Why oh why is Scotland the only country in the UK to still have the ban on tail docking of working dogs?
Just back in from ferreting a plantation of young larch and scots pine trees. I am soaked to the skin and frozen. My daughter is visiting us with her boyfriend and I thought it would be a good chance for him to see some different animal tracks in the snow.
I am not a happy chappy. I was cutting old rabbit fences away this morning and my ear is bleeding profusely. I detest that high tensile wire; when you cut it with the wire cutters it goes off like a coiled spring. It felt like I had been shot in the ear.
All revved up – but nowhere to go! That’s how Fraser Gordon, a one-time Scottish motorcycle champion and the lucky winner of the Scottish Gamekeepers Association (SGA) raffle prize of a beautiful new Honda quad bike feels now that his £4500 set of wheels has been delivered to his town centre street in Musselburgh.