Reacting to the UK's CRAZIEST animal laws
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- čas přidán 2. 06. 2024
- Who knew the UK is full of some really strange laws around animals! Cats free to roam, hedgehogs legally protected and you can't ride a horse drunk? Wild!
As a Canadian living in the UK, I had no idea Britain had so many weird laws!
0:00 what are we doing today?
0:28 barking
1:45 little hedgies
3:21 cows! look!
4:49 dogs vs cats
7:13 driving tests
9:18 taxis vs dogs
9:47 the royals
10:37 poop bags lol
11:37 dogs in cars
12:47 pigggggs
13:30 don't be suspicious
14:14 dogs vs livestock
15:12 don't drink... and ride
16:12 whales, sturgeons and swans, oh my!
18:23 this video is so dark lol
19:27 badger baiting
21:15 squirrel rights
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Hey! I'm Alanna - a thirty-something documenting my life as a Canadian living in England.
I share the ups and downs of an expat living abroad and what it's really like living in the UK. It's not always easy, but there's been so many wonderful experiences, too. I post a CZcams video every Tuesday plus an additional video every Saturday on Patreon + YT Memberships. I also livestream every Wednesday and Sunday at 5:30pm GMT/BST on Twitch.
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Have you ever seen a wild hedgehog?? 🦔 I literally cannot wait until I see one myself 🥰
No! But there are plenty of grey squirrels in the garden! 🙂
Yes
seen loads of wild hedgehogs keep haveingto move them of the road at night and put them in the park
Hedgehogs were very common in 60-70s UK when I was growing up but I rarely ever see one now. The last time I saw one was in Prague 2006 on holiday which really surprised me!!
Loads!!
Dogs have owners, cats have staff.
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Ha. well, this is news. I always assumed it was because cats were thought of as retarded and untrainable, so they couldn't be held responsible for their own actions (and thus their owners followed the same).
Prisoner 1 “What are you in for?”
Prisoner 2 “Armed robbery. You?”
Prisoner 1 “Handling salmon suspiciously.”
In Scotland they've released pine martens, which are natural predators of grey squirrels. Apparently the grey squirrels take one look at a pine marten and nope out and LEAVE THE AREA and then red squirrels move in. Red squirrels evolved alongside pine martens, so they tend to just find a small branch and laugh at the much heavier pine marten.
When a dog is 'worrying' livestock, the word worrying, in this instance actually means biting and shaking. Actually causing direct physical injury.
My parrot worries sheep, keeps saying Mint sauce
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You know what they say,
'The old ones are ...
Old'
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you dont own a cat, a cat owns you
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Dogs have owners, cats have staff.
Cats don't have owners - they have staff. I speak with some authority because I'm butler-in-chief to mine... sorry, that is to say the cat whom I brought home as a kitten, and after carrying out a detailed inspection upon arrival, declared "it'll do as somewhere to base my operations - for the time being." Luckily, he's decided to stay - so far. I can also say with some authority that cats fall prey to many illnesses - but insomnia isn't one of them.
Absolutely true!
@@Canalcoholic💯%! Half the time my cat’s yowling I’m expected to guess why.
The grey squirrel has a title here as well Alanna, it's title is tree rat! they're considered a harmful pest, partly responsible for the drastic decline in the numbers of the native red squirrel. Btw, if your dog is worrying livestock, the farmer is within his rights to shoot it.
I told my friend that, but she wouldn't believe me
@@paulguise698 I was dog-sitting for a friend once and decided to take him for a walk. We were on a public footpath but ended up wandering the wrong way, next a field of cows. A farmer zoomed up in a tractor (green John Deere of course) with a border collie and a rifle. Threatened to shoot the dog and set the collie on me if we didn’t stop worrying his animals. He only calmed down when pointed out I wasn’t in his field and I was walking a toy poodle, not a collie. What outcome was going to distress his cattle more?
