Hedgehogs were very common in 60-70s UK when I was growing up but I rarely ever see one now. The last time I saw one was in Prague 2006 on holiday which really surprised me!!
Ha. well, this is news. I always assumed it was because cats were thought of as retarded and untrainable, so they couldn't be held responsible for their own actions (and thus their owners followed the same).
There are numerous laws relating to haggis here in Scotland, especially the protection of wild haggis You cannot enter a haggis reservation with an open can of Tennents or bottle of cheap blended scotch as the smell can drive them into a killing frenzy My uncle Hamish once entered the haggis reservation by Loch Ness with an open bottle of Bells. They only found his sporran
You see, most only know of the small, mostly harmless lowland hill haggis. The Highland Giant haggis and the giant loch haggis are much larger and, as your poor uncle Hamish discovered, quite deadly. This is why wild haggis reserves are usually fenced off.
The grey squirrel has a title here as well Alanna, it's title is tree rat! they're considered a harmful pest, partly responsible for the drastic decline in the numbers of the native red squirrel. Btw, if your dog is worrying livestock, the farmer is within his rights to shoot it.
@@paulguise698 I was dog-sitting for a friend once and decided to take him for a walk. We were on a public footpath but ended up wandering the wrong way, next a field of cows. A farmer zoomed up in a tractor (green John Deere of course) with a border collie and a rifle. Threatened to shoot the dog and set the collie on me if we didn’t stop worrying his animals. He only calmed down when pointed out I wasn’t in his field and I was walking a toy poodle, not a collie. What outcome was going to distress his cattle more?
Cats don't have owners - they have staff. I speak with some authority because I'm butler-in-chief to mine... sorry, that is to say the cat whom I brought home as a kitten, and after carrying out a detailed inspection upon arrival, declared "it'll do as somewhere to base my operations - for the time being." Luckily, he's decided to stay - so far. I can also say with some authority that cats fall prey to many illnesses - but insomnia isn't one of them.
In Scotland they've released pine martens, which are natural predators of grey squirrels. Apparently the grey squirrels take one look at a pine marten and nope out and LEAVE THE AREA and then red squirrels move in. Red squirrels evolved alongside pine martens, so they tend to just find a small branch and laugh at the much heavier pine marten.
According to a solicitor it means "attacking and chasing livestock in such a way that it could reasonably cause injury, suffering, abortion or loss of production." but could also mean "being at large in a field or enclosure where there are livestock, the dog not bein on a lead".
We used to have a lot of hedgehogs. Now people put up garden fences it stops the hedgehogs from moving around. I haven't had a hedgehog in my garden for years. There's no way for one to reach it. Hedgehog holes in fences should be mandatory.
Where I used to live, we had a whole family of hedgehogs living underneath our shed. There was a reasonable sized gap under the shed floor and the ground and they'd moved in so we saw them regularly. They're feisty buggers at the best of times - they curl up at the earliest opportunity and run like hell when they feel threatened... smart little critters! :D
Great video! I'm surprised that you've never seen a wild hedgehog, I've seen plenty of them here in Cheshire, hanging out at the side of the road. I was surprised by the pictures you showed, though, the ones I've seen are rather flat and don't appear to be very active. Weird!
I'm in Ibiza and got stopped by police last year asking to see: -the dog's collar tag with tel no.s -a bottle of disinfectant/vinagre -poop bags AND.... the dog's DNA certificate. They introduced a program to register all resident dogs' DNA sample, so that any unclaimed poo could be attributed to the specific guilty canine and then fined.
I often see wild hedgehogs here in Oxfordshire, but it's always a treat. I love the snorting snuffling noises they make! They're surprisingly quick on their feet
Came home once to see a hedgehog the size of a football in my kitchen. Who the f*CK let a hedgehog in?no-one admitted it. All the doors were shut. Never found out how it got in.
Drop in any night and you'll see Mr & Mrs HedgePig and their brood scouring our lawn for food. The little buggers set off the security lights so we always know when they arrive.
I imagine a bunch of hedgehogs standing just out of range of your security lights, backs against the garden shed, and one says to the others, "Watch this. This really annoys them" as he repeatedly sticks a leg in range then withdraws it again, setting off your lights, and they're all sniggering and chuckling!
10 shillings is 50 pence. But with the decrease in the value of money, 10 shillings was of the same order of magnitude as a labourer's weekly wage in the latter part of the nineteenth century.
It's not uncommon in some rural areas in the UK to be driving along and then have to stop because there's livestock (such as cattle) being walked along or across the road from one field to another. I don't know if they adhere to the timings in that law though 😅
What got me was your surprise about the taxi and rabid dogs. Is rabies common in Canada? Here in the UK we are very against any animal who may or may not have contracted rabies. We have strict border controls at points of entry to Britain where an animal can be taken and put into quarantine (at your expense) until it is definitely clear of diseases. Unfortunately this only applies to honest owners and not to the bastards who smuggle animals into the country. We are proud of being rabies free and would like to keep it that way as rabies is easily transferred to humans and it's not a very pleasant sickness.
