For weeks we watched a spotted flycatcher tenant the garden like a summer guest. We didn't see the other birdwatcher – grey squirrel, magpie, cat? – plunder the nest. * We feed the cattle pelleted necrotics (dead animals' dried tissue, flesh and bone), inject them with steroids and antibiotics to keep the creatures alive till they're full-grown. * 'Coursing's fairer than gunshot, gas or snare.' When a greyhound grows too old, it's killed. But just before a pair of greyhounds tear a hare apart, the hare cries like a child. * Panda, orang utan, and polar bear – species can be at risk for a hundred years or more before we make them disappear. Pine marten, red squirrel, mountain hare…
* Wild animals lead strictly ordered lives; their freedom is a wild necessity. House animals are like children, husbands, wives, the kind of mindless beasts we used to be.
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