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.
12.05.10
Responding to the news that three golden eagles have been found dead in Sutherland, SGA chairman Alex Hogg said the incident had reopened an "ugly blight" on the countryside which the Government and all of Scotland's rural organisations had been working hard to consign to history.