They are also neither livestock nor working animals (which all dogs are considered to be for historical reasons). Cats are just choosing to live with us for the time being so are not our responsibility.
I love your style of presentation. Very funny. Yes, I have seen hedgehogs in he wild but they are certainly getting rarer these days. I've also seen badgers both live and lots of dead ones on the roadside.
Some cats fall under the law now, years ago my neighbour owned a puma which escaped a couple of times. In court he asserted that if you had a GLC flat which prohibited having a dog but you could have a cat. In this respect he correctly asserted that at the time you could legally have an adult Siberian Tiger in your flat. He won the case.
If my neighbours kept pigs, I don't think it would be their visibility that would be the problem! Great video, Alanna. It made me laugh the way it kept coming back to death and destruction.
Team cat here. Still love them, in spite of the fact that they caused the extinction of the Stephen's Island Wren - a story which is often exaggerated to lay the blame on a single cat for the extinction of the entire species. True story: my first ever job involved working with some of the largest cats in the world - as I had a seasonal job at Whipsnade Zoo.
I found this which i think shows better how much it would of been "Well with 10 shillings I could go see a a top flight football match, go fishing, go to the pub for a night out and have fish and chips on the way home and still have change in my pocket"
The reason for making a dog bark is that it can be very frightening to have to a dog threatening you! Note Police dogs trained to bark on demand! A legal exception
The herding of cattle law - dont forget before railways & refrigeration were able to bring fresk milk into the cities, milking cows were kept in/very close to cities - so in that context the law makes common sense. Driving Test - it would also very much depend where you pulled up rather than stopping itself.
I live in my apartment by the grace of the resident cat - funnily enough I thought it was the other way around when I adopted her... the more you know! She likes to have me move seats so that she can absorb the warmth. She tells me when she thinks I should go to bed.... She's the most vocal cat I know... worse than my mother used to be!!
Hey alanna, not really a relevant comment - just wanted to say I found your channel a few months ago and I love your videos! So, thanks and keep going! Ps: burial berth 😂 but also dogs dying 💔
The term "worrying sheep" has always been understood to mean a dog running riot in a field full of sheep, chasing them around (like a sheepdog does, only without any shepherds's control) and causing the sheep deep distress. Dogs who have done this have been condemned to death, because pregnant ewes have been known to miscarry after being chased by uncontrolled dogs.
@@alanparkinson549 According to Google, "Sheep worrying occurs when a dog is either chasing or worrying a sheep to the point where it is reasonably expected that the sheep will endure suffering or injury". This is not the same as the very unlikely event of a dog that's often smaller than a sheep trying to attack it by biting its neck and shaking it - so I beg to differ on that point. I've read enough stories of dogs being condemned for 'sheep-worrying' when they simply got over-excited chasing them around till the poor sheep were almost exhausted - much to the enragement of the farmer.
As an animal lover, I was slightly traumatised when a juvenile grey squirrel was brought to our vet clinic, and I was told I had to put it to sleep. The poor thing was terrified 😢 I get why, and I LOVE red squirrels, but it was still sad.
My wife and I take on elderly cats with health issues, our current master is a very elusive and charming three legged Ginger. He looks very handsome and purrs allot, until that is when he gets onto the Vets table, when he grows an extra leg. So much so he's got a red flag warning on his notes, that my boy take no prisoners. 😂🤣
I haven't seen a red squirrel in England in over 40 years. I think the red squirrel has been pushed into Scotland with none left anywhere else because of the Grey.
There is a small wooded 'sanctuary' in Formby? Liverpool, where they run wild. Speaking to the Rangers, they have a full time job keeping the greys at bay.
I had one come into my bedroom through the open window 2 days ago. (Isle of Wight) Normally see at least one in the garden most days if i'm at home. Even mid winter a sunny day brings them out.
I see hedgehogs and badgers every night in the spring and summer months from my lounge and or bedroom window of my 1st floor flat. The block is built next to vast untouched field with brambles, a few swamps and grass as tall as skyscrapers. Foxes are very common around the estate as well. After 2200 hours, the estate is dead and silent and its then badgers, hedgehogs and rats the size of tanks like to come out and play. So cute.
I grew up with a dog and two cats, since the pandemic so many people got dogs and soooo many people were not prepared to train and discipline their dogs appropriately. There has been an explosion of dangerous breeds, bread dangerously! By which I mean that they are inter-bread to a dangerous degree. Even if you have a sensible dog, you are likely to come across a psychopath dog that will be drawn to your dog and also you. If the owner is incompetent or unprepared the consequences can be heartbreaking
Alanna, about UK Grey Squirrels - "Squirrels don't really have a lot of natural predators... ...so the squirrels just explode" Does exploding a grey squirrel count as humanely destroying it???