I live next to a small woods in Inverness and we see red squirrels in the garden sometimes. No grey suirrels here.
To be fair it is actually the squirrel population that explodes, not the squirrel itself.
Growing up in the 70s, I used to see hedgehogs all the time. I can’t remember the last time I saw one.
Over 80% decline in the last decade 😢
❤ from Northeast England ❤️
Really? I’ve seen them in my garden a couple times but that’s about it 😔
@shanellemurrey9300
Aye, they used to be everywhere
I've not seen one for real for a long time now, often used to see them scurrying about at night and also sadly splattered on the road too.
I still see a fair few in Hampshire. It's just unfortunate that the majority of them are two dimensional.
01:20 Anyone remember Hedgehog Crisps?
moral of the story: If you take your livestock to Wetherspoons, be sure to have a designated drover.
I feel blessed having a hedgehog visit my garden.
There is talk about reintroducing pine martens in Britain as a form of grey squirrel control.
I'm in Ibiza and got stopped by police last year asking to see:
-the dog's collar tag with tel no.s
-a bottle of disinfectant/vinagre
-poop bags
AND.... the dog's DNA certificate. They introduced a program to register all resident dogs' DNA sample, so that any unclaimed poo could be attributed to the specific guilty canine and then fined.
There are numerous laws relating to haggis here in Scotland, especially the protection of wild haggis
You cannot enter a haggis reservation with an open can of Tennents or bottle of cheap blended scotch as the smell can drive them into a killing frenzy
My uncle Hamish once entered the haggis reservation by Loch Ness with an open bottle of Bells. They only found his sporran
You see, most only know of the small, mostly harmless lowland hill haggis. The Highland Giant haggis and the giant loch haggis are much larger and, as your poor uncle Hamish discovered, quite deadly. This is why wild haggis reserves are usually fenced off.
Is it true that their left legs are shorter than the right ones, apparently it's something to do with them walking around Ben Nevis. 🤣😂
If you put a dish out with Buckfast in it, you might get to see one in the very early morning.
Forgive 🙏, 2nd generation Scottish 😂
@@everestyeti For the lowland hill haggis and the highland giant haggis, yes.
Thank you
I sometimes end my sentence talking like a cat, don't ask meow.
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Where I used to live, we had a whole family of hedgehogs living underneath our shed. There was a reasonable sized gap under the shed floor and the ground and they'd moved in so we saw them regularly. They're feisty buggers at the best of times - they curl up at the earliest opportunity and run like hell when they feel threatened... smart little critters! :D
We Brits do love our animals and will pass any law however crazy to protect them. Dogs are our friends and cats are our cute & furry overlords. 🐈🐕😍😍😍
Didn’t pit bulls just get the boot last year?
@@lovey980 That was XL bullies. Woman was just killed by hers on Monday.
Great video! I'm surprised that you've never seen a wild hedgehog, I've seen plenty of them here in Cheshire, hanging out at the side of the road. I was surprised by the pictures you showed, though, the ones I've seen are rather flat and don't appear to be very active. Weird!
We used to have a lot of hedgehogs. Now people put up garden fences it stops the hedgehogs from moving around. I haven't had a hedgehog in my garden for years. There's no way for one to reach it. Hedgehog holes in fences should be mandatory.
Hedgehogs climb fences, at the top the roll up and drop 7ft and land on their spikes cushioning the fall. True.
I’m in Wigan, Lancashire. My dog, Molly, reached 13 before she realised she could bark. Now she barks at everything.
10 shillings is 50 pence. But with the decrease in the value of money, 10 shillings was of the same order of magnitude as a labourer's weekly wage in the latter part of the nineteenth century.
Some cats fall under the law now, years ago my neighbour owned a puma which escaped a couple of times. In court he asserted that if you had a GLC flat which prohibited having a dog but you could have a cat. In this respect he correctly asserted that at the time you could legally have an adult Siberian Tiger in your flat. He won the case.
