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I went to the doctor's yesterday. My usual Doc was away and I was seen by a very young and pretty lady Gp who asked all the usual questions and gave me a load of health tips .I was a bit taken aback when just as she started taking my blood pressure she advised me to stop masturbating. Just came right out with it! When I'd got over the shock I asked why. Apparently it was making it very hard to take my pulse ..... -
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Tolkein might have been an expert on Saxon history but I was convinced that his hobbit stuff was pure fantasy . Then I found myself being stalked by this chap .
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I spent an afternoon with the grand-children at the Wetlands Trust's Arundel site recently .As it was raining and there were few visitors we had a lengthy boat ride about the place and the guide spent a lot of time talking about the reintroduction of water voles to the site . The place operates vigerous mink exclusion and the voles have done so well that they have been thinned out and the spare ones released at sites on the nearby River Arun where they are doing really well . I was amazed at the way they grazed the reed beds . It looked like someone had taken a strimmer to them in places .
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A shiny new mole catchers site
comanche replied to John Keswick's topic in Snaring, Trapping & Pest Control
Shades of The Life of Brian- "Are you the GBMC or the MCUK ?" "* -off .We are the BTMR ". "What about Comanche's Popular front for Sussex Mole Botherers?." All together, -"He's over there". .... -
Yep. I've only just managed to uncross my fingers .How come I never seem to come across those lovely clean banks with neat little bunches of a dozen or so holes that are in all the books ?
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Thanks to a gardening friend I was asked to try to track down a couple of rabbits that had managed to breach security in a big country -house garden. Though the place is well-netted it seems someone left the gate open for just one night and the next morning there were unwelcome guests making merry amongst the specimen plants . I was assured that there were no burrows in the garden and that the bunnies would surely be found tucked -up in the shrubbery . I made no promises of success but agreed to run the dog about with the hope of driving the wayward critters into a long-net but just in
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for a good squealer get two beer bottle tops . Araldite them together along the edges so they are sealed and drill an 8th of an inch hole through the middle . Just remember to blow not swallow or you'll sound like a soft toy when you pass wind
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.Most folk are going for the postie bag or large fishing/ game bag or other side-pack type device . I've graduated from pocket to various army side packs and game bags to a post bag that has served well for the last couple of decades but as my arsenal of nets has grown the bag has bulged to the point of being insecure and also become very unbalencing to carry . I weighed it a while back and loaded with dry nets and locator it came out at 25 lbs . Probably nothing to you youngsters but not a good weight to be strung sideways across the weedy ,ever-more decrep
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As far as I know to be registered to be used on the road an ATV must have working lights as well as all the usual MOT type requirements ,suitable tyres etc. Back in the mists of time I had trials bikes that provided they had no light fittings of any type -working or not - and were road legal in all other ways could be used on the road in daylight . Not so much as a brake light which with an Atv in modern traffic sounds like a recipe for something nasty! There is a vehicle licencing class for ATVs so I'm sure it would be easy to check out requirements . Maybe a vist to your loca
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now in the past with stuff like Reynardine, various foul home brewed concoctions and King & Barnes brown ale available one might have considered stinking the blighters out so they moved to more accessable burrows . Are you sure the burrows actually go under the road a significant way rather than running in the verge ? These are the sort of places that rabbits hold-out and breed in and end -up reinfesting the land from simply because they can be risky or hard to tackle . Its a real sense of achievement when they get cleared but its not worth causing an accident for . Sorry
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Thanks for the comments everyone . The pup is really just a mongrel . Dad was the local wandering lurcher and the mum was a farm collie that obviously either . a/ was too slow to protect her virtue . or b/ was a bit of a tart I suspect the latter as she let the same rampant stray knobble her last year as well !
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You don't say if the road is a private track or proper public road with cars and the like . I think lots of us have to make a decision from time to time about ferreting under concrete bases and other solid surfaces . Take into account broken or hidden drains and stuff like that . As said , start with well fed freds .go quietly and start early in case you do end up with a long wait . I'm not convinced Para's advice about air guns is correct . Unless the law has changed you are quite entitled to use a gun within 50 feet of the centre of a highway (including footpaths)providing -and
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They havn't got the volume (squelch?) knob that can be turned down to reduce sensitivity as you work closer to the lost ferret which is a far more usefull guide to its whereabouts than the Star Trek LED lights that flicker aimlessly away like a Hawkwind lazer show . And as said ,the collars seem to tick too quickly which means they eat batteries .
