Because many of these people simply don't give a flying fudge about anyone but themselves @B3, as @Obelixx says. It's the same problem in all areas of the country with narrower roads.
I'm finding that ignore button mighty useful.
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
@NorthernJoe. There's so many awful things happening to humans in the world, I can't get aeriated about an alpaca . It's had a good life and an easy death. Would that humans were as fortunate.
@NorthernJoe. There's so many awful things happening to humans in the world, I can't get aeriated about an alpaca . It's had a good life and an easy death. Would that humans were as fortunate.
Maybe some ex marine should have flown it out of the country?
Very sorry for the alpaca’s owner. It will be interesting to see the results of the autopsy, as I’d read that similar cases in the past revealed that the animals didn’t have TB but the vaccine they had been given skewed the results. I believe there is a similar problem that is hampering the plans to vaccinate both cattle and badgers, which could potentially get rid of TB and remove the supposed need to cull badgers. There seems to be no way of knowing whether the antibodies detected in tests are as a result of the vaccine or having had TB. I also suspect that it there isn’t as much enthusiasm to sort it out as I’d like to see. Probably cheaper to cull the cattle, who would be killed eventually anyway, and pay compensation. And of course, no one will be paying compensation for the impact on our native wildlife, who can be conveniently blamed.
I’d certainly be looking for someone to sue if my animal was found to be TB free post mortem.
I think the poor alpaca ended up far worse off - with all those people dragging it off, it must have been terrified. Had the owner just accepted it, the animal in question would still have been dead but without all the stress.
Having said that, the case has served to highlight the very large failings of the current TB policies. nearly 50,000 animals were killed in 2018. The 'ex marine' may need one of those planes they have in the Marvel films to fit them all in
Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
Changing the subject a bit - in France you cannot now go to a café, bar, restaurant, cinema, public meeting hall, public transport without a Covid Pass. We currently have a Belgian couple visiting and discussed Covid and measures last night over dinner. Today we took them off to the seaside and went for a coffee, except we couldn't get served because he had left his Covid pass back at our place and didn't have a copy on his phone!!
40 minutes wasted while he and OH tried to find a mobile signal strong enough to locate his emails and find the ruddy pass before they accepted it would be quicker, after all, to go home and fetch the ruddy thing.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
Speaking of seasides though I think the British problem with animals is summed up by seagulls. We spent years making them too bold by feeding them, then complain like hell when they're too bold and want feeding. Don't want to cull them, don't want to restore habitats and fish stocks so they bugger off back to a natural life, don't want to stop being lazy and wasteful so that they decide we're not worth pestering. A third of all human food produced goes to waste but rather than not make the stuff in the first place we now try to deny other animals the right to have it back after we're done with it.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
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Because many of these people simply don't give a flying fudge about anyone but themselves @B3, as @Obelixx says. It's the same problem in all areas of the country with narrower roads.
I'm finding that ignore button mighty useful.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
I believe there is a similar problem that is hampering the plans to vaccinate both cattle and badgers, which could potentially get rid of TB and remove the supposed need to cull badgers. There seems to be no way of knowing whether the antibodies detected in tests are as a result of the vaccine or having had TB.
I also suspect that it there isn’t as much enthusiasm to sort it out as I’d like to see. Probably cheaper to cull the cattle, who would be killed eventually anyway, and pay compensation. And of course, no one will be paying compensation for the impact on our native wildlife, who can be conveniently blamed.
I’d certainly be looking for someone to sue if my animal was found to be TB free post mortem.
Having said that, the case has served to highlight the very large failings of the current TB policies. nearly 50,000 animals were killed in 2018. The 'ex marine' may need one of those planes they have in the Marvel films to fit them all in
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
40 minutes wasted while he and OH tried to find a mobile signal strong enough to locate his emails and find the ruddy pass before they accepted it would be quicker, after all, to go home and fetch the ruddy thing.