Garden Wildlife UK

I read somewhere a while back that someone had taken an injured grey squirrel to a "rescue" centre, who nursed it back to health & released it. As they are vermin, I thought that that was illegal?

Good thinking batman, but the dispatched rats, mice, as it turned out, were put to good use. Their carcasses were left on the lawn & soon snapped up by, I presume, birds, during the day. When I had big problems with grey squirrels, I'd trap & dispatch them & did likewise, overnight. Our urban fox di...

Hi all, thanks for your input. The trap is now in storage & very happy the rats prefer next doors garden to mine.

Mouse-Rat.JPG Hi all, Newbie here. I am at a loss to identify the critter shown. Our next door neighbour has the odd rat in their garden, we think from some minor excavations behind their property. This was caught in the trap, please identify. The last thing we want to do is to trap cute field mice...