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    As I said don’t hammer the survivors or you have no chance. You used to be able to go hard at them and they would recover well but not anymore with RVHD, I have noticed if you take to many they take years to get back. I barely use a net anymore just bolt to the dog, he misses loads but that means they are there to breed. Ferreting with purse nets or well set long nets is a brutally effective method of pest control.
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    The main issue is RVHD we got in England a few years before Ireland as I understand it but it’s a fairly nasty disease with anywhere from 5-95% mortality. I keep telling myself that rabbits are born survivors and mixi wiped out 99% of all rabbits and they made a (relatively) quick recovery to get up to decent numbers before RVHD hit. Main thing I would say is don’t hammer the ones that have survived or they will never recover. It will take at least 10 years probably but hopefully will happen, don’t underestimate the humble rabbit!
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    Plenty about for you Trev as always. Have a good season and good luck with pup
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    I respectfully disagree ???
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    Mk1 is a much better box than the mk3 in my opinion. The mk3 collars however are superb
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    I lost a polecat jill when working and after lots of looking etc gave up after a week or two. Nearly a full month later she just walked up to a beater on a shoot day, fat as a pig and friendly as a puppy. Still had her collar on which had stopped working. Picked her up and sat on my lap and went to sleep on the way home! Didn’t think I would see her again!
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    I don’t see why it wouldn’t work I know a chap that said his land was devoid of rabbits and he dropped a few and says now there’s loads. Probably want to either do it where there are existing holes and physically put them down the holes or when there is plenty of cover so they have some protection from the foxes etc. As mentioned it is illegal though so don’t get caught!
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    Good news. Will they work with the old collars or will you need a new collar that works with the new box?
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    Disney + has all seasons. Can subscribe for about £7 for a month just get it for a month binge watch it then cancel the subscription
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    I haven’t had it but was going to but the constant coercion and bullying and threats from the government has put my back up and made me suspicious of the whole things, never before in history have people been so pushed to take a vaccine for a disease that is so harmless to the vast majority. As SC has said it doesn’t stop you getting or passing on covid and as a younger person that’s had covid I feel safe enough knowing I have some kind of natural immunity. Three friends of my Mrs haven’t stopped bleeding since they took their first doses nearly 9 weeks ago, that’s not normal. 3 girls in their
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    Why are you selling him?
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    I just had a decent look about and your right, most pups are still quite expensive but didn’t actually see any as expensive as the ones that made me start this thread (worst was £1500). Reassuring that 2k is indeed a ridiculous price to charge for a lurcher.
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    These ones are from a well proven mating the sort a bloke that wanted a working dog would be happy to buy but not sure many working dog lads would pay £2k. Last litter my whippet sired to my mates lurcher bitch we gifted the entire litter….
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    Class that, can’t believe the husband didn’t see him hanging out the window ???
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    Can’t see these prices being maintained surely, once the lockdown dog boom ends I think the arse will fall out of it. Must be a lot of greedy people breeding dogs (off all varieties not just runners) purely for money at the moment. This litter had six available, that’s 12k for one litter ?
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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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