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Luckily Edith knows that the mere production of the rifle means that she has to behave like stalking dog. Likewise there are times when she has to live up to her breed designation of sheepdog; not a particularly stylish one .Think of a canine Lemmy from Motörhead rather than the slick things you see on One Man and His Dog. Off duty she gets to follow interesting scents and rummage through brambles in search of stuff. She's pretty hot on woodmice. Today she finally nailed a real prize!
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I can see your point of view but in your earlier post you said feeding mixed foods was " a complete no no" . When really it's more a question of timing .
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I don't get the idea that it's wrong to feed mixer and meat due to " different times" either . Every item of food is going to have a different digestion time . Probably even greater in so called natural feeding. I've always though that mix is good because the dog's digestive system gets used to coping with variety. Come the day meat is short so a bit more biscuit , an extra egg ,tin of mackerel or weird table scraps go onto the mix the gut fauna won't blink an eye . I'm blessed with what l can feed my dogs now ,and for very little money. In the past
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What's wrong with different digestion times?
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Big fan of the BARF diet apparently
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There are times when my garden becomes a bit like feeding time at the zoo . When l do a hogget or a deer all the trimmings, lights, whatever spare offal ,chunks of fat and decent bones are frozen in convenient portions for the dogs and ferrets. In addition the dogs get a cup of cheap mixer a day and sometimes odd scraps or an egg . I've usually got a can or two of El Cheapo Tex Chunks from the local Indian corner shop if l get short of the real stuff or mistimed the defrosting . The dogs do well on it! Feeding mostly raw stuff though makes it really easy to
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The Beauty Of Nature, "add Yours"
comanche replied to kriti's topic in Wildlife and General Photography
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Turned up to do wasps' nest in a garden about half a mile from home. It was the end of a very long , hot working day; l was stinky, scruffy and covered in dirt from customer's lofts . The door opened and l thought "Wow". A couple of days later l was asked back to check the nest on the pretext that one of her boys was supposedly still nervous about going in the garden. We still joke about her clearly having poor eyesight and no sense of smell
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Totally agree. I saw the The Shining at the pictures when it first came out and came out totally underwhelmed. Nicholson is ,l think , a pretty poor actor, but good at getting noticed . He was annoying in crap biker movies that launched his career and his performances haven't improved.
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Yachting suppliers, possibly but probably not cheap. "Ropes Direct" is possibly a cheaper option
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Get her retrieving little dummies so she knows about grabbing stuff . Or maybe swing a lure on a stick and string till she catches it. When she nails it coax her back to you. Keep at it for a just few minutes a day -maybe for many days . It's so much fun for the dog she won't realise she's even being trained. You'll be on your way to having a dog that chases, catches and even retrieves! All in one combined lesson. Once she's carrying/ retrieving, up the weight of the dummies and lures . That way she won't be shocked by the weight and wrigglyness of the first rabbit s
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I have an unusual Fenn MK 4 that was either a mistake on the production line or ,more likely, an experimental model designed to produce more power .Note the springs( approx 3mm gauge) on the standard MK4 on the left. Then look at the springs on the green MK4 (approx 4mm gauge). They are the same gauge as those used on the MK6 in the backround. The thing is not quite impossible to set but you have to be brave . Wouldn't like to do it with cold hands!
