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    Before getting into quick fixes or witchcraft the obvious things to try are practicing recall and retrieving with fur . Don't settle for scrappy retrieves where the dog drops the item at your feet or does the circling or hanging-back "play with me" thing A dog that gets away with junky retrieves in the sitting room or garden is likely to be even worse in a field. Once you have the dog retrieving inedible objects move onto a fur dummy . Then try a dead squirrel as a dummy. They are the perfect size and balance . Then the big day when you bring out the dead bunny dumm
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    I relented and googled . The figure of 50,000+ thousand redundant galgos being strangled etc looks a bit questionable. Most of them are simply neglected, often to death, or dumped. Which is pretty bad of course. The really unfortunate ones belong to superstitious owners who believe that giving their dog a horrid ,slow death somehow passes some sort of power to its replacement for the coming Season. A bit like some Native American tribes who believed that a captive who endured lengthy torture before death brought good luck. It's hard to believe that the gamblers and owners who v
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    I texted my Grand daughter earlier after reading bits of this thread. She volunteers at a local sight hound rescue and rehoming organisation. She spoke to the woman that runs it and the story l got back ,via text so not too in depth , is that galgos are generally treated like our racing greyhounds. The youngsters get tried out for a Season or so on the coursing grounds and just like our racing greyhounds ,they get retired very quickly . Betting is big business and the dogs are just expendable pawns to be replaced every Season. Euthanasing them in such odd ways se
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    I had a few weeks driving for a piling firm based in Sussex that had a big job on in North London. Every morning l would set off in a crappy transit pick-up loaded with stuff like augars, digger buckets ,barrels of diesel and rebar. I disliked the boss and the vehicle was a police magnet . The only rays of sunshine were the Irish guys on site . A bit scary on first meeting but everyone was a character. Their Forman was huge and very intimidating . One morning he told me that l was to stay and work on site rather than drive onto my next drop and that it had been squared with the Boss. Wh
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    Another thing is that as you got the dog at 14/15 months you probably inherited a few problems instilled by the previous owner. So don't take it personally or assume your methods are wrong . Even if you have to persevere with basic training and hold off working it for a year it's better than having a dog that's a pain for the next ten years.
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    A favourite toy , lots of love and cuddles ,tummy tickles and perseverance . Never be afraid of looking like a soft , gay , dick in public . Love your dog and hopefully it'll love you. Teaching it heelwork on and off the lead is a big must. Too many dogs hear the click of a lead coming off and think they are free to do what they like! I've a pup that's a willful little cow at the moment so it'll be plenty of loving discipline for quite a while before she gets too much free running. One thing that sometimes helps when the dog pxsses you off is to actually tell it to bxgger off, wave it
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    Darwinism? An African guy in a nearby sleepy Sussex village had a lion . My brother knows his son ; I'm going to try to remember to ask what happened to it. I'll leave it to my brother as both Father and son ,and probably the lion were/are pretty "hard" characters!
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    No,they left the cat Probably knew it would be hard to shift with the 76 Wild Animal Act in the air.
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    A while ago l posted some newspaper cuttings about a pet puma kept by a local chap in the 1970's. It was never proved but it seemed likely that it had been briefly on the loose and responsible for some horse riders being frightened . This incident is still included in the list of big cat sightings in the UK . By chance this week l did a job for an elderly couple who still live next door to where the puma was kept and was given a bit more information. Apparently the owner also briefly owned a lion that was kept on a chain in the front garden. Both cats eventually went to zoos but n
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    Mm. The guy spends the video walking along roadsides waving a tape measure yet when the black mog is pictured the tape is seemingly unavailable. Perhaps he dropped it and it broke when it hit one of those "massive " kerbstones . Seen from the wider perspectives shown in the video the critter can be sized not only by the kerb, white line, carriageway width and plants, but also the granite in the tarmac. It's not anything special.