I used to regularly see hedgehogs they were common. Sadly not anymore. At my old student house their snuffling outside my window often used to wake me up (I'm a light sleeper).🦔🦔🦔
Cat person here..😸..don't forget Swans are the property of the Crown ...and it's illegal to eat sausages with a spoon on Fridays ....OK that maybe isn't true or is it ??
Rabbits. The Pests act 1954 "The occupier of any land in a rabbit clearance area shall take such steps as may from time to time be necessary for the killing or taking of wild rabbits living on or resorting to the land" This applies to most of England and Wales and includes gardens!
The dogs worrying stock, is mostly to protect sheep. Dogs will chase sheep in fun and if the sheep are pregnant they can miscarry. My fil was member of the city livery company of haberdashers, which gave him the right to herdhis sheep across London Bridge, of course 14th century law.
I didn't know that it's illegal to bury your dog in your garden if the house is rented, but it makes sense because the house isn't yours. You might not know this, but there are pet crematoriums. There's an excellent one in Nottinghamshire called Forget me not.
I was very excited when I discovered a hedgehog 🦔 was living under a very large shrub in an unfenced part of my garden, which had a lot of dry fallen leaves under it, probably an ideal habitat for these shy creatures; I only realised it/they were there when I decided to remove said fallen leaves, but when I realised it was home to one or more hedgehogs I left well alone ❤️😀.
The Lancashire dog barking thing is only on the coast, apparently. Which bit of the coast I have no idea but I suspect it's a specific local law. It's ok to incite one to bark, however, if instructed to do so by a police officer. Now I'm wondering why a police officer would issue such an instruction.
Many years ago a developer wanted to develop the farm next to the County Council buildings for anything, housing, industrial etc however, the County objected to every application so the developer created a pig farm in the fields next to the Council site, the object being to persuade the Council to allow anything other than legitimate farm operations. They were unsuccessful. The site was eventually developed as a pub and restaurant in the original farmhouse and outbuildings, which must have devalued the plot considerably.
Fun fact: if you're granted the keys to the city you're allowed to circumvent that rule about not driving cattle. Footballer Ian Wright was / is allowed to drive cattle through London because of his award.
In medieval times most houses, even in cities, had pigs, there to eat waste outside the front door in the main street. Gladstone's Land, a 16th century house in Edinburgh owned be the National Trust for Scotland, has a fibreglass pig outside to show what this would have looked like, fortunately not smells like.
A hedgehog visited our backyard a few years back, but it was dark and everyone freaked out. On that note, did I imagine that Hedgehog flavored chips were on sale in the UK some years ago ? Assuming they were, there are a few things to unpack here like how did the folks that made or ate them even know they tasted of Hedgehog ? 😂
Hi Alanna,your research abilities never cease to amaze me and the result is very entertaining which then leads to a chuckle or two or even more.Thank you for rounding off my early evening viewing it was very enjoyable.cheers.Roly🇬🇧.
I belong to the Cows Rights Council, Cows should have the Right to Vote, Get a job and be paid for their work, Cows are people, and be treated the same as any other person under the law.
One shilling was equal to five pence at the time of decimalisation. A farthing was a quarter of an old penny. Two farthings were a halfpenny, pronounced haypenny but referred to as ha’penny. Two half pennies equaled a penny. Twelve pennies made a shilling and there were twenty shillings in a pound. NB. There were ten shilling notes, better known as ten bob notes. Many other terms were in use for different quantities such as sixpence, such as having a sixpenny bag of something.
"Don't drink and ride" extends to pedal cycles, scooters, electric scooters/bikes and mobility scooters. [ anything defined as a vehicle, but, not necessarily needing a license ] 'Drunk in charge of a pedal cycle' is a public nuisance. The nuisance in case of arrest is always obvious,
14:38 TO WORRY - In the context of dogs, I've always believed the word 'worry' to mean... 'to shake, tear or mangle with the teeth.' The reason for this? I'm a fan of the fictional detective, Sherlock Holmes'. Many years ago, while reading 'The Hound of The Bskervilles,' I came across the following passage... 'In front of us, as we flew up the track, we heard scream after scream from Sir Henry and the deep roar of the hound. I was in time to see the beast spring upon its victim, hurl him to the ground, and worry at his throat.' This was the first time I learned that the word, 'worry' meant more than 'to be anxious'. And so, in the context of 'dog management', I believe the statute is regarding the dog getting physical with another animal rather than simply causing anxiety alone, albeit that probably being the case also.
