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I'm looking to buy my husband a lamp - my daughters' often go out with him so he has someone else there to hold the lamp..i saw ones that seem to attach to the front of the gun. I've looked through on line catalgues etc..but not sure what to choose. Can anyone help?
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Glad they phoned you..they are a great home for the right pup..but it has to be a bitch, their male Border Terrier wont have another dog in the house. If anyone hears of a bitch pup i'd really appreciate the nod. Thanks.
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Must be rough coated first cross..in Scotland but willing to travel down to Leeds area - furthest. Must be bitch. Country home offered with lots of land/other dogs/horses etc.
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Is the breeder aware that you have bred from your bitch so early? HWVs are a breed that are late to fully mature..she is very young to have the burden of puppies. Its also against the breeders code of the HWV association to take puppies from such a young bitch.
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Redmoor you are a treasure thank you so much for the advice . I will keep you updated
You are more than welcome..anytime..have a good Christmas.
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My most recent weakness is deliberatly annoying the terminally miserable
It seems to have worked!!
My weakness is hiking boots and leather wellies.
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I wonder if it could be a form of necrotizing fasciitis - obviously in humans they dont bite/tear at their own skin or self mutilate as such, but it might be a thought?
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Bought husband a new Barbour (Berwick Endurance..good deal from John Norris - Pentrith), Barbour shirt and a new leather catridge belt - have also organised a shooting day up North for January 2nd for him. Girls are getting girly things..ghd's, wii etc and i have no idea what's in my stocking..
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I have seen something similiar about 8/9y ago with a farm JRT who ate through her own belly - she made a real mess of herself but we were able to save her. Nothing could be found that explained this self mutilation..but it later transpired that she had run through pesticides...we had a Collie from the same farm do the same thing 3w later..it was put down to the pesticides...he was destoyed due to the severity of his injuries.
It sounds either like a contact problem or something that they have eaten and is making its way around the body and causing an irritant?
Poor dogs..what a terrible way to go.
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There notorious pluckers tracey and it could quite literally have been anything that triggered it off. Problem with them once they start they seldom stop . There very intelligent buggers but are like kids in many ways with there strops and mood swings . I have a sun conure and she`s a right madam lol. Redmoor good advice given mate . Hope you get it sorted tracey keep us posted atb FV
Ohhh, a Sun Conure, they are soooo pretty..but yes, usually stroppy buggers!!
Its rare to find the actual root cause of plucking, its thought that as they pluck/self mutilate that they get a release of endorphins..so as opposed to it distressing them..they can and do get a 'high' from it. We have had birds come in here that have been self mutilators and ones that have made a hole in their own legs and have drunk the blood..nasty. 
Feel free to pm me anytime, i'll help if i can.
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Hi, i work with parrots and specialise in their behaviour etc. Keep your parrot dampened down..one of the best things to dissuade plucking is to keep the parrot sprayed down during light hours..dont spray him near to when he would normally begin to roost. You may never find the reason why he began plucking but breaking the 'habit' is the key..use 5mls of Listerine (must be the yellow original one) to 1 litre of hot water...spray him with this and it will help..spray as many times throughout the day as you can..heating the water/listerine mix in the microwave so that the water is hot..as its sprayed it naturally will cool..you dont want blasting him with cold water. Unless your parrot has been outside its highly unlikely to be mites..if you take him to the Vet make sure they dont just stick Ivermectin on him..this seems to be the standard 'treatment' for pluckers..and very, very rarely is it ever mites. If you are going to take him to a vet..make sure its a specially qualified avian vet..otherwise you are just throwing away good money..most small animal vets have no idea about parrots.
Here some pics of a parrot we had in recently as a rescue...
Before...
After 7weeks...
If i can give you any help, please dont hesitate to pm me..or reply on here..i will check back later.
Oooops...a couple of questions...
Is the parrot on a varied diet..does he get chicken bones etc for added calcium..or do you give calcium/multi-vitamin supplements?
Is he a he or a she? Is he/she DNA sexed or surgically sexed?
