WARNING: Raw flesh on the Barbeque

[andy_e]

Another 15 moles and you'll have the finest bushcraftin' underpants known to man (or woman).

 

[Angus Og]

Mole population soars due to poison ban.

The mole population has soared across Britain due to the ban on the poison used to kill them.
Pest controlers have said they could number up to 40 million although the most recent estimate is currently 33 million.

The rise is due to a ban on the use of strychnine, commonly used as a means of killng moles, as well as the foot and mouth epidemic which cut off rural areas from pest controllers leaving the mole population unchecked.

The British Traditional Molecatchers Register, which represents 300 mole trappers, has seen call-outs triple over the last two years.

Up to 1,500 people use the online director each week, an increase of 50 per cent on last year.

Brian Alderton, who established the register in 2007, said: "Ever since the banning of strychnine, and foot and mouth, moles have been a growing problem. In the past two years we've seen a massive increase in calls for help."

More in the link below.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/environment/7824780/Mole-population-soars-due-to-poison-ban.html

 

[Tengu]

Do they do recipes?

It always seems to me a terrible thing to kill a mole, even though they eat countless useful worms, and wreck gardens.

Ive handled moles I found on the surface (be careful; very strong jaws) and you have to admit they are one of the finest fur bearers ever.

 

[_scorpio_]

i have seen someone handle a mole, LOTS of blood....

 

[MrEd]

wow they look like the monsters that used to creep up behind you in resident evil on the playstation lol

 

[TeeDee]

wow they look like the monsters that used to creep up behind you in resident evil on the playstation lol

Zombie Moles?!?!? Your kidding me!!

 

[torc]

I watched a program about mole catching last week on Disc. Real Time or some such channel. It was a sort of low budget Countryfile, quite good though.
I remember seeing their burrows for the first time in Germany a long time ago and being mystified to what they were.
Talk of moles puts me in mind of a story about sloppy market research by a business here a few years ago.
B&Q imported and stocked hundreds of ultrasonic mole repellents in their shops over here but the only problem was that Ireland has no moles.
Happy trails...torc.

 

[daveO]

i have seen someone handle a mole, LOTS of blood....

Heres me dicing with death on a recent trip to scotland . It was fairly spaced out to be fair, I found him sat on the road in the sun. I think he'd tunneled out of a stone wall and stunned himself. He went off fine once I put him back among some dead leaves and stuff. There were no gardens or fields to ruin up there so I figured he was doing no harm.

 

[TeeDee]

Actually , I think he looks quite happy , because , he's like waving...

Heres me dicing with death on a recent trip to scotland . It was fairly spaced out to be fair, I found him sat on the road in the sun. I think he'd tunneled out of a stone wall and stunned himself. He went off fine once I put him back among some dead leaves and stuff. There were no gardens or fields to ruin up there so I figured he was doing no harm.