I totally get where you are coming from. For the last ten years I have been fending off social workers (when I worked in children's social care) with 'problem' clients who would greatly benefit from experiencing the great outdoors. I have had 'friends' who just want a baby sitter for the weekend. Now I am involved with a homeless charity, I have drug addicts, ex cons and men with serious mental health problems wanting to come and 'help'. They have got to be kidding right? As most of you agree, our little bit of land and the animals on it, are part of our homes. We don't actually want them there, like we rarely, if ever, get invited to their homes.
I did the insurance get out, that put off the council, then to put others off I told them I would charge them £10 per hour per child, with a minimum time of ten hours
. That got rid of the hopes of most of the others. However, re the guys from the charity, I had to be a lot firmer. I told them in no circumstances would I allow the risk of them stealing from me to fund their various addictions, strangely this group took the refusal best.