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Wee update..Gill's fundraising total - including the online amount is now £8,000. We still have two more fundraisers to do in the New Year..which we are hoping will take the amount over £10k. She now only has one more chemo session to go and is doing incredibly well.
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Sorry to read this..cancer is so cruel and so indescrimate. My mum had ovarian back in 2000 - thansk to a great team of Docs and chemo she is still here to tell the tale..i had a run in with it last year and my friend currently has breast cancer..there is no-one out there that you speak to who doesnt know someone affected. Thoughts to you and your friend.
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vermin need to be controlled,shame they are being shot though,not sporting if you ask me
Why control vermin (foxes) in an area where they are killing rabbits and not affecting livestock/ground birds though?
Why control the rabbits ie kill them in your area/ Ad before you ssay you use them for foood its so m,uch easier to pop down to tesco so why not just dio that then everyone can stiop going hunting and the antis will have won yeyyy
That's the kind of juvenile response i hoped wouldnt happen. Grow up.
Thanks for all the sensible input, its been an interesting read. Cheers.
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Each to their own..wouldnt be for me or mine though.
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After what I experienced what my old bitch went through, I couldn't imagine "humanely" euthing an animal ever again. To each his own however.
Lets look at some basic figures ... on here, there are roughly 10,000 members, and probably half that (5,000) are active, posting members. Lets assume that in a 5 year period, each active member would have to put an animal down, or assist a close loved one in putting one of their pets down. Using your statistics of 1 or 2 "very difficult" euth'ing, that gives us between 50-100 "bad euth's just in our little test group. If you said 1 in 10,000 or million or some other figure, it would be one thing. But 1 or 2 out of 100? Not very good odds for a "good" euthanasia experience IMO.
Even a 'difficult' euthanasia..ie one which a vein is not strong enough to take the Euthatal..the putting to sleep can still be done well within the boundaries of humanely with careful care from the vet. Its a fact of life that sick or very old dogs do not have sufficient blood pressure sometimes to use a vein. An animal in these circumstances given a sedative and euthanased via the heart or kidneys is not in my mind not humane. Shooting him in the head, in my honest opinon is not the way to go.
Hey ho..each to their own.
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Can you check her pupils..do they react to light ok? Is the conjunctiva in each eye red and inflamed? Pull the skin up to reveal the white part of her eye..is this nice and white or red? All these things would be indicators of an eye infection/foreign body in the eye. She has maybe just stuck her face in something that her eyes are reacting to. Cold tea bags squeezed over both eyes can help.
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How i see it is like this.......
Farmer has givien me permision to shoot foxes. (there is a reason for this)
I will then shoot the foxes on the land. I will not think about how cruel, how weak it is, etc.....
I believe shooting them is far to easy, and all my fox killing use to be with the dogs, but hey ho!!!
Fox's will then be removed as per usual.
exactly my point, there was no thought to this when hunting with dogs was banned, no one who shoots a fox thinks 'ah that one looks healthy, ill leave it alone' and why should they? the government and antis wanted it this way and this is the way they got it now they have to live with it, i'm not losing no sleep over a few foxes.Clapper, fair point..the governement and the antis have not improved anything..quite the reverse. I just personally couldnt kill for killings sake. We eat what is shot..pigeons, rabbits etc..i would shoot something that was causing a problem, within the realms of the law of course, but would i go along to the farm where i take the dogs (we have permission to shoot there too) and take out a fox..no...neither would my husband..if he sees the foxes at the farm he leaves them well alone.
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Hmmmm..but surely they fit into the British countryside and will live by the same rules as Badger (whoch obviously arent allowed to be killed) and survival of the fittest in rural areas (urban foxes are completely different) would happen anyway. Sorry, i just have a problem with killing something for no good reason. To my mind, that fox today was killed purely and utterly because he was in the wrong place at the wrong time.
At risk of sounding like a bunny hugger..i hate killing purely for the sake of it..as i said before i have no problem with foxes on the estate where my husband shoots being taken out, i have seen the damage they do, but i hate this type of shooter who kills and then walks off..or worse..wounds..and then walks off.
