Greyman
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There is an online poll at the bottom of the link, currently running at70% to 30% in fury’s favour, personally I,d give it to aj if it ever happens ?
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Do you shoot firearms mr Wilkes, reason I ask is as I don’t use firearms so I never seek permission, ?
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I dare say there is mate, but all the screaming idiots keep shouting is we want a clear picture, so if everyone is happy with the figures should be at least one of these alpha hunters that can upload a phone shot of one they have seen or killed, it’s just an example of the stupidity of those that like to shout so loud they can’t hear what is being said or don’t want to, and one or two that are more into online arguing than trying to learn or be involved in something ??
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Yes mate have been out tracking with her and her partner, they do mountain rescue and search for missing people, she’s also really good on wild edibles, you would certainly not go hungry if you were lost with her, other than what I’ve seen when I was out with her I don’t know a lot more, her partner is part of the beaver project so both very well qualified ?
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My problem is that rules have tightened massively with regard to ownership and as we said we don’t no how many are illegally smuggled in, then there is the other problem I have is that I do get a couple of sightings early summer most years of a big one with a smaller one in tow so in my own mind there is no doubt that breeding does take place, I,ve been saying there is a lot of natural behaviour, which only comes with something familiar with its surroundings not something just turned loose, I don’t doubt for one minute one or two may get here illegally and some may eventually be turned loose,
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Why not get a small shop going on here and make a few pound as well then, plenty of perspective customers, and a small commission for the man that came up with the ideal ?
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They are another species of animal that live in the uk, when I asked someone for a photo of one my biggest critic and the forums greatest hunter had the audacity to claim to have seen one running along a road was within 3ft of it yet still has not produced the photo, oh the irony of it ???
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My mate took his misses out for a meal on Valentine’s Day and squashed one On his way which really set the mood ??
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I did look one year and I think 12 had been intercepted entering the country illegally but that does not say how many got through ?
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Much more likely there may be a male on Bodmin and a female on Dartmoor, and there would have been years when they never found a mate, they are now showing up in certain areas at certain times of the year which indicates they are travelling in a circuit which would encompass a female or two and as this carry’s on happening the young will spread out and the territory’s will get smaller this is when we will get to a point that people will spot them a bit more regularly, I totally get it is just an assumption and you have to take a lot of what I say at face value but I’m really not into bullshit
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I no that but imprinting on the brain just makes predators pretty nomadic, also sheep are a lot less taken than deer judging by the numbers we get, and most sheep get reported but no one reports deer, the dipping of sheep is really off putting,I mentioned before the estate in Scotland that was loosing up to 4 sheep a week, suspected mother and cub, so as an experiment half the flock were dipped and from then on only undipped sheep disappeared, in Bodmin in the 80s a farmer put poison on the necks of his sheep after getting a hammering, from that day on the cat went from the lambs to the ewes w
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If a large predator is in the woods for a few weeks the prey items move on so the predator moves with them and as you know the seasons bring different things at different times of the year, so young birds rabbits and hares in the crops early season and woods during winter for the deer and cover ?
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The same reason you spent hundreds of hours getting ready to go out looking your most splendid and travelling miles round your local pubs and clubs with your tongue on the floor, SEX if there were only a few here and a few there the urge to breed is what will send them on there travels and once they have a female or two that will be the size of the territory as they will keep on revisiting until she is in season and ready to mate??
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There rearing would have a big impact on how things went, as I said there are two black leopards in captivity the male is hand reared the female not, if the pen got breached over night she would probably be gone and not seen again he would be sat there still waiting for breakfast or just wandering around, places like Bodmin and exmoor were far more quiet and remote in the 70s so the adaptation had more chance to pan out, after all the initial sightings things went quiet for some time but now farmers like the one that lost those sheep will have a few attacks each year at around the same time o
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Shops like Lidl and Asda sell fresh pots of it or bags of the leaves, that’s coriander by the way it’s available everywhere here ?
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And if you were not so rude slagging everybody off before you realise you are being lied to you may be able to have a conversation about your findings at a later date without the need to revert to all this stupid name calling, it’s a cycle and all you have to do is stop to break it ?
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What I,m saying to you is that if you had a captive bred cat in a zoo or a cage and it escaped it would not know how or what to hunt and as it gets hungry it will start to have a go and make a mess of things it will be spotted by people it will attack more farm animals than a wild ones and make loads of mistakes until it gets recaptured shot or eventually adapts, the few that did adapt would then be able to teach there offspring to hunt and kill efficiently which is what appears to be happening today ?
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Have a watch and tell me, house moggys also come in several levels from the farm cat that is still partially wild and will hunt at a decent level to the Persian that is nothing more than a fanny warmer, bringing a couple of house sparrows in from the garden its quite impressive but would not keep most cats alive, have just had an email from a member on here about a sighting in Devon this week, within a few minutes I contacted the group to log the sighting and someone else 10 miles away has just been in touch totally unknown to the first that has seen and taken some pics of one so that’s either
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That’s just not true mate I,m sorry, plus there are only two captive black leopards in England have been for a lot of years they live in exmoor zoo it doesn’t add up to the hundreds of sightings across the country each year or the fact the owner of exmoor zoo also gets a few calls from the police a year asking him to check they are still in there cages, I put a program up a while back of two captive lynx and the work done to get them back to the wild took quite some time and a lot of teaching sorry ?
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Wow this is getting a bit primary school now one more reply and I think we will have to go to drawings, cats in the uk are mostly captive bred and would have never been taught by an adult to kill, that’s why when you release a captive animal it goes a bit kid in a sweet shop and just kills everything that moves in a very haphazard way like the borath lynx that killed 7/8 sheep in a week or the original beasts of Bodmin that showed all the signs of having lived in captivity, but once they become naturalised it allows them to kill just what they need in a very silent efficient way one bite to th
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For someone that makes up there own mind you certainly spend a lot of time being told what to think before you get there ?
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Global money crash would be my guess, the writing was on the wall from the minute we moved away from gold backed money, now they call it quantitative easing, which means every time we are in the shit we will just print more money, but as time goes by all it does is makes money worthless to the point you have to press the reset button and start all over again ???
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We are in England mate live feeding in zoos is not really the done thing here
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I think what you don’t get is a breeding population is not going to make a massive impact all at once it could be half a dozen being born in a year and maybe one of those may be of a cross bred nature, it does not have to be a puma and a leopard as you keep referring to, we had a conversations about raccoons which it is accepted are now breeding in England, not very stealthy animals probably a lot more than 500 in the uk yet when I asked if anyone had a picture of one, not one person myself included could without taking it down from the net, one person claimed to have been within 3ft of one bu
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Quite funny really would imagine a tiger cub was bigger than an adult savannah quite quickly, also interesting is that the notion of hybridisation is often scoffed at but here is a new hybrid cat that is a mixture of wild and domestic, bit of interesting reading for you ?