Yeah, we have hardly any red squirrels left, I feel like the law against gray squirrels is from the time we were trying to stop or slow that process as the invasive gray squirrel was/is pushing out the red squirrels. The decline of red squirrels has happened in my lifetime and that's sad, I can remember seeing red squirrels in the 80s and 90s.
Hiya Alanna, I saved a hedgehog once it was trying to cross the road, I picked it back up and put it in the grass verge, when I got about 30 yards away that's when it opened back up and walked into the field, say Alanna I liked the time when you thought someone was being attacked, your boyfriend said "its just some Foxes mating" I thought it was hilarious, this is Choppy in Whitehaven, Cumbria, England
The word "worry" comes from a Middle English word, which means "to choke or strangle", so when we talk about dogs worrying sheep we are using the word in its original sense.
I hate gardening. My garden looks like a war zone. The upside is that it is ideal habitat for hedgehogs and other wildlife. A hedgehog regularly snuffles (they make this perculiar sound as they go) its way past our back door at twilight on its way to a nights forraging.
Have you ever seen a wild hedgehog?? 🦔 I literally cannot wait until I see one myself 🥰
No! But there are plenty of grey squirrels in the garden! 🙂
Yes
seen loads of wild hedgehogs keep haveingto move them of the road at night and put them in the park
Hedgehogs were very common in 60-70s UK when I was growing up but I rarely ever see one now. The last time I saw one was in Prague 2006 on holiday which really surprised me!!
Loads!!
Dogs have owners, cats have staff.
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Ha. well, this is news. I always assumed it was because cats were thought of as retarded and untrainable, so they couldn't be held responsible for their own actions (and thus their owners followed the same).
Prisoner 1 “What are you in for?”
Prisoner 2 “Armed robbery. You?”
Prisoner 1 “Handling salmon suspiciously.”
My parrot worries sheep, keeps saying Mint sauce
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You know what they say,
'The old ones are ...
Old'
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There are numerous laws relating to haggis here in Scotland, especially the protection of wild haggis
You cannot enter a haggis reservation with an open can of Tennents or bottle of cheap blended scotch as the smell can drive them into a killing frenzy
My uncle Hamish once entered the haggis reservation by Loch Ness with an open bottle of Bells. They only found his sporran
You see, most only know of the small, mostly harmless lowland hill haggis. The Highland Giant haggis and the giant loch haggis are much larger and, as your poor uncle Hamish discovered, quite deadly. This is why wild haggis reserves are usually fenced off.
Is it true that their left legs are shorter than the right ones, apparently it's something to do with them walking around Ben Nevis. 🤣😂
If you put a dish out with Buckfast in it, you might get to see one in the very early morning.
Forgive 🙏, 2nd generation Scottish 😂
@@everestyeti For the lowland hill haggis and the highland giant haggis, yes.
Thank you
Growing up in the 70s, I used to see hedgehogs all the time. I can’t remember the last time I saw one.
Over 80% decline in the last decade 😢
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Really? I’ve seen them in my garden a couple times but that’s about it 😔
@shanellemurrey9300
Aye, they used to be everywhere
I've not seen one for real for a long time now, often used to see them scurrying about at night and also sadly splattered on the road too.
I still see a fair few in Hampshire. It's just unfortunate that the majority of them are two dimensional.
The grey squirrel has a title here as well Alanna, it's title is tree rat! they're considered a harmful pest, partly responsible for the drastic decline in the numbers of the native red squirrel. Btw, if your dog is worrying livestock, the farmer is within his rights to shoot it.
I told my friend that, but she wouldn't believe me
@@paulguise698 I was dog-sitting for a friend once and decided to take him for a walk. We were on a public footpath but ended up wandering the wrong way, next a field of cows. A farmer zoomed up in a tractor (green John Deere of course) with a border collie and a rifle. Threatened to shoot the dog and set the collie on me if we didn’t stop worrying his animals. He only calmed down when pointed out I wasn’t in his field and I was walking a toy poodle, not a collie. What outcome was going to distress his cattle more?
I live next to a small woods in Inverness and we see red squirrels in the garden sometimes. No grey suirrels here.
Sadly it will happen eventually@@lindsaymckeown513
you dont own a cat, a cat owns you
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Dogs have owners, cats have staff.
Cats don't have owners - they have staff. I speak with some authority because I'm butler-in-chief to mine... sorry, that is to say the cat whom I brought home as a kitten, and after carrying out a detailed inspection upon arrival, declared "it'll do as somewhere to base my operations - for the time being." Luckily, he's decided to stay - so far. I can also say with some authority that cats fall prey to many illnesses - but insomnia isn't one of them.
Absolutely true!
@@Canalcoholic💯%! Half the time my cat’s yowling I’m expected to guess why.
moral of the story: If you take your livestock to Wetherspoons, be sure to have a designated drover.
