Losses could hardly be much worse than those already sustained from foxes, stoats, rats, otters and pike.
If new clause 11 is agreed to, stoats, weasels, wild boar and mink will remain covered by part 2, plus any other quarry species.
One season's figures were: rabbits, 9,240; stoats, 28; cats, 25; hedgehogs, 12; birds, 312.
It becomes a prey to starvation and eventually may be taken by a stoat—a far worse death, possibly, than death by coursing.
Two days later, she found the trap in the same neighbourhood—with the stoat still alive.
She went home for assistance, but when she came back she was unable to find the trap or the stoat.
The small birds are preyed upon by the larger ones and by the less pleasant of our animal friends, such as the stoat and weasel.
Of course, there would be plenty of wildlife but of a different variety—bats, stoats and weasels.
