We live on a small island which is getting rather overcrowded. As we fight for space with other residents it is inevitable there will be some clashes.

Traditionally the answer has been simply to kill the animal either by hunting, shooting, gassing, poisoning, snaring or trapping. All barbaric and utterly unjustifiable! Our philosophy is that all creatures have a right to life and a right to live free from pain and suffering. No species has a more negative impact on it's surroundings than human beings. Without even trying we pollute and we kill. We have condemned thousands of species to extinction through our greed. And then we have the audacity to seek to kill an animal for digging holes in "our" garden!!

Wild animals were here long before us. Long before we drowned the land in concrete, long before we introduced other animals and called them pets. The animals which cause the most problems are usually introduced species - but for that we only have ourselves to blame as well. They are desperately trying to adapt and survive in what has become an alien environment. The very least we owe them is a little tolerance and understanding.

Victory attained by violence is tantamount to defeat for it is momentary
- Gandhi

So clearly this philosophy is largely behind our reasons for promoting humane alternatives to traditional pest control. But more than that, using our understanding of the species which commonly cause problems we know that killing them will never actually solve the problem. Other animals in the area will simply breed to replace any killed or removed.
 
Making the habitat unsuitable to the species in question...is a much more desirable and effective procedure for controlling the offending animals than just attempting to destroy or otherwise remove individual animals.
- BIOLOGICAL CONTROL OF VERTEBRATE PESTS, Walter E. Howard

Please follow the links above to read more detail about why lethal methods don't work and what you can try instead. In the meantime if you have any questions regarding humane wildlife deterrence which are not covered by these pages, please Email Us