In Scotland they've released pine martens, which are natural predators of grey squirrels. Apparently the grey squirrels take one look at a pine marten and nope out and LEAVE THE AREA and then red squirrels move in. Red squirrels evolved alongside pine martens, so they tend to just find a small branch and laugh at the much heavier pine marten.
To be fair it is actually the squirrel population that explodes, not the squirrel itself.
I sometimes end my sentence talking like a cat, don't ask meow.
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When a dog is 'worrying' livestock, the word worrying, in this instance actually means biting and shaking. Actually causing direct physical injury.
According to a solicitor it means "attacking and chasing livestock in such a way that it could reasonably cause injury, suffering, abortion or loss of production." but could also mean "being at large in a field or enclosure where there are livestock, the dog not bein on a lead".
We used to have a lot of hedgehogs. Now people put up garden fences it stops the hedgehogs from moving around. I haven't had a hedgehog in my garden for years. There's no way for one to reach it. Hedgehog holes in fences should be mandatory.
Hedgehogs climb fences, at the top the roll up and drop 7ft and land on their spikes cushioning the fall. True.
01:20 Anyone remember Hedgehog Crisps?
Yep when I was a kid they weren't around long, As they were banned by trading standards for not having real hedgehog in them.
I remember them in "The Good Food" shop in Hertford, ironically. This would have been early 80's.
Yes. They were associated with a Hedgehog charity as I recall.
We Brits do love our animals and will pass any law however crazy to protect them. Dogs are our friends and cats are our cute & furry overlords. 🐈🐕😍😍😍
Didn’t pit bulls just get the boot last year?
@@lovey980 That was XL bullies. Woman was just killed by hers on Monday.
Where I used to live, we had a whole family of hedgehogs living underneath our shed. There was a reasonable sized gap under the shed floor and the ground and they'd moved in so we saw them regularly. They're feisty buggers at the best of times - they curl up at the earliest opportunity and run like hell when they feel threatened... smart little critters! :D
I’m in Wigan, Lancashire. My dog, Molly, reached 13 before she realised she could bark. Now she barks at everything.
There is talk about reintroducing pine martens in Britain as a form of grey squirrel control.
Great video! I'm surprised that you've never seen a wild hedgehog, I've seen plenty of them here in Cheshire, hanging out at the side of the road. I was surprised by the pictures you showed, though, the ones I've seen are rather flat and don't appear to be very active. Weird!
I'm in Ibiza and got stopped by police last year asking to see:
-the dog's collar tag with tel no.s
-a bottle of disinfectant/vinagre
-poop bags
AND.... the dog's DNA certificate. They introduced a program to register all resident dogs' DNA sample, so that any unclaimed poo could be attributed to the specific guilty canine and then fined.
There are quite a few hedgehog rescues in Kent. You might want to see if any have open days so you can get to see some
I often see wild hedgehogs here in Oxfordshire, but it's always a treat. I love the snorting snuffling noises they make! They're surprisingly quick on their feet
Came home once to see a hedgehog the size of a football in my kitchen. Who the f*CK let a hedgehog in?no-one admitted it. All the doors were shut. Never found out how it got in.
Picked the lock with one of its spines.
Drop in any night and you'll see Mr & Mrs HedgePig and their brood scouring our lawn for food. The little buggers set off the security lights so we always know when they arrive.
I imagine a bunch of hedgehogs standing just out of range of your security lights, backs against the garden shed, and one says to the others, "Watch this. This really annoys them" as he repeatedly sticks a leg in range then withdraws it again, setting off your lights, and they're all sniggering and chuckling!
10 shillings is 50 pence. But with the decrease in the value of money, 10 shillings was of the same order of magnitude as a labourer's weekly wage in the latter part of the nineteenth century.
It's not uncommon in some rural areas in the UK to be driving along and then have to stop because there's livestock (such as cattle) being walked along or across the road from one field to another. I don't know if they adhere to the timings in that law though 😅
What got me was your surprise about the taxi and rabid dogs. Is rabies common in Canada? Here in the UK we are very against any animal who may or may not have contracted rabies. We have strict border controls at points of entry to Britain where an animal can be taken and put into quarantine (at your expense) until it is definitely clear of diseases. Unfortunately this only applies to honest owners and not to the bastards who smuggle animals into the country. We are proud of being rabies free and would like to keep it that way as rabies is easily transferred to humans and it's not a very pleasant sickness.
Ah Royal fishes, taught about that when joining HM Coastguard, I'm sure the monarch still has to be informed about royal fish coming ashore
I'm fairly sure cats are treated differently because they are not considered fully domesticated.
They are also neither livestock nor working animals (which all dogs are considered to be for historical reasons). Cats are just choosing to live with us for the time being so are not our responsibility.