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    Were there images of it laid out properly next to a tape measure? That's surely one of the first things any one would do if they found a four and a half foot cat! Another would be to send it to the Natural History museum for confirmation . Certainly if you look at the perspective of the picture there is nothing to support it being the claimed size.. Also having read a bit more ,the Kellas cat thing looks a bit overblown . Basically they are just a mongrel Wildcat that favour the black gene and - claimed monster road kill aside- are no bigger than a Wildcat. I wou
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    So it wasn't actually measured? Just estimated from a bad picture ? And is there a hint of photo repair? It's a pity.
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    The one on the snow looks nothing like a domestic cat to me . I'm curious about the cat caught on the new trail cam. Was that the only picture? Or the best picture? From the position it's in it looks like it had already possibly past closer to the camera and might've afforded a better picture. That is of course if the camera had been set to take a series of shots . Which l think is what most people with trail cams do. I'm not knocking the big cat thing by the way ;l find it interesting. As to that road casualty Kellas cat ; a 90 cm body is truly impressive! Unless it had
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    Blooming puppy has been taking "selfies " .
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    Nicepix was a genuine chap and straight talking ,maybe too straight talking for some . He had a good knowledge of working dogs. He was after all a professional dog handler . He was/is also a fishing writer . I knew him on another forum and he was kind enough to go to the trouble of sending me a fishing reel from France as a gift when l showed an interest in it. He no longer post on that forum either; maybe he just got fed up with the internet. I know some won't agree but l miss his posts . I'd love to know if he ever did get a big catfish on a cane rod and centrepin reel!
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    There is a "professional only" product that kills rats in a different way to the common blood thinning formulas . It's dangerous to dogs and wildlife in its primary form but evidence is that it seems to offer a "lower" risk of secondary poisoning . I had a conversation with a rep for it and he said that "in field trials no evidence of secondary poisoning had been detected." That's as far as he was prepared to comment . Certainly not a definite statement regarding its safety . It isn't available to the untrained anyway. Best stick with the idea that any poison round dogs i
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    Thank you. I'm sure you are right . I fitted a new spring and piston seal . I polished and deburred everything , especially the spring guide which was graunching badly on both the old and new springs . Then the the four thick washers someone had added behind the piston head were replaced with something thinner and more slippery. After which , according to the unscientific before and after test on a bit of wood it was working properly. Then l went to zero it and found the scope had already run out of adjustment! An old set of mounting rings from the spares box sorted the prob
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    Nothing wrong with squirrels. If you are worried about fleas bag the squill in the freezer. In fact squirrels are the perfect shape for stacking in a freezer. It's normal for ferrets to leave the skin . Avoid any that might've been feeding on rat baits but they are a fine and convenient food.
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    A sprinkling of salt. The adhesive copper tape used by gardeners to protect potted plants . Putting the bait in a little pot with a lid with a couple of holes to let the scent out . Putting the bait in a foil package or plastic bag and hanging it behind the treadle .
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    Box Brownie cameras were dirt cheap , they really started the fashion of family photo albums. I can't remember the title but l read a book many years by a chap who lived with travellers and had a camera . He was often asked to photograph other families He would send the developed pictures to Post Offices along traveller routes where they would be held for collection.
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    I've just stripped a BSA for a friend. It was totally gutless ,barely able to dent a bit of wood at a range of two inches. I'm certain it's a Lightning but it doesn't have it written on it so l thought l'd check here before ordering a new spring and seal. Both are done-for. Probably because the owner admitted she kept it loaded and cocked all the time!!!! I always had the idea that the Lightening was just a cut down Supersport and it is very similar to the Supersport l once owned except this thing is nowhere near the quality of the rifle l had. It looks and feels good
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    That's a tempting display! The nearest l can think of in this country was a little village garage that sold shotgun cartridges back in the 70s. Petrol money went into the till and cartridge money into the owner's pocket so l guess it might not have been totally legit
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    I think you probably prove the saying " The harder you work the "luckier" you get." I guess l was "lucky" through circumstances though. I stayed-on in 6th form not because l liked school or was particularly bright but because l had no idea about what sort of job l wanted. When the day came to leave I threw myself on the mercy of the Youth Job Centre who told me to go for interviews at a couple of local engineering companies. They sent all the boys to these two companies and the girls were all guided to shop work of nursing. I didn't fancy it so went to the proper Emplo
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