Rain still makes no impact either here or in our local gardens. Streams and springs have been dry for weeks now. There was no water for the sheep on Friday and they could have been without for some time before that. Checks on Sunday and Monday mornings confirmed nothing. By the afternoon the message had got through and help had arrived. Some will tell you that sheep are capable of surviving in hot dry areas and that this is where they originate from. Is that why they keep coming and looking for water? And the grazier does have a very long way to come so might be excused. But what about those who have responsibility for the wider policy of having livestock on this land? Is it really unreasonable to expect them to have some sort of role even as backup in the welfare of animals?
Sheffield Wildlife Trust are of course a
wildlife organisation so it's not their role. Well, erm, yes. That explains why they pursue such anti-wildlife policies does it not? And anyway the weekend is the weekend. And the core business is SWT itself - weekdays 9 to 5. And the local wisdom is that, whatever you do, sheep just die on you. That's all right then.
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