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    I know this has been done to death but just saw a litter of beddy whippets up for sale for £2k each! Be interested to see if they actually sell at that price, I know dogs are outrageously priced at the moment but that is just ridiculous. Or am I wrong?
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    Amazing ground, I have nothing even remotely similar to that round me. Can I ask what’s about in those hills? Game wise.
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    You answered the question whilst I was writing my last post! From the ones I’ve seen and whippets I’ve owned (admittedly a small sample size) would still prefer a whippet
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    The Podenco’s I have seen were very unbiddable and not as fast as a whippet so not sure what advantage over a whippet they have? Keen to understand the thinking.
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    7.65 an hour…..no thanks
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    Agreed. Look at the mess children’s education is in with 100,000’s of completely healthy children having to self isolate for a disease that’s now we have a vaccine is less lethal than flu. They have suffered horribly protecting the old and now the old are protected they are still suffering. It will never end until testing does, the false positives alone are enough to keep the fear mongering alive.
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    For the last three months more people by roughly 4/1 I think have been dying of good old flu, no one really cares and just excepts it. If we tested a million a day for flu/cold we would get 100,000’s off positive test results. Flu has a fatality rate of approx 0.2 and the delta variant 0.08….someone explain to me why we are testing still? Get your jab or don’t but this is over to anyone that can understand basic math and statistics. It’s not even close to a pandemic anymore it’s an endemic disease that between 5-20k people a year will probably die off that we need to just accept as another ris
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    Thanks Fred, he is quite a decent size about 21” I reckon but I have never actually measured him! Might be bigger
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    This is my boy, put a good few rabbits away in his 4 years. Not on the lamp as requested but a proper working whippet.
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    I think that makes worn correctly made of correct materials are probably very useful but the masks or face coverings that most people are wearing and the way they are wearing them makes them potentially more likely to assist the spread of covid. Exactly what Chris Witty said until about July last year then suddenly they changed their tune. I genuinely think it’s about physiological power over the people the mask is the symbol of both compliance with the rules and a sign off fear. The country will never return to normal until masks are no longer worn. Surprise surprise that today there’s yet an
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    I stopped wearing a mask today. I had more or less worn one in shops etc but that was it and today should have been freedom day and I won’t be wearing one again. They don’t even work and I my opinion actually spread it with the constant taking them on and off. Stop you breathing and communicating, horrible bloody things.
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    I personally wouldn’t charge £25 but that’s not at all unreasonable, christ have a look online some people charging £80 for a kit. As cantona says above when you consider the work a ferret can give you £25 is nothing really. The days of £5 for a ferret and £100 for lurcher are over.
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    I despair at what society is becoming I really. Some posh uni kids voted to take the queen’s portrait out of the library due to the links between the monarchy and colonialism. Where does it bloody stop?
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    I completely agree, I hate poison in any form tbh there’s always far to much collateral damage and horrible slow death. Was just a comment to toolebox that with no poison being used hopefully the rabbits stay and he keeps his job!
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    From what you have said and from the videos you posted it seems the method that worked the best was 1080 poisoning and with that now not happening it seems that long term the rabbits aren’t going anywhere. The numbers will no doubt fluctuate especially with the disease factor but they have been there 200 years and survived everything thrown at them so my guess would be your safe in your job! Top thread this by the way, keep the tales from the other side of the world coming!
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    Skin on is no problem at all. In thirty years I’ve always fed skin. I do skin the ones I freeze though purely as they take up less space in the freezer and in the summer the hobs are separated etc and being skinned makes it easier to cut the whole rabbit up and divide amongst the cages.
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    Heard a lot of stories about dogs/ people not being able to live of rabbit because of lack of fat which I totally agree with and understand but ferrets seem to thrive on it? Mine get nothing else bar the odd pheasant or woody and are in superb nick pretty much all year round. Silver jill I have I don’t think has ever eaten anything else and she is got a beautiful coat and a nice bit of condition to her, her brother on the same diet is a massively fat f****r! Just a thought! The situation in New Zealand is amazing to see, if i am not mistaken RVHD2 did a fair number on them 20 years ago so go
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    RIP Kass
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    It seems that places with lots of rabbits rarely have lots of hares and vice versa, got a fairly decent number of rabbits round me currently but hares are very rare indeed. I use a thermal at night also so fairly confident I would see them if they were there.
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    All wild animals really are incredible. Seen deer with 3 legs otherwise healthy caught a rabbit last year that had broken its back leg but had all healed up in an awful crooked way but the rabbit was fat and healthy...struggled to outrun the whippet though!
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    That will be RVHD2 I have seen it before it causes them to have a sort of epileptic fit, not nice. Hopefully it doesn’t hit to hard.
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    Not that lucky or you would have let him go! ?
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    Agreed.
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    Ferrets are seriously tough sob’s, they’ll heal don’t fret. I’ve got a ferret that’s about 14, just refuses to die. Had various lumps and problems and just when I think I’ll have to knock her on the head and put her out her misery she heals up got another old one had a huge tumour in her gut but didn’t seem in any pain and seemed happy so left her and it just disappeared! Amazing, tough animals ferrets. Take more than a few scabs to bother a ferret.
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    Need to separate the hobs they will do some serious damage if left together all summer. Is the jill properly in season, vagina will be very swollen and obvious. My guess is that she isn’t full “in” yet hence the reason the hobs aren’t that interested yet. My vas hob is in with 6 jills and he ignores the ones that aren’t quite ripe! They all get it in the end though ?
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