I know I m going to get my head bitten off but here goes anyway

Very tenuous!

MissAdventure

Nazis goose stepped..

Aaaah. So that's the link.

Nazis goose stepped..

Harry as a Nazi? I thought that this thread was about game bird shooting? Harry doesn't go out hunting, shooting and fishing so what has he got to do with this?

greengreengrass

Pics of Royals' hunting nothing compared to the pic of Harry dressing up as an SS Nazi guard for a fancy dress party and thinking it was funny.

Remember that one. Nothing changes.

Which has absolutely nothing to do with this thread.

news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/4170083.stm

Harry as a Nazi

Pics of Royals' hunting nothing compared to the pic of Harry dressing up as an SS Nazi guard for a fancy dress party and thinking it was funny.

Remember that one. Nothing changes.

DH was attacked by a goose when he was a small child.

He hates them!!

Meanies.

Geese can be very scary.

It's not that long since families kept a pig and some hens in the garden

We most certainly did Callistemon. And a couple of geese as guard dogs against foxes too. And then we ate them.

So is the RSPB.

I am with you on this one Bluebell.

It's not that long since families kept a pig and some hens in the garden.

It kept them from starvation.

This thread is about William and Kate not Meghan and Harry.

I'm sure that George is as informed as any seven year old can be about a country lifestyle. They have spent months at Anmer Hall during lockdown and the children are often spotted in Sandringham woods with W&K riding their bikes.

How lucky then that riding a bike in the woods is an 'approved' activity by those who really know very little about country living. Countryfile has a lot to answer for

I doubt William and Kate dragged George from his bed and forced him to watch a grouse shoot any more than our DS had a shotgun shoved in his hand and was told to, 'Get out there and shoot pigeons.'

It's not all 'Deliverance Country' out in the Boonies!

Ps well-fed cats, not killing birds for food.

To any cat owners on here: cats kill an estimated 27 million birds in the UK every spring and summer.

vegansrock

Desensitising children to animal cruelty is easily done. Doesn’t mean it’s good,

It was life for the family I lived with

Grinding poverty. No electricity. Running water was a tap outside. No proper toilets. Shower was a hose pipe slung over a wall.

There was really nothing good or bad about it

They needed to survive

Some days there was no food to eat at all

It was a different world.

Was she the huntress?
Hit the target.
(Dives for cover. I did like her)

Except it wasn't Meghan and Harry this time.
Harry gave up this kind of "sport" when he met her, as far as I know.

Any hunting is just wrong, but culling is different I think. I can’t imagine wanting to take a child to watch birds or animals shot or wanting to shoot them - and not always cleanly. ? ps Don’t get me started on Me Me Me-again and Harry ??

Just to say to Grannybags, I think it was, that grouse are not bred specially for shooting, they are naturally wild birds. I think you're thinking of pheasant which are specially bred for the sport.
Each to their own of course but unless you're a vegetarian please leave the shooting fraternity alone. Game has a better life than most farmed meat and it certainly has a better death than any animal that meets its end in an abattoir, especially one which performs any kind of ritual slaughter which is currently used for approximately 90% of poultry, 60+% of lamb and 30+% of beef slaughtered in the UK.
Game is also much leaner and better for you than farmed meat.

www.gamekeeperstrust.org.uk/media/uploads/cat-264/action-countryside-wales-crisis.pdf

Please read.

I have spent time on a grouse moor and know how dedicated the landowner and gamekeeper are to preservation.
They will rest the moor for a season at huge cost to preserve the wildlife.
The harriers are tagged and monitored, it’s a joy to see them.
Unless you have experienced a shoot and understand all the tradition and history it’s perhaps hard to compute that everyone involved is a nature lover.
The walkers would not have an accessible mor if it were not managed.
As I said in an earlier post a moor was allowed to go back to nature as an experiment to see if wildlife thrived.
It didn’t.
Moor management is vital.

perhaps read this link as well

www.independent.co.uk/environment/grouse-shooting-chris-packham-protected-species-shot-gamekeepers-scotland-a9028361.html