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My garden is rapidly getting over-run with grey squirrels. They also
try increasingly ingenious ways to get into my loft, but I seem to be
keeping them out of there for the moment.

I can see this thread attracting some whimsical replies, but is there
anything practical that can be done to keep the local squirrel
population under control ?


Whatever you do ... don't use dogs .... not after
the Hunting Act 2004!

Although squirrels don't seem to be mentioned per se
(at least F9 didn't find any occurrences) they would
seem to belong to the class of 'wild mammals' and can't
be hunted with dogs ... although eating them would
seem to be a defence to prosecution according to the
Annexes the Act. - I imagine hordes of lawyers will
grow fat trying to argue that allowing a dog to eat a
squirrel is fundamentally different to a allowing a hound
to 'tear' a fox.

--

Brian