Got an old lady cat I’ve had for 18 years and counting. She is definitely not fully domesticated, nor able to be.
As someone who has over the years had 13 cats, it's not because they can't be domesticated, it's because they don't care!
Whoops ! I have ridden a drunk horse (Had to drag him out of the pub)
Oughhh no... that was painful 😂
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The barman said "Why the long face?"
"The Squirrels just explode" conjures up some very Monty Pythonesq images 🤣 "This squirrel is deceased. It has expired. It is kicking up the daisys"
Hedgehogs used to be quite common - haven't seen one in years!😐 Team cat!
I love your style of presentation. Very funny. Yes, I have seen hedgehogs in he wild but they are certainly getting rarer these days. I've also seen badgers both live and lots of dead ones on the roadside.
Some cats fall under the law now, years ago my neighbour owned a puma which escaped a couple of times. In court he asserted that if you had a GLC flat which prohibited having a dog but you could have a cat. In this respect he correctly asserted that at the time you could legally have an adult Siberian Tiger in your flat. He won the case.
I feel blessed having a hedgehog visit my garden.
12. Fenton!!
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Jesus Christ, NO!
I live on the Isle of Wight which is pretty much the last remaining habitat for Red Squirrels so I understand why the fuss about the Greys.
Lake District, Northumberland, Brownsea Island ... all have red squirrels.
Ahem. Scotland...
If my neighbours kept pigs, I don't think it would be their visibility that would be the problem! Great video, Alanna. It made me laugh the way it kept coming back to death and destruction.
I like how we have to import a Canadian, to educate us Brits !
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Team cat here.
Still love them, in spite of the fact that they caused the extinction of the Stephen's Island Wren - a story which is often exaggerated to lay the blame on a single cat for the extinction of the entire species.
True story: my first ever job involved working with some of the largest cats in the world - as I had a seasonal job at Whipsnade Zoo.
10 shillings =50p
That's now, in 1860 it was worth a lot more, about £80.00 in todays money.
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@@CovBloke1310ah reminds me of the old joke " bent as a 9 bob note".
I found this which i think shows better how much it would of been "Well with 10 shillings I could go see a a top flight football match, go fishing, go to the pub for a night out and have fish and chips on the way home and still have change in my pocket"
hedgehogs are actually the opposite of parliament.
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Except the curling up in a ball and hiding when they encounter something they dont like.
The reason for making a dog bark is that it can be very frightening to have to a dog threatening you! Note Police dogs trained to bark on demand! A legal exception
We have a long history with badgers 😂😂😂😂😂 why did i straight away ,think of Bodger the Badger 😂😂😂😂😂😂
Mashed potato!!!!
@@simonmeadows7961 you fudge , I'd only just got that song out of my head 😂 😂 😂
@@simonmeadows7961 p.s. now we ve just gotto get Alanna singing it !!!!
It may vary by dog. But with ours, it's best to leave the house with three poop bags to be on the safe side.
Always had cats as pets. Team Cat.
The herding of cattle law - dont forget before railways & refrigeration were able to bring fresk milk into the cities, milking cows were kept in/very close to cities - so in that context the law makes common sense.
Driving Test - it would also very much depend where you pulled up rather than stopping itself.
Dogs have owners, cats have staff. The cat adopts its staff.
I live in my apartment by the grace of the resident cat - funnily enough I thought it was the other way around when I adopted her... the more you know!
She likes to have me move seats so that she can absorb the warmth. She tells me when she thinks I should go to bed.... She's the most vocal cat I know... worse than my mother used to be!!
Hey alanna, not really a relevant comment - just wanted to say I found your channel a few months ago and I love your videos! So, thanks and keep going! Ps: burial berth 😂 but also dogs dying 💔
The term "worrying sheep" has always been understood to mean a dog running riot in a field full of sheep, chasing them around (like a sheepdog does, only without any shepherds's control) and causing the sheep deep distress. Dogs who have done this have been condemned to death, because pregnant ewes have been known to miscarry after being chased by uncontrolled dogs.
Worrying does not mean to frighten! It means to grip in the mouth and shake violently, a dog's method of killing.
@@alanparkinson549 According to Google, "Sheep worrying occurs when a dog is either chasing or worrying a sheep to the point where it is reasonably expected that the sheep will endure suffering or injury".
This is not the same as the very unlikely event of a dog that's often smaller than a sheep trying to attack it by biting its neck and shaking it - so I beg to differ on that point.
I've read enough stories of dogs being condemned for 'sheep-worrying' when they simply got over-excited chasing them around till the poor sheep were almost exhausted - much to the enragement of the farmer.
As an animal lover, I was slightly traumatised when a juvenile grey squirrel was brought to our vet clinic, and I was told I had to put it to sleep. The poor thing was terrified 😢 I get why, and I LOVE red squirrels, but it was still sad.