Drop in any night and you'll see Mr & Mrs HedgePig and their brood scouring our lawn for food. The little buggers set off the security lights so we always know when they arrive.
I live on the Isle of Wight which is pretty much the last remaining habitat for Red Squirrels so I understand why the fuss about the Greys.
Lake District, Northumberland, Brownsea Island ... all have red squirrels.
Ahem. Scotland...
Came home once to see a hedgehog the size of a football in my kitchen. Who the f*CK let a hedgehog in?no-one admitted it. All the doors were shut. Never found out how it got in.
Picked the lock with one of its spines.
I often see wild hedgehogs here in Oxfordshire, but it's always a treat. I love the snorting snuffling noises they make! They're surprisingly quick on their feet
There are quite a few hedgehog rescues in Kent. You might want to see if any have open days so you can get to see some
Hedgehogs used to be quite common - haven't seen one in years!😐 Team cat!
10 shillings =50p
That's now, in 1860 it was worth a lot more, about £80.00 in todays money.
10 Bob
@@CovBloke1310ah reminds me of the old joke " bent as a 9 bob note".
I found this which i think shows better how much it would of been "Well with 10 shillings I could go see a a top flight football match, go fishing, go to the pub for a night out and have fish and chips on the way home and still have change in my pocket"
12. Fenton!!
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Jesus Christ, NO!
Always had cats as pets. Team Cat.
The reason for making a dog bark is that it can be very frightening to have to a dog threatening you! Note Police dogs trained to bark on demand! A legal exception
I'm fairly sure cats are treated differently because they are not considered fully domesticated.
They are also neither livestock nor working animals (which all dogs are considered to be for historical reasons). Cats are just choosing to live with us for the time being so are not our responsibility.
Got an old lady cat I’ve had for 18 years and counting. She is definitely not fully domesticated, nor able to be.
As someone who has over the years had 13 cats, it's not because they can't be domesticated, it's because they don't care!
I love your style of presentation. Very funny. Yes, I have seen hedgehogs in he wild but they are certainly getting rarer these days. I've also seen badgers both live and lots of dead ones on the roadside.
Hey alanna, not really a relevant comment - just wanted to say I found your channel a few months ago and I love your videos! So, thanks and keep going! Ps: burial berth 😂 but also dogs dying 💔
My friends have a garden room, which, when one visits, you will be sharing with visiting hedgehogs, which wander in and out partaking of a bowl of pet food, along with a dish of water. These are wild hedgehogs, which are not the first hog families to have visited. It's a little bit strange, but it is funny the way the cat watches them, and also accepts it.
What got me was your surprise about the taxi and rabid dogs. Is rabies common in Canada? Here in the UK we are very against any animal who may or may not have contracted rabies. We have strict border controls at points of entry to Britain where an animal can be taken and put into quarantine (at your expense) until it is definitely clear of diseases. Unfortunately this only applies to honest owners and not to the bastards who smuggle animals into the country. We are proud of being rabies free and would like to keep it that way as rabies is easily transferred to humans and it's not a very pleasant sickness.
Team cat here.
Still love them, in spite of the fact that they caused the extinction of the Stephen's Island Wren - a story which is often exaggerated to lay the blame on a single cat for the extinction of the entire species.
True story: my first ever job involved working with some of the largest cats in the world - as I had a seasonal job at Whipsnade Zoo.
Whoops ! I have ridden a drunk horse (Had to drag him out of the pub)
Oughhh no... that was painful 😂
❤ from Northeast England ❤️
The barman said "Why the long face?"
hedgehogs are actually the opposite of parliament.
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The herding of cattle law - dont forget before railways & refrigeration were able to bring fresk milk into the cities, milking cows were kept in/very close to cities - so in that context the law makes common sense.
Driving Test - it would also very much depend where you pulled up rather than stopping itself.