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Over the last couple of weeks I've been working my way round a few acres of very rough ground surrounding a 13th Century manor house owned by a lovely elderly couple . The land hasn't been ferreted for the sixty years that they've owned the place so is pretty much virgin territory . It is also incredibly overgrown. By the time I've hacked my way into the ancient hedge-rows I've been lucky to have enough time to work more than a couple of burrows a day . After all this sweat-inducing hacking I decided to reward myself with a few hours in the "Pit" which whilst being easier to access was
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You will probably be very lucky to get one . I bought a brand new box and collar a couple of years ago from a fishing shop that had it mouldering at the back of a cabinet . The guy appologetically asked if £25 quid would be ok because he wasn't able to offer a gaurantee! So there may be the odd one about but don't worry because the MK3 collars(and the battery-killing Mk2s) will work with a grey box up to about 10 feet .
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The most affectionate ,loyal,intelligent bitch I've ever owned .cattledog pup.bmp obedient cattle dog.bmp and athleticcattle dog jumping on shed.bmp BUT not without certain funny little ways which might not make the cross everyone's cup of tea !!! As mentioned there have been a couple of great threads on the subject already .
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I've a couple . They were a bit of a finacial investment but they've paid for themselves .As yet I've only used them baited with old Quality Street chocolates (Turkish Delight -the ones nobody wants !) for squills and I like them.Little pre drilled holes in the ends of the tube mean it is easy to restrict the entrance with a bit of fencing wire or a skewer so that squills can squeeze past but hedgpigs can't and the tube can easily be incorporated into a more naturalistic tunnel.
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Reminds me of Kate Winslett in "that" film ..Neat picture
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Just about everything everybody has said makes sense . No point in me adding to it except to say; You have a sharp ferret and one that stays with the kill . Maybe you might not find yourself using him as much as your "softer" ferret but he will definatly come in handy from time to time . Thirty or more years ago he would have been a gem for line-work and with a locator on him might fit a similar role today . All the best .
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Tuesday afternoon's skive on the river .
comanche replied to comanche's topic in Wildlife and General Photography
Yep the rod is coming next time . Some of the little eddies under the bushes screamed,"Pike". And being tidal they can't touch you for it as long as you don't actually land on the banks which are all club controlled . -
Tuesday afternoon's skive on the river .
comanche posted a topic in Wildlife and General Photography
I had a job in the area so I popped the canoe on the roof rack . Surely anyone would have done the same? As you can see the weather could'nt make its mind up . Saw a crocodile . and geese. and some things you really don't want to see when you are bobbing about in an open 11 ft canoe - like these big black clouds ! Had I been forced into a survival situation (I mean I was at least two miles from the van ) I would have had plenty to eat .British White cross bred,maybe ? . Just got to get under that bridge before it rains . Then just as I was about to land the -
SNAP! Got up looked out the window and thought "First frost . That'll knock the nettles back ". Two seconds later I get a text from my ferreting mate saying ,"First frost . Die nettles .Die !". If only frost blunted blackthorn ..
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Thanks .He is a handsome little chap but just a mongrel.
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Yeh .I know .Those combats do nothing for the figure . It's moments like that -when you are stuck with your head down a hole and backside in the air that you pray you hav'nt misjudged your ferreting companions !
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Well spotted Watson . But. The rabbits-cunning devils - were utilising a small raft. Originally built for their now -aborted attempt to be the first rabbits to reach Iceland on a boat powered by a sail made of dock leaves this craft now resides in the Ray Mears Museum as an illistration of the traditional skills lost by modern rabbits through watching television and working in the cosmetic research industry . I guess the bunnies were up the dry end which meant I had to put the ferret in the wet end (I know what I mean ) so as to get behind em.
