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I've had first hand experience of that. A friend took on a staff from a specialist bull terrier rescue organisation . The story she was given was that the dog was a big softy but the rescue kennels were overstocked and the dog just needed temporary lodgings until a permanent home could be found . My friend is no stranger to dogs like Bordeuxs and Belgian Shepherds and has staffs of her own . Within minutes of the thing arriving it broke its lead and made a bee line for a child on the other side of the stable yard. The child ended up in A&E. The rescue centre were in tota
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Yep, l've used them. They are fine. Like all chains they are as good as the person sharpening them .
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Today l spent a few hours on the bank . It was rather unexciting although a few small fish were daft enough to let me catch them Smallest and daftest of the lot was this minnow that managed to get inside my feeder . ?
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That sort of cirrhosis is quite common in rabbits . Without a vetinary inspection you'll never know but it doesn't look like fluke My money is still on the coccidiosis parasite but that's a good bet because all rabbits carry it . It affects little rabbits badly but as they age they aquire a level of immunity. After that the cocci and similar parasites usually only erupt to dangerous levels in older rabbits under stressful conditions. Which could include chills caused by damp weather and that rabbits' digestive system is not designed for wet food. Scarred livers don't
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I've always put it down to Coccidiosis .
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Fred Bear is one of the two " Names" that always comes up with bow hunting. I had no idea what he looked like . Howard Hill is the other one. Well worth a look! And l read that he is the archer who really did "split the arrow " on cue for the camera in the old Errol Flynn Robin Hood film .
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Stir fried pheasant with water chestnuts and quince . And part of my annual batch of mince pies for the freezer . They look a bit "rustic" because despite years of practice l struggle with gluten free pastry ( other half is celiac). Can't be too bad though because no matter how many l make they always dissappear .
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Who recalls when THL really was a hunting site ? When posts on the General section and the Running Dog section weren't just an excuse for the same old cadre of keyboard warriors to engage in boring winky measuring and widdling competitions ? When really interesting opinions were exchanged without childish personal rancour ? A time when serious hunting topics like the following dominated the forums........ Them was the days...?
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There's been a shortage of mushrooms in my area this year but l struck lucky yesterday .
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Not sure the Richmond Park herd goes back to Henry VILL but l could be wrong. Great picture of a moody looking buck?
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An embarrassing number of the animals we hunt in the UK are aliens; descendents of imported animals. Some were exotic curiosities, pets or farmed species that escaped . Things like Chinese water deer, muntjac, grey squirrels ,rabbits, wild boar hybrids and American mink are the ones that come easily to mind . Even blxxdy parakeets! Accidental escapes aside ; for better or worse an awful lot of animals were brought into the country to deliberately increase the diversity of quarry . It's not a recent thing . A starter- pack of breeding fallow deer from the Continent was consid
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Looks like bacterial ulcers . They may indicate a water quality problem . They can also be triggered by injury so an attack can't be ruled out but any illness or abrasion , perhaps from spawning activity, that damages the fish's slime layer can let bacteria in. Donning my Columbo/ Hercule Poirot hat : You say that the other fish are ALL fine . So none missing? That doesn't indicate a regular visit from a heron. Though one looking for passing trade can't be ruled out .As people are saying ; for a bird that happily hunts worms and voles in ploughed fields and f
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I've always wondered if perch figure in many repeat captures. They don't seem to . Not the bigger ones anyway.
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It is virtually impossible for a properly set Fenn to throw it's catch away . Operator error .... not knowing how a Fenn works is the cause .
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I shall console myself with the fact that the gudgeon were quite big . And also that this thread has provided the opportunity for a few ruffe fishy puns . I won't rise to the bait though by adding any more until l think of one that raises the bar(bel) ......?
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Yes l've decided on an ide . The lateral line scale count was off the register by miles for it to be anything else . Also my mate sent me a notice that lists ide being found in the nearby river Test . Unfortunately my doubts about my 8oz dace have been confirmed too . I really wanted it to be a big dace but wasn't convinced by the anal fin . Sadly, the scale count fits an ide . Bum!
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Ide agree with you?
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Bloody right; especially the uncut version
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I expect you've done it ,but if not it might be worth cleaning the battery terminals before you get the hammer out. Good luck.
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"Half of what he says is lies . The rest ain't true." Burt Lancaster in Ulzana's Raid referring to some information he'd gleaned from an Apache informant. I think of every time a politicians opens their mouth? My Mum had this great one that she used a lot but l didn't understand when l was little . "Butter'll be cheap when grass grows there." Basically referring to someone overweight or with a big bum . As in , if grass grew there it would support a big herd of cows and dairy products would go down in price. It took me years to work out.?
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Thanks for that. I put the picture on another forum and was told the same. It was a great day . One bit was quite surreal as in the middle of a raging thunder storm l latched onto the most beatiful big yellow eel that gave me a real runabout . Unfortunatly the current swept it into some overhanging brambles as l tried to net it. End of story? ?
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I had a memorable day on the bank on Sunday. This included torrential rain ,thunder and really spectacular lightening but it also had me engaged in an impromptu species hunt . No matter how badly l fished l still caught things . The fish were indeed in a charitable mood . The single out of Season trout really shouldn't be included in the legitimate catch list but it brought my total to eleven different sorts of fish . All from the same swim too. Minnows , gudgeon ,perch, small bream, roach and chublings ,a grayling and a really cute baby barbel all came to say hello .
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