A friend of mine was recently walking on his farm when he happened upon a lady with an off-lead dog, a long way from any of the many footpaths that transect his land. He politely pointed out both misdemeanours, adding the scare tactic of ‘snares set’ rather than request for the dog to be kept away from ground-nesting birds and roe kids, appealing to a concern she may have for her dog rather than her obvious lack of it for wildlife.
However, the lady simply robustly berated him for killing foxes.
Never one to back away from a fight, my friend related the tale of the dead ducklings he had found the day before because a fox