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I have seen hounds shot at the kennels, thats just the way, like if you have a cow suffering you can shoot it. Same with lamb. My dad used to shoot bad calves when he had a shotgun.
I have no doubt this happens..however i doubt most 'pet' owners or indeed many working owners would want their dog to be euthanased like this.
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The point in this thread is that these foxes are NOT predating lambs, piglets, gamebirds etc. I'm aware that foxes do all of the things mentioned..i just dont agree with them being shot for purely living. I think its wrong. If you need to shoot them..at the very least dispose of their bodies in a humane manner.
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I work for a vet and just have to say that putting an animal to sleep doesnt always go as planned, we need to get the Euthatal into a vein..in a sick animal this isnt always easy as often their blood pressure is very low and the vein (typically the front leg is used in dogs) keeps blowing. We will then often try the other front leg, or in some cases, if some Euthatal has gone in, an injection is put directly into the kidneys if the animal is semi-comatose. In cases where we cannot access a vein, we give a heavy sedative and then inject them into the kidneys..if the owner is present, this injection is subtely done whilst the owner is at the animals' head. In the case of most cats, because they will fight til the last breath, they are administered a heavy sedative and then euthanased via an injection to the kidneys as described above. Most animals are dead within the first 20 seconds. Rabbits and guinea pigs take longer to die as rabbits are injected into the main vein in the ear and guinea pigs into the heart/kidneys..sometimes if the 'target' is missed..they take up to 5mins to actually die..however they are in a deep coma and unaware.
Many euthanasias go well with the animal passing away quickly, however, for every 100 that go like that, 1 or 2 are very difficult.
Its not always the fault of the vet when they cannot get a vein..we are often working with a sick animal who has many other problems.
I cant imagine endorsing someone shooting your dog. :sick:
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I have permission on the land with the dogs, the farmer is a decent guy and sensible, his sons and their friends however dont take after their father and seem to spend a lot of time hooning around in 4x4 taking pot shots at things. We had a Roe Deer on the golf course in June, she had been shot in the leg and the neck..this isnt the first time..there is a fox still running around on three legs around here...we came across a Roe a few years ago, badly injured but still alive, she had obviously lain a while and the foxes had had a chew at her whilst she couldnt get away. Again, we come across Roe carcasses in various states of rotting.
These sort of shooters give everyone a bad name.
Getting back to control..if an area has no livestock..why cant natural selection take care of the fox population..ie roads/railway etc. How far will these foxes hunt out of their 'area'? I imagine they would only leave their own territory if there wasnt enough food..which evidently there is?
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when hunting with dogs was legal the fox population was 'naturally' selectively bred for survival. If a fox was clever, healthy , fast and fed itself well then it would more than likely escape the dogs, the slower, ill foxes with poor survival instincts bred into them were caught and killed, this obviously means that their breeding was none or very limited so only the 'well bred' foxes with good survival instincts would survive long enough to breed and thus pass on their skills to their offspring all this = a healthy fox population. Now with shooting there is very little selection in the animals killed so this in my opinion is going to lead to the demise of the fox.
Any way back to topic, yes, fox control is required. Over population causes problems with other wildlife within the habitat, gamekeepers and the foxes themselves begin to compete for food, too much competition will lead to starving foxes, not good.
That also makes a lot of sense..a gun out for a mooch is going to just shoot the first fox he sees..i had never really thought of it the way you describe it. Some of the young guys out with guns will just shoot anything that moves..they shot a vixen, heavy with milk last March very close to the den..but didnt finish off the cubs, which were obvious in the den to anyone with half a brain. That to me is bad sportsmanship.
When you say 'fox control' - why to some people does this mean erradicating everyone they see? Surely control is about what you describe as 'survival of the fittest?'
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For shooting with..is a gun mounted light better? He usually has someone with him so a hand held one isnt a problem. There seems to be a huge variation in different ones..and i just dont know which one to go for.
Thanks for your advice so far.
Edited to add the one he currently has is 1.5million candle power but its reaching the end of its life..the light begins to dim after a short period of time despite having been charged properly, its old now too.