Defra Licence:

[Zimbabwe Boy]

I've been downloading and reading the general licenses and they all seem to be for birds. Nowhere does it mention and mammals such as Rats, Rabbits or Squirrels.

Is there another General License covering these? Does anyone have a link?

Cheers,
Shaun

[chippy]

I've been downloading and reading the general licenses and they all seem to be for birds. Nowhere does it mention and mammals such as Rats, Rabbits or Squirrels.

Is there another General License covering these? Does anyone have a link?

Cheers,
Shaun

these are all vermin and no license is needed m8

[Zimbabwe Boy]

Yep, I guessed that they may be classed as vermin, however I only found reference to Rabbits in the 1954 pest control act. I have no documentation that I can show to angry anti-shooting types that these are in fact classed as vermin. Are they actually vermin? Or do we all just go on anecdotal evidence ?

I'm looking for a link to a document that I can print out and show to the next tree-hugging, squirrel-loving liberal that shows that legally I am entitled to shoot any cute, fluffly, adorable little (grey) squirrel and rabbit that I may find on my land.

[chippy]

all you need is permission to be on the land,keep away from tree huggers and work within the law and they can do nothing but it is an offense to cause a person distress so walk away from trouble
except you could point out the gray tree rat has removed our red tree rat and is destroying trees..you could print out all the pages av and hand it to them to read for a while,that will keep them busy
chippy

[jonny.k]

all you need is permission to be on the land,keep away from tree huggers and work within the law and they can do nothing but it is an offense to cause a person distress so walk away from trouble
except you could point out the gray tree rat has removed our red tree rat and is destroying trees..you could print out all the pages av and hand it to them to read for a while,that will keep them busy
chippy

I didn't know tree huggers could READ,

[danro]

Yep, I guessed that they may be classed as vermin, however I only found reference to Rabbits in the 1954 pest control act. I have no documentation that I can show to angry anti-shooting types that these are in fact classed as vermin. Are they actually vermin? Or do we all just go on anecdotal evidence ?

I'm looking for a link to a document that I can print out and show to the next tree-hugging, squirrel-loving liberal that shows that legally I am entitled to shoot any cute, fluffly, adorable little (grey) squirrel and rabbit that I may find on my land.

Hows this...
General Alliance

It should have all you need
Grey Squizzer
Rats
Rabbits
.. and the birds...

HTH

Danny

[Empiretest]

Thank you Dannro. That General Licence 'Omnibus' is brilliant. All we want in one place.I am going to print it out and bombard the neighbours, but it is about 30 pages! so perhaps I will print out when needed. But thanks anyway.
bill

[lizard223]

Good info

thanks

[muckybutt]

Handy to have these, all helps when getting permissions I suppose....cheers for the link