Kat 1989 asked:


My Nan’s garden backs on to a river, her garden is all fenced in with normal 6ft panels. She has a pond that was full of Koi Carp. Mink keep getting into the garden and eating all her fish. In the last year she has lost well over £500 worth. We have put nylon netting over the pond but the mink chew through it and carry on eating the fish! The environment agency say there’s nothing they can do but have advised us to trap them then shoot them, my Nan’s 80 I don’t have the heart to shoot them. I know it’s illegal to poison them, so what can we do? Please can some one help?
Sorry I should have said, we mentioned putting a wire net over the pond but she complained she wouldn’t be able to see the pond (fair enough I suppose!)