My wife and I take on elderly cats with health issues, our current master is a very elusive and charming three legged Ginger. He looks very handsome and purrs allot, until that is when he gets onto the Vets table, when he grows an extra leg. So much so he's got a red flag warning on his notes, that my boy take no prisoners. 😂🤣
I’m a dog person 🦮 golden retrievers are my favourite dog breed and when I was younger I had a hedgehog 🦔 as a pet
1:35 A "barkbecue" presumably...
I haven't seen a red squirrel in England in over 40 years. I think the red squirrel has been pushed into Scotland with none left anywhere else because of the Grey.
Brownsea Island in Poole harbour is famous for its red squirrels.
There is a small wooded 'sanctuary' in Formby? Liverpool, where they run wild. Speaking to the Rangers, they have a full time job keeping the greys at bay.
I had one come into my bedroom through the open window 2 days ago. (Isle of Wight)
Normally see at least one in the garden most days if i'm at home. Even mid winter a sunny day brings them out.
There are still reds in Whinfell Forest to the east of Penrith in Cumbria, where Center Parcs is.
I see hedgehogs and badgers every night in the spring and summer months from my lounge and or bedroom window of my 1st floor flat. The block is built next to vast untouched field with brambles, a few swamps and grass as tall as skyscrapers. Foxes are very common around the estate as well. After 2200 hours, the estate is dead and silent and its then badgers, hedgehogs and rats the size of tanks like to come out and play. So cute.
I grew up with a dog and two cats, since the pandemic so many people got dogs and soooo many people were not prepared to train and discipline their dogs appropriately. There has been an explosion of dangerous breeds, bread dangerously! By which I mean that they are inter-bread to a dangerous degree. Even if you have a sensible dog, you are likely to come across a psychopath dog that will be drawn to your dog and also you. If the owner is incompetent or unprepared the consequences can be heartbreaking
Dogs are definitely into bread, especially with peanut butter spread on it.
Alanna, about UK Grey Squirrels - "Squirrels don't really have a lot of natural predators... ...so the squirrels just explode"
Does exploding a grey squirrel count as humanely destroying it???
We get badgers in our urban back garden every night and there are such things as pet cemeteries, there's one near us in Essex.
I used to regularly see hedgehogs they were common. Sadly not anymore. At my old student house their snuffling outside my window often used to wake me up (I'm a light sleeper).🦔🦔🦔
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Cat person here..😸..don't forget Swans are the property of the Crown ...and it's illegal to eat sausages with a spoon on Fridays ....OK that maybe isn't true or is it ??
Rabbits. The Pests act 1954 "The occupier of any land in a rabbit clearance area shall take such steps as may from time to time be necessary for the killing or taking of wild rabbits living on or resorting to the land" This applies to most of England and Wales and includes gardens!
The dogs worrying stock, is mostly to protect sheep. Dogs will chase sheep in fun and if the sheep are pregnant they can miscarry.
My fil was member of the city livery company of haberdashers, which gave him the right to herdhis sheep across London Bridge, of course 14th century law.
Imagine being drunk on a cow .... Living life to the full. ( Leaves pub ) Okay Daisy lets get on home now .. Yhaww !
I didn't know that it's illegal to bury your dog in your garden if the house is rented, but it makes sense because the house isn't yours. You might not know this, but there are pet crematoriums. There's an excellent one in Nottinghamshire called Forget me not.
Hedgehogs used to be very common, they were every ware but now now. I recently saw a dead one in the road, this is how most of them end up.
I was very excited when I discovered a hedgehog 🦔 was living under a very large shrub in an unfenced part of my garden, which had a lot of dry fallen leaves under it, probably an ideal habitat for these shy creatures; I only realised it/they were there when I decided to remove said fallen leaves, but when I realised it was home to one or more hedgehogs I left well alone ❤️😀.
The Lancashire dog barking thing is only on the coast, apparently. Which bit of the coast I have no idea but I suspect it's a specific local law. It's ok to incite one to bark, however, if instructed to do so by a police officer. Now I'm wondering why a police officer would issue such an instruction.
Many years ago a developer wanted to develop the farm next to the County Council buildings for anything, housing, industrial etc however, the County objected to every application so the developer created a pig farm in the fields next to the Council site, the object being to persuade the Council to allow anything other than legitimate farm operations. They were unsuccessful. The site was eventually developed as a pub and restaurant in the original farmhouse and outbuildings, which must have devalued the plot considerably.
Fun fact: if you're granted the keys to the city you're allowed to circumvent that rule about not driving cattle. Footballer Ian Wright was / is allowed to drive cattle through London because of his award.
team Cat, obviously
In medieval times most houses, even in cities, had pigs, there to eat waste outside the front door in the main street. Gladstone's Land, a 16th century house in Edinburgh owned be the National Trust for Scotland, has a fibreglass pig outside to show what this would have looked like, fortunately not smells like.
