I was saddened to hear how some are happy to resort to cruelty to eliminate squirrels.
I know they are a absolute pest and can cause untold damage as well as eat all the bird feed but to feed them with something that is likely to cause them untold pain and misery is simply cruel. Besides its impossible to prevent other wildlife from accessing the baited food. I can't bear to think how painful chilli powder would be to an animal or bird that got it into their eyes and nose.
I don't understand how as bird lovers anyone can be prepared to cause harm to any other wildlife or domestic species in order to preserve the birds or their food.
It's not my intention to start a heated debate about this I simply wanted to stand up for what I think is right. After all if 100,000 of us animal lovers didn't stand up and sign the anti badger cull petition then there would currently be 1000's of badgers being slaughtered all over our countryside right now.
There are many clamouring for a Buzzard cull a fox culland a wild boar cull.! I feel its about time we left nature alone and stopped interfering with the natural order of things by culling and introducing non-native species into the UK natural ecology
rant over