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[earth-thrower 493]

He didn't start off with good intentions.

 

He needed a vehicle for his ego, and a public 'presence' helps sell books, DVD's and training courses

 

I still can't get over their president putting up a film of himself training his dog to catch moles Talk about incriminating yourself

"possibly a wee bit naive", Phil said,.....i can say the same, about myself,.....although i cant be that daft,cause i instinctively wasnt persuaded to join any of them ! ha ha

[earth-thrower 493]

I wonder if Jeff will ever come on here, in response, to any of the criticism, he gets ? lol or even Brian & Simon, is it ? from the register ?

[Matt 160]

I wonder if Jeff will ever come on here, in response, to any of the criticism, he gets ? lol or even Brian & Simon, is it ? from the register ?

 

Jeff will never come on here

 

He's too scared after the humiliation he received when he was on the BTMR forum

 

Like Phil, I joined when the Guild first started. I spoke to JN a few times and kept asking about the decision making process within the Guild. He was very vague about it all, and got very touchy when I asked if he was going to set up a forum on the GBM site to give members the opportunity to discuss issues. I think his exact words were something along the lines of:

 

"I don't like forums. People just ague with me"

 

Says it all really

 

There are lots of issues he could have campaigned for. Getting burrow blasters banned from the UK would be a hell of a popular thing to do and would undoubtedly be better from a welfare point of view Sadly, he has a fixation with daily trap checking despite the fact that he cannot present one single scrap of evidence that it would improve the welfare of moles, or the viability of molecatching for a living

[earth-thrower 493]

 

I wonder if Jeff will ever come on here, in response, to any of the criticism, he gets ? lol or even Brian & Simon, is it ? from the register ?

 

Jeff will never come on here

 

He's too scared after the humiliation he received when he was on the BTMR forum

 

Like Phil, I joined when the Guild first started. I spoke to JN a few times and kept asking about the decision making process within the Guild. He was very vague about it all, and got very touchy when I asked if he was going to set up a forum on the GBM site to give members the opportunity to discuss issues. I think his exact words were something along the lines of:

 

"I don't like forums. People just ague with me"

 

Says it all really

 

There are lots of issues he could have campaigned for. Getting burrow blasters banned from the UK would be a hell of a popular thing to do and would undoubtedly be better from a welfare point of view Sadly, he has a fixation with daily trap checking despite the fact that he cannot present one single scrap of evidence that it would improve the welfare of moles, or the viability of molecatching for a living

 

Couldnt agree more, with all the points you made, in that last paragraph, there,....i bet, they all look in here, from time to time,though ? lol

[Mr Wasp 187]

 

He didn't start off with good intentions.

 

He needed a vehicle for his ego, and a public 'presence' helps sell books, DVD's and training courses

 

I still can't get over their president putting up a film of himself training his dog to catch moles Talk about incriminating yourself

"possibly a wee bit naive", Phil said,.....i can say the same, about myself,.....although i cant be that daft,cause i instinctively wasnt persuaded to join any of them ! ha ha

 

 

At the very least some of the other groups have been taking a stand against JN

We fought a brave fight not long ago and got the NPTA to drop him like a hot stone. They were endorsing the daft kunt until, well, errrm, a stick was poked through the spokes.

Members of various sites/groups were asked to partake in a poll, asking their opinion on daily trap checking (against/for). The results were as you can predict yourself.

Interestingly a lot of the guild members werent entirley convinced about the daily trap checks. Whoed have thunk it

[Matt 160]

Part of the trouble is that when all these newly trained molecatchers are clamouring for work, they think that they need a web presence, and join everything they can find online that advertises them Even if that does mean a little 'white lie' about how often they check their traps

 

I've joined them all at one time or another, and there's only one site online that's ever got me any real volume of work, and that's Molecatcher UK.

 

The NPTA were led up the garden path by JN, and sadly, some of the people involved with the NPTA didn't really understand the implications of what was going on

 

Happily, common sense prevailed (with a little help from a noisy few of us), and as you say, they dropped the Guild faster than a Bristol Whore drops her knickers.

[J Darcy 5,871]

Part of the trouble is that when all these newly trained molecatchers are clamouring for work, they think that they need a web presence, and join everything they can find online that advertises them Even if that does mean a little 'white lie' about how often they check their traps

 

I've joined them all at one time or another, and there's only one site online that's ever got me any real volume of work, and that's Molecatcher UK.

 

The NPTA were led up the garden path by JN, and sadly, some of the people involved with the NPTA didn't really understand the implications of what was going on

 

Happily, common sense prevailed (with a little help from a noisy few of us), and as you say, they dropped the Guild faster than a Bristol Whore drops her knickers.

Alls well that ends well then Matt. If that JN understood moles then he would not be campaigning for daily checks. It's like these who say the moles should be live trapped; they have little or no understanding of them.