Dachshund were originally bred, in Germany, to hunt badger and rabbits.
Dachshund literally means Badger, Dachs, dog, hund
A hedgehog visited our backyard a few years back, but it was dark and everyone freaked out. On that note, did I imagine that Hedgehog flavored chips were on sale in the UK some years ago ? Assuming they were, there are a few things to unpack here like how did the folks that made or ate them even know they tasted of Hedgehog ? 😂
They were, If by some years you mean about 30-35 ... They do taste of Hedgehog
They tasted awful.
@@Alex.H.B.1970something I didn't say hedgehog tasted good, just they tasted of hedgehog ...
... and yet still no law against cats crapping all over my lawns.
Badger baiting is a big problem. And illegal hare coursing. Horrible.
Hi Alanna,your research abilities never cease to amaze me and the result is very entertaining which then leads to a chuckle or two or even more.Thank you for rounding off my early evening viewing it was very enjoyable.cheers.Roly🇬🇧.
Also illegal to ride a bicycle drunk, although there's no specific numerical limit.
I am a member of the "Feline Revolutionary Council" and I am appealed by the level of anti-cat discrimination in this video!
I belong to the Cows Rights Council, Cows should have the Right to Vote, Get a job and be paid for their work, Cows are people, and be treated the same as any other person under the law.
I hope you mean 'appalled'
One shilling was equal to five pence at the time of decimalisation. A farthing was a quarter of an old penny. Two farthings were a halfpenny, pronounced haypenny but referred to as ha’penny. Two half pennies equaled a penny. Twelve pennies made a shilling and there were twenty shillings in a pound.
NB. There were ten shilling notes, better known as ten bob notes.
Many other terms were in use for different quantities such as sixpence, such as having a sixpenny bag of something.
As well as the corgis, which were pets, the late queen also bred labrador retreivers, to be trained and used as gun dogs.
I have a hedgehog that visits the back garden most nights
Im team Cat. I like dogs, but I dont really have the time for them, I like the combination of love and independence I get from my cats ^_^
"Don't drink and ride" extends to pedal cycles, scooters, electric scooters/bikes and mobility scooters. [ anything defined as a vehicle, but, not necessarily needing a license ]
'Drunk in charge of a pedal cycle' is a public nuisance. The nuisance in case of arrest is always obvious,
14:38 TO WORRY - In the context of dogs, I've always believed the word 'worry' to mean... 'to shake, tear or mangle with the teeth.' The reason for this? I'm a fan of the fictional detective, Sherlock Holmes'. Many years ago, while reading 'The Hound of The Bskervilles,' I came across the following passage... 'In front of us, as we flew up the track, we heard scream after scream from Sir Henry and the deep roar of the hound. I was in time to see the beast spring upon its victim, hurl him to the ground, and worry at his throat.' This was the first time I learned that the word, 'worry' meant more than 'to be anxious'.
And so, in the context of 'dog management', I believe the statute is regarding the dog getting physical with another animal rather than simply causing anxiety alone, albeit that probably being the case also.
Yeah, we have hardly any red squirrels left, I feel like the law against gray squirrels is from the time we were trying to stop or slow that process as the invasive gray squirrel was/is pushing out the red squirrels. The decline of red squirrels has happened in my lifetime and that's sad, I can remember seeing red squirrels in the 80s and 90s.
12 pence to the shilling, 20 shillings to the pound.
Although nowadays a shilling is 5 pence since decimalisation.
Hiya Alanna, I saved a hedgehog once it was trying to cross the road, I picked it back up and put it in the grass verge, when I got about 30 yards away that's when it opened back up and walked into the field, say Alanna I liked the time when you thought someone was being attacked, your boyfriend said "its just some Foxes mating" I thought it was hilarious, this is Choppy in Whitehaven, Cumbria, England
rush hour traffic? all the horses, stuck in a big line ?? (1867)
The driving test one is probably because it was an unsafe stop?...
See alanna hasn't got the british pronunciation of squirrel down yet. Great vid as always.
There is a royal swan count every year
I don't ride cows UNLESS I'm drunk! :)
There are (were) 20 shillings in a pound, so 5p per head of cattle being driven in the street during the prescribed hours.
It didn't stop us driving cattle in the 1980s, they were in gardens and and all sorts.
The word "worry" comes from a Middle English word, which means "to choke or strangle", so when we talk about dogs worrying sheep we are using the word in its original sense.
I hate gardening. My garden looks like a war zone. The upside is that it is ideal habitat for hedgehogs and other wildlife. A hedgehog regularly snuffles (they make this perculiar sound as they go) its way past our back door at twilight on its way to a nights forraging.
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