Regarding being drunk in charge of animals, one of my uncles was a dairyman and delivered milk by a horse drawn milk cart (many many years ago). After he had finished his rounds it wasn’t unknown for him to frequent a pub (leaving his horse and cart outside the pub). When he had had his fill of ale he would come out and get up on the cart (not really able to drive) and his horse would take him home (a few miles down country lanes).
Dogs have owners, cats have staff. The cat adopts its staff.
I live in my apartment by the grace of the resident cat - funnily enough I thought it was the other way around when I adopted her... the more you know!
She likes to have me move seats so that she can absorb the warmth. She tells me when she thinks I should go to bed.... She's the most vocal cat I know... worse than my mother used to be!!
Cat person here..😸..don't forget Swans are the property of the Crown ...and it's illegal to eat sausages with a spoon on Fridays ....OK that maybe isn't true or is it ??
Interesting video there love, lots of laws I didn't know about. 👍🏻
Hi Alanna,your research abilities never cease to amaze me and the result is very entertaining which then leads to a chuckle or two or even more.Thank you for rounding off my early evening viewing it was very enjoyable.cheers.Roly🇬🇧.
We get badgers in our urban back garden every night and there are such things as pet cemeteries, there's one near us in Essex.
Regarding driving tests. Cat's could never drive...they're not able to reach the pedals 😂. Dogs, however, just aren't clever enough to learn. They'd be too busy looking for food and water 😂.
Thanks for sharing. Have a wonderful day. ❤
Great video Alanna! I have been lucky enough to have seen a few wild hedgehogs. Plus I am team dog :-)
This content owns me, thank you for this craziness.
As an animal lover, I was slightly traumatised when a juvenile grey squirrel was brought to our vet clinic, and I was told I had to put it to sleep. The poor thing was terrified 😢 I get why, and I LOVE red squirrels, but it was still sad.
Old money...1 pound was 240 pennies or 20 shillings, 10 shillings was 120 pennies, so the nearest modern equivalent would be a fine of 50 pence for driving cattle through a metropolitan area between the prohibited hours...scary....😂 great fun and interesting post as always, Alanna, thank you👍
Rabbits. The Pests act 1954 "The occupier of any land in a rabbit clearance area shall take such steps as may from time to time be necessary for the killing or taking of wild rabbits living on or resorting to the land" This applies to most of England and Wales and includes gardens!
I'm a dog person too, Alanna. Really like that top you are wearing, btw.
Tree rats and crows are a right pain as they dig up all your flower beds in Spring. Did you mention protected bats? They can throw a spanner in the works for builders. Seagulls can also be a real nuisance for coastal town residents.
HEDGEHOG SPOTTING TIP- If you place an old broom head in the corner of your garden with some red lipstick on it, the more dopey hedgehogs and the ones with bad eyesight will try to take it on a date to the saucer of cat food you have placed in the middle of the lawn.
We tend to get hedge hogs roaming around here in Oxfordshire. I caught one in a bucket in our back garden and took him out to someplace safe outside of our garden. Our dog would have had it otherwise, and didn't need that drama. Didn't go out of my way to catch it, so hope that was ok.
I like how we have to import a Canadian, to educate us Brits !
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bloody hell, there's a Mummy hedgehog living under my shed. I'd better get her to sign something saying she's there voluntarily!
We have a long history with badgers 😂😂😂😂😂 why did i straight away ,think of Bodger the Badger 😂😂😂😂😂😂
Mashed potato!!!!
@@simonmeadows7961 you fudge , I'd only just got that song out of my head 😂 😂 😂
@@simonmeadows7961 p.s. now we ve just gotto get Alanna singing it !!!!
If my neighbours kept pigs, I don't think it would be their visibility that would be the problem! Great video, Alanna. It made me laugh the way it kept coming back to death and destruction.
I haven't seen a red squirrel in England in over 40 years. I think the red squirrel has been pushed into Scotland with none left anywhere else because of the Grey.
Brownsea Island in Poole harbour is famous for its red squirrels.
