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  1. comanche
    Never Mind The Bollocks ...... Look for sturdy legs too Rams can get heavy, and bendy limbs and wonky feet can limit the atheletic abilities required for mating. I guess you are renting the ram rather than buying. So its not such a long term investment though. ?
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    ?This lot weren't exactly best pleased by having their nest exposed by a chainsaw but while their siblings were bouncing off me others still carried on with nursery duties. I can imagine the reception if l'd suggested laying off the job for a day or two while l fimed some video footage . I don't think my wildlife camera would've survived a trip through the shredder?
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    Not the best photo , partially because l was using my phone but mainly because l was standing under a nest full of hornets at the time? Unfortunatly l had to kill them because the nest was impeding some tree surgeons . Before doing the deed l managed this picture of the inmates of the pupation cells being helped to freedom by their older relatives
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    It might be the day l get banned from the Site..... That's if l say what l think of the twats who think everything revolves around the possession of dogs with "good" blood lines... Have they never heard of building a relationship with a dog and taking the time to train it . And for a country that prides itself in being a nation of canine lovers the standard of dog training in the UK is a bit low . ?
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    That's good of you to say. I expect you have just as many local breeds or more over there. And from some of what l've read the obsession with bloodlines from certain sources in the US is at least as pronounced as it is over here. Don't know if you have any sort of doggy folklore over there , but tales of fairy dogs , Black Dogs, Hairy Hounds ,Gelert and many more are a historical part of our culture too. Again l've read that while some of your native people considered dog meat a delicacy other tribes avoided harming dogs and wolves because they considered them relatives .
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    Er no , l bow to your command of language and defend myself by saying that the limits of the keyboard do not always allow the expression of subtle humour or levity. Clearly l am in error. Tad concerned as to why you ended you post to Wolfie with a kiss though.??
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    We have or had lots of different local types of dog . Seemingly every other town ,village or big country estate kept a strain of working dogs. That might've been terriers for ratting , badger hunting or fox digging. Dogs for fighting ,baiting or racing. Or maybe a local type of hare,otter or fox hound or harrier. Even before landed gentry developed gun dogs specific to their needs, there were older breeds for hawking and hunting boar , wolves and deer . Even huge hounds and war dogs that impressed even the Romans. Its a fallacy that only our British upper classes are inbreds. Peo
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    I understood it . Its a layed back way of getting different opinions and perspectives . And it's worked!
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    Hm, maybe that's nearer the truth . You swine Sir???
  10. comanche
    Neil Young ? Wilko Johnson??
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    I get all the time , " Brad Pitt ". Which is weird because l've always thought that if they made a film of my life the obvious choice to play me would be Will Smith .
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    Tree wasps don't have the chocolate markings or brown/ orange " shield " on the shoulders ( medians do but they usually have a barred face too). Tree wasps also have a black spot on their faces. Without doubt "my" specimens are definately one of the dolichocephalic species though?
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    40 views and no response. At least I'm not alone in my ignorance. Actually l have come to think after internet searching and book references that identification of the median wasp when they first turned up in this country might've been lazily done. The recognised "type species" as featured in identification charts have a barred face and yellow lower limbs . However a few pictures do show a wasp that match my specimens with brown legs and plain face. I reckon they are actually seperate species.
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    Does anyone recognise this species. The nest was about twenty feet from the ground.From their behaviour and appearance ,albeit viewed from a distance and through my aged eyes, l was certain they were medians. Their lack of organised defence was also typical. However despite several classic pointers to that species , amongst other things the facial pattern doesn't tally with the text books. I still think it's a median , they can be a bit variable in body colour , but l'd love to have an opinion from someone more expert.
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    I think the zinc air batteries are possibly designed to release energy as soon as they are unsealed . Which means they discharge slowly even when not in use in the transmitter. I could be wrong on that but a watchmaker friend who used to get me batteries did tell me that zinc air ones were designed to give full power until they reached the end of their life. Then they simply stopped working . I suppose in a ferret locator that could be a bit troublesome if the batteries gave out on the middle of a dig .
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    Never found them reliable. I "borrowed " a pack from my Mum but they didn't last long . Apparently they start to discharge the moment they are exposed to air.
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    For nigh forty years my BRNO wore a basic Nikko Sterling Silver Crown. I only took it off because it was a period match for a vintage air rifle l was given. The .22 now sports a cheap Hawke .lt's fine. Though l suppose if Ben Bhoy saw my picture he'd probably say it was too good for me....???
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    The big Marco Monarch should suffice?
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    My Mum spent the last few months of her life in a care home and the staff were fantastic. I had a call one day from the manager who apologetically explained that one of the staff had lost her temper and sworn at my mum. I was asked if l wanted the matter taken further. My reaction was " ls that all. " Bearing in mind that poor mum had such bad dementia that you would've thought she was possessed by demons and was violent with it, l think the staff were near candidates for sainthood.
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    This sort of thing ? The Anglo Impassable.
  22. comanche
    Exactly? Thank heavens we haven't got racoons over here; it would be a matter of pistols at dawn for some people ????
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    I may be cynical but l can't help thinking that daily trap checks are as much about generating a payment per visit income rather than the payment per mole policy that a lot of mole- catchers have. It favours the unlucky or incompetent trappers who take a week to catch a mole while penalising the trapper who endeavours to get a quick result. It's also a clever way of tying up a mole-catcher with time consuming daily trap checks so they are prevented from straying too far in search of work . Possibly onto the "Patch" claimed by a member of a Mole catching Organisation. It als
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    Another way to look at it is that if a chap is openly admitting that most of the moles he catches are suffering lingering deaths he possibly isn't the right person to be heading a Mole-catching Organisation. In fact he might benefit from a few basic trapping lessons rather than promoting himself as some sort of Tapidean Guru! He also has stated in print that mole traps are worn out after an arbitory twenty settings and should be replaced . There was a thread on here some years ago concerning the fellow's Mole-catching Organisation . I know several folk who had joined it -
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    Pharaoh Hound= fast , barky idiots. Manic hunters of anything that moved , including blue tits on the wing . Well the ones l've had the misfortune to have anything to do were. And,er, ahem "unamenable to close control ." I have scars on my hand from the time one of the stupid hounds goaded a well behaved alsation into a fight . The Pharaoh hound missed the Alsation and ripped my hand. And kept ripping it. The Alsation missed the hound , and its teeth hit the bone in my arm. It immediately realised it had made a mistake and let go but l still have the scars Not too kee
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