[Jacob]

'and the reason you don't hear about it now is because it is being controlled.'

Controlling something doesn't make it go away. The Pidgeons, Rats et al still carry the diseases, so, even if they are being controlled we should still be hearing about deaths and shtuffs. But we don't. If you don't want Pidgeons nesting near you, do something about it, like put spikes or barbed wire someplace so the Pidgeons can't land. If you don't want Rats nesting, block up all holes and access routes to your house. If you don't want creatures attacking your garbage, put the garbage in a trashcan.

'Jacob when will you learn that you can't solve a problem by simply moving the source of the problem somewhere else?'

Okay, fine, move them and neuter them.

'It's just a form of target shooting. It's hardly "blowing the poor things head off".'

Well, fine. Putting a bullet in the poor things head.

'I want my ****ing garbage sacks to stay in ****ing tact'

Put it in a trashcan then. Don't go shooting the bastards just because they see a free meal. How would you feel if some free food was lying around for you and you went towards it, only to have someone shoot at you.

'I've also helped out some friends of mine with the extermination of a rabbit colony on their farm'

That's different, that's out in the wilds and interfering with those peoples livelihood. I don't condone it, but i understand why it must be done.

What do you do with the Rat bodies afterwards anyway?

'spend lots of money trying to deter them the "human way", or kill them off.'

By killing them off you don't solve the longterm problem.

'When I kill an animal, it probably doesn't actually have time to work out what it's hearing'

Ahh yes, because i forgot you know what the animal is hearing and feeling.

'However, homeless people, paedophiles, rapists, and murderers are all something that advancements in law enforcement and psychology can take care of.'

Paedophiles can't actually be cured. And they're more animal than anything you kill, so it's completly justified to hunt them down.

'Otherwise, I simply shoot on sight.'

Have a gun strapped to your arm, do you?

'There is nothing else you can do with them. If you move them into the wild, then they will simply attack and kill off the wildlife with disease.'

If we moved Rats away from the sewer in the first place, they might not be seething with so much disease.

'These days, I only have to shout "SHOO" out of my window on the very odd occasion.'

I'm sure if i said "Shoo" to a Rat it'd run away...i haven't killed one, just because you kill them doesn't mean they fear you anymore.

I can't see if i missed anymore points out, if i did, i'll come back and sort them out, but most of that post was you repeating yourself, can you try and cut down the repeated bits next time. Thanks.