There is a small wooded 'sanctuary' in Formby? Liverpool, where they run wild. Speaking to the Rangers, they have a full time job keeping the greys at bay.
I had one come into my bedroom through the open window 2 days ago. (Isle of Wight)
Normally see at least one in the garden most days if i'm at home. Even mid winter a sunny day brings them out.
There are still reds in Whinfell Forest to the east of Penrith in Cumbria, where Center Parcs is.
I’m a dog person 🦮 golden retrievers are my favourite dog breed and when I was younger I had a hedgehog 🦔 as a pet
Fun fact: if you're granted the keys to the city you're allowed to circumvent that rule about not driving cattle. Footballer Ian Wright was / is allowed to drive cattle through London because of his award.
I see hedgehogs and badgers every night in the spring and summer months from my lounge and or bedroom window of my 1st floor flat. The block is built next to vast untouched field with brambles, a few swamps and grass as tall as skyscrapers. Foxes are very common around the estate as well. After 2200 hours, the estate is dead and silent and its then badgers, hedgehogs and rats the size of tanks like to come out and play. So cute.
It's not uncommon in some rural areas in the UK to be driving along and then have to stop because there's livestock (such as cattle) being walked along or across the road from one field to another. I don't know if they adhere to the timings in that law though 😅
Team DOG, best creatures on planet earth 🐕🐕🐕
I am a member of the "Feline Revolutionary Council" and I am appealed by the level of anti-cat discrimination in this video!
I belong to the Cows Rights Council, Cows should have the Right to Vote, Get a job and be paid for their work, Cows are people, and be treated the same as any other person under the law.
I hope you mean 'appalled'
A hedgehog visited our backyard a few years back, but it was dark and everyone freaked out. On that note, did I imagine that Hedgehog flavored chips were on sale in the UK some years ago ? Assuming they were, there are a few things to unpack here like how did the folks that made or ate them even know they tasted of Hedgehog ? 😂
They were, If by some years you mean about 30-35 ... They do taste of Hedgehog
They tasted awful.
@@Alex.H.B.1970something I didn't say hedgehog tasted good, just they tasted of hedgehog ...
My wife and I take on elderly cats with health issues, our current master is a very elusive and charming three legged Ginger. He looks very handsome and purrs allot, until that is when he gets onto the Vets table, when he grows an extra leg. So much so he's got a red flag warning on his notes, that my boy take no prisoners. 😂🤣
Hedgehogs used to be very common, they were every ware but now now. I recently saw a dead one in the road, this is how most of them end up.
Alanna, about UK Grey Squirrels - "Squirrels don't really have a lot of natural predators... ...so the squirrels just explode"
Does exploding a grey squirrel count as humanely destroying it???
I didn't know about restraining the dog. I've not had a dog when I lived in UK but I did visit with a dog once. It looks like there are no such laws in Hungary or Croatia as I used to cross that border regularly with my dog. The border police always asked for the dog passport but never said anything about crates or other forms of restraint.
Now and again we see hedgehogs down our terrace, this is middle of a city, urban area, but there is a parked area nearby
I have a hedgehog that visits the back garden most nights
See alanna hasn't got the british pronunciation of squirrel down yet. Great vid as always.
... and yet still no law against cats crapping all over my lawns.
Yes, if you deviate or swerve to miss an animal that runs across your path whilst driving on test you will fail. Luckily it happened whilst under instruction, but a pheasant scuttled across the road, I took evasive action (instinct). I was berated by the instr & told I would of failed my test. I thought I would of been praised for my swift reaction!!!
'would have' not 'would of'
Part of the reason that there are no restrictions on cats worrying livestock is that cats simply aren't big enough to do any damage. A large domestic dog can kill a sheep, and can panic the rest of the flock to the extent that they might injure themselves, or miscarry if pregnant. Cat's can't.
Since you asked so nicely...I'm very much team Cat.
