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Can I ask what cross the neat brown dog is. He looks like a beefier version of my little chap ?
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Katy Price goes to an expensive clinic to have her "private parts" tidied up by a top cosmetic surgeon. When she wakes up after the operation there are four bunches of flowers with notes attached on her bedside cabinet . The first is a small bunch from the surgeon and the note just says how well the procedure went . The second note -attached to a bigger bunch of flowers -is from her hubby and says ,"Get well soon xx". The third -and bigger still bunch of flowers- is from Hello magazine reminding Katy that they have exclusive rights to the pictures of the operation. But the biggest
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A good tip is to practise on a rabbit that is already dead . If you take this to the next stage you could skin a rabbit( leave the back legs on so you have something to grip) so that you have a good idea of the anatomy and can be aware of exactly the angle to hold the head and amount of downward pressure needed to dislocate the neck . It really is not a matter of strength at all ( forget the effort that Bear Grylls put into it - very dramatic .) No need for twisting or yanking . Hold the back legs ,grasp the head, bend the head at right angles to the spine. All that is needed is
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I've always managed to load pictures (after re-sizing)straight from my computer. Since the site came back after maintainance I've noticed (eventually ) that I could'nt load any pictures totalling over 200 k whereas the limit used to be 500. Does this mean that from now on that all bigger pictures must go through photobucket or similar ? Bit of a luddite Sorry .
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I'm validating all accounts at the minute. What is VALIDATING,...does it cost anything....is it painful.. I just asked the cute little lass who works in the local shop (using my bestest Leslie Philips voice of course .) if I could validate her account . Terrific left hook that girl ...
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Definatly worth setting a cage trap (if it is big enough for a ferret ) and putting cardboard or wooden boxes stuffed with hay about the garden with a dead rabbit tied securely in each . . They do sometimes wander aimlessly away but quite often stay in the area. Keep looking and if you are on good terms wit any neighbours ask them to do the same . Good luck .
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Good thinking ratattack. And when you are done go to the pound shop or similar and buy a load of cheap dangly air freshners to hang up there . Reduces the scent trail that lures the next lot of flies into your loft .
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20 or so years ago I recall finding a few bunnies dead in strange circumstances . They were just huddled as if asleep under piles of logs or tucked-up in cover. The wisdom of the time was that these were typical VHD mortalities. Considering the weather that we've experienced it is possible that the dead ones on your patch are simply the weakest bunnies that succumbed to stress , starvation and cold. Also when rabbits do become stressed or forced to survive on unfamiliar or damp food they are very likely to be weakened by gut diseases such as coccidiosis and enteritis. These
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My ferreting mate rang to say that in the interests of domestic bliss he'd decided to decorate his kitchen and would not be taking part in our planned ferreting trip on the Sussex Downs . To add to my feeling of rejection entirely his boy would be unavailable as he'd been co-erced into taking part in an indoor cricket match. A cynical person might wonder if the weather had played a part in these last minute decisions to engage in indoor entertainment . I spent a couple of hours slumped over the wood-stove ,feeling rejected and drinking tea with an equally despondent dog hanging on m
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You say she won't eat raw meat . Could she have been fed on dry food from the start and develped a preference ? . I'm not saying starve her but maybe stop giving her the choice for a day or two-just a nice warm freshly opened bunny or some chopped rabbit meat . I think Chalkwarren wrote a while back about some ex-laboratory ferrets that he owned that totally lacked a hunting instinct and a friend of mine had one that was actually terrified of even a dead rabbit. It would brush its tail up and retreat screaming for some reason. Just to give you a grain of hope. One of my present j
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Yep,and your mum would leave plastic pots out for the mikman to put over the bottles to stop it happening .
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lets see your hunting machine (dogs)
comanche replied to JRTMAD2k10's topic in Lurchers & Running Dogs
im 13 and look at you slabbering away thats low like JRT MAD . You were on as loser from the moment you asked to see pictures of people's hunting machines . That sort of macho /hard boy talk is rarely used by serious hunters . They are not machines they are dogs ,members of the family,valued companions and hunting partners . Basically you put folk's backs-up from the begining but as you say you are only 13 you probably did'nt realise it . Start again , and as deanflute said, check out the hundreds of pictures already posted . Don't let this little set-back put a damper o -
[quote name='warrigal' timestamp='1291155125' post='18179 If your pics of the fly tippers are half as incrimnating as that of your mate "the Sussex hedgerow flasher" then they are in big trouble. Motorhead!(I am surprised they are still alive!)Actually you could be on a winner with the fragrence, unless Moto fans have changed a lot, a subtle blend of sweat, rabbit gut, ferret pong and dash of ditch mud should be a real "puller" with the um...er...well "ladies" that used to attend their sophisticated musical soirees Nice looking and useful dog you have there, I note from a previo
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I think you are thinking of Cliff Richards shows. Oh no . Cliff's fans all smell of wee and boiled cabbage .
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Age is a cruel master. Having reached that certain stage where the plug-hole of life has to be unblocked of hair after every bath I've become loath to allow an oppertunity to do something other than work or vegetate at home to pass . So when I found myself with an early finish on friday I hurled the nets in the van,grabbed a couple of ferrets and the young dog and paid a visit to my nearest bit of permission. I'd worked this bit of land quite hard but there were a couple of nice open medium sized burrows that were untouched . As I walked towards them the dog made a mark a
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You can only catch what's there to be caught. Every bunny in the net is a success . Glad you enjoyed yourself .
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If its a young dog that's made a mark I'll have it lay quietly by the hole its marked while I set the nets leaving the one next to the dog until last . Obviously the rabbits will be aware of the dog but I think it keeps a pup feeling that it is truly involved in the whole operation . Once the ferret is in I'll keep it with me out of the direct line of the holes. Once the dog knows the game I may place it in a tactical position to cover exits I may not be able to see clearly . I've no problem with a calm experienced dog that calmly moves to another position with a purpose as ,has been
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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
