customs and Excise!!

Judith

"Uncle Marvo" wrote in message
...
In reply to Zhang DaWei ) who wrote this in
gum-uwief, I, Marvo, say :

On Friday 06 Jul 2007 09:47, Mary Fisher
) wrote:

Badger tastes good

I bet it's nothing like that black and white aniseed or liquorice
rock you used to buy at the seaside.

I find the hair gets stuck in one teeth.

You're lucky to have teeth.

Mary