Cats have better lawyers
I hate gardening. My garden looks like a war zone. The upside is that it is ideal habitat for hedgehogs and other wildlife. A hedgehog regularly snuffles (they make this perculiar sound as they go) its way past our back door at twilight on its way to a nights forraging.
Ha! The more you know, for sure. Cheers from the Pacific West Coast of Canada.
I grew up with a dog and two cats, since the pandemic so many people got dogs and soooo many people were not prepared to train and discipline their dogs appropriately. There has been an explosion of dangerous breeds, bread dangerously! By which I mean that they are inter-bread to a dangerous degree. Even if you have a sensible dog, you are likely to come across a psychopath dog that will be drawn to your dog and also you. If the owner is incompetent or unprepared the consequences can be heartbreaking
Dogs are definitely into bread, especially with peanut butter spread on it.
Some of these laws are absolutely wild! The video title is correct.
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Also illegal to ride a bicycle drunk, although there's no specific numerical limit.
In the UK it can be difficult to get a taxi with a dog. Even guide dogs. A lot of drivers will not take dogs for religious reasons. A set is a den or burrow.
In medieval times most houses, even in cities, had pigs, there to eat waste outside the front door in the main street. Gladstone's Land, a 16th century house in Edinburgh owned be the National Trust for Scotland, has a fibreglass pig outside to show what this would have looked like, fortunately not smells like.
Thank you for actually fact-checking and providing context!!
Regarding squirrel predators -- I'd never seen a fox before moving to the UK, but I see one in London probably at least once a month. But maybe they are actually more rare outside the city center?
And foxes were introduced to this country by William I for hunting.
I was very excited when I discovered a hedgehog 🦔 was living under a very large shrub in an unfenced part of my garden, which had a lot of dry fallen leaves under it, probably an ideal habitat for these shy creatures; I only realised it/they were there when I decided to remove said fallen leaves, but when I realised it was home to one or more hedgehogs I left well alone ❤️😀.
1:35 A "barkbecue" presumably...
Team Cat. Hedgehogs eat my cats food!
If a hunt suddenly crosses your path .... even with a 125 mph train .... the hunt is NEVER in the wrong.
In Canada, squirrels are a “fur bearing species,” which means you need a trappers license to kill them. Which our Air Cadet squadron discovered after eating some on a survival trip, and writing about the trip for the the newspaper!
I feel like the thing about being responsible for the behaviour of a dog makes sense, because people can train their dogs to be violent. While that may not be completely impossible for cats, it is unlikely. Also you can train dogs with recall etc and again at the very least you can't do that with every cat. Also you don't hear a lot of issues with cats harming humans (again not impossible) or large (ie valuable) animals. Like dogs can harm a farm animal that is part of someone's livelihood. Whereas cats are of course a danger to various wild animals (birds, squirrels, baby bunnies) but those don't tend to belong to an individual human. I guess the main thing is they can harm other cats (but even that is generally injury, not death). And like you said, cats can roam anywhere (in the UK) so it would also be impossible to control, whereas as generally speaking dogs are contained in one way or another.
Fun fact: The Hedgehogs kept as pets are not the same as the European Hedgehog. If you keep one of those as a pet (and why would you want to?) then you will find yourself in a bit of trouble if you're found out, as you will be with most wild animals that are taken from their natural habitat. The Hedgehogs you can keep as pets (again, why would you want to?) come from the African continent.
My parents had badgers in their garden in Kent and they are a pain to say the least as they dig it up plus you can’t do anything about them. You can try to deter them by using CDs on string but not very effective :) they also had foxes too. You see hedgehogs in Kent quite commonly but they are nocturnal so you have to look for them at night.
The Lancashire dog barking thing is only on the coast, apparently. Which bit of the coast I have no idea but I suspect it's a specific local law. It's ok to incite one to bark, however, if instructed to do so by a police officer. Now I'm wondering why a police officer would issue such an instruction.