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There are days when it all goes wrong and l'm glad nobody is there to see it . Then there are the ones that you really want to share with a friend. Has to be a good friend though . What a fantastic day's fishing you had . 300 fish! And a long walk to prove you earned them . Far more satisfying than driving up to the river and fishing out of the boot of your car. Proper fishing
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replacement diaphragm for a24 trap
comanche replied to techworm's topic in Snaring, Trapping & Pest Control
Assuming you are not talking about the O ring . I've never taken a Goodnature piston assembly apart . So l have to ask ,where and what is the " diaphragm "? Goodnature are not renowned for their after sales service . Their distributors are well stocked with expensive accessories but not basic service parts . From what l've heard though they don't have the inclination or knowledge to do repairs . Once the unit is out of warranty they don't want to know. -
A very old friend and l manage a few days fishing together every season. He usually out catches me . When l do catch something decent it is almost always by some fluke or in odd circimstances. Not only that , it's a standing joke that l only ever catch disabled fish . One classic example of many was a 5lb tench caught a year or two ago from his club lake . I was marvelling at the perfection of my biggest tench ever when my mate cruelly pointed out that it had two fins missing! Anyway, a week ago he came as a guest on the little farm pond l have permission on, and trounced me on h
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Back to the farm pond with a mate and one of his friends as a guest. Said guest hauled in five small (five!) tench ,some decent rudd and what he described as a few small carp. Small maybe ,but they were the biggest carp ever caught in the pond ,albeit not much more than a pound each. He let slip he was actually an angling coach . It showed too . Far from being disillusioned by the size of the pond and its inhabitants he professed to having a grand time going back to his boyhood fishing roots. My mate caught his second ever tench so was pleased too. He'd just unhooked it
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I'd been a member of my local club on and off for 50 years. Then they brought in a rule that ALL anglers had to carry an unhooking mat the size of a tennis court and a landing net big enough to recover the Titanic even if they weren't fishing for carp. This applied to the club waters that didn't even hold carp! Shit went my usual habit of bait in one pocket tackle in another and sensible sized landing net that didn't snag undergrowth and was more than big enough to cope with the sort of stuff l'm likely to catch. A black bin liner folded in one pocket makes a portable unlhoo
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Years ago l raised a few rabbits supposedly for meat after being given a few old commercial rabbit cages. We were running on the good life , self-sufficiency vibe . Silly really as l could get plenty of wild rabbits for the pot and have a surplus to sell without the bother of cleaning cages , rearing and feeding the tame ones. Another weird thing was killing the white fluffy ones : l just didn't like doing it. Yet l would ping a wild one's neck without a thought. Then the penny dropped , the real money was in selling the baby rabbits to our local pet shop! My daughter got hea
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My memory failed me . She wasn't a pointer cross. You are right .She was foxhound cross . The edition you read must've been a re-published one because l read it in my school library in the early 70s . I wonder if you'd find many hunting books in school libraries these days!
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My school library had Rebecca ,am l right thinking she was a pointer cross ? It was a long time ago . The school library also had Of Pedigree Unknown the original mid sixties edition. I did once have the later 70s edition with Drabble's updates but lent it to someone . They must've liked it because l haven't seen it since . Some of Plummer's claimed escapades as related in his Tales of a Rat Hunting Man read suspiciously like reworkings of Drabble's anecdotes .
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Without Ozzy, Sabbath were nothing special and Ozzy without Sabbath was just a sad cliche in real life and on the stage . Still ,Black Sabbath was part of my early 70s yoof, so l've been alternately shrugging and grinning at Ozzy's antics for over half a century
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Luckily the reality show passed me by as l haven't had a tele for getting on for 30 years . I imagine it was something like a real life version of the Munsters but without the witty humour . Nothing he did musically after the late 70s was even remotely interesting , just dross cleverly promoted by his wife with Ozzy reinvented as Satan's left hand man ( l think the Pope sits on the right) . And fair play to her ; she certainly put the hours in! Drugs, booze ,infidelity, domestic violence , shit parenting; Oz sounds a right xxxx . Factor-in illness and injury
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Dunno , if l saw a long haired old bloke in blue shades shambling down the High Street ,mumbling to himself . I kinda think as a matter of self- preservation l would take notice..... Unless it was in downtown Devizes or virtually any town in Cornwall ,that's pretty normal behaviour .
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I fished there a few times. One day l was fluff chucking as per the rules of his trout lakes when a couple of lads appeared. They both set up float rods baited with worms or maggots and started hauling out a trout almost every cast. Along came Roger Daltrey in some little buggy thing who WHO had a word in their ears . He then came over to me, apologised , and told me one the lads was his son and that he'd been told not to do" that sort of thing in front of the paying punters." To be honest l did like him for some reason.
