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    comanche replied to dogger's topic in General Talk

    "Unauthorised removal of a carcase",but like Foxgun says "Who's gonna tell". A couple or three tales of road kill come to mind . Many years ago I was driving down a bit of road known as "Death Alley" -so named by an ex forum member with the initials DS who was occupying the passenger seat and at the time was always on the prod for subjects to practice his taxidermy skills on- when the cry to stop went up.I stopped my tatty Mk1 Escort near what appeared to be a fur-perfect dead squill laying belly down on the road . . . Out I got and grabbed its tail . It refused to move so I
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    not true some dogs who are careful grazers and actually chew the grass can digest it and the same goes for veg if its blitzed up or grated then it will get digested Some dogs why not all? Wolves had no blitzers in the wild,but yeah cooking and blitzing is the nearest to the real veg in the unwashed honey comb of tripe, still not sure of blitzed raw thou.. because all dogs are different some chew it proper and some wolf it down and as for not being sure about raw,anybody with any sense knows that vegatables lose some nutrient value when cooked Of course cooked veg loses nutrient,a
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    Crikey -all the way from Mexico. I'm guessing that by squirrels you mean some sort of ground -squirrel or prairie dog?. Not something that lives in trees . I'd also guess that the sort of ferreting you have in mind is probably more similar to how the sport is practiced in Australia than the sport in Britain . Perhaps if you cannot find any local advice an Australian member might be able to help. For instance is there a risk from poisonous snakes and what is the breeding season for conejo in Mexico? You'd also have to be aware of any Legal restrictions . Salud,y p
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    A dead squirrel .Nice tough,grabbable bait that stays on the trigger hook well. I reckon the foxes get used to snatching casualties off the road -seem to work anyway. If the trap is tucked up behind some bins ,a punctured plastic bag of chicken bits, rabbit heads and /or fast food tied to the trigger usually gets a reaction.
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    Lurchers are good if you like to see them after the runners and if you canget a good steady obedient one that learns to mark you are onto a winner . No direspect to terriers but if you want something that is'nt a "running dog" you might be better off with something a little less excitable and more trainable. Plenty of mongrels and collie type dogs have proved very efficient ferreting dogs as they learn to mark as well as any other type and have the advantage that they are easier to train to keep still and quiet when it counts . That's only my veiw and plenty of people jus
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    Few carnivores can digest uncooked vegetable food. Just goes straight through them . How many of us has spotted stuff like undigested grass,bits of apple or even chicken corn in their dog's poo? In the wild carnivores are very greedy for the contents of the guts and stomach of their prey because the green-food has already been broken down and partially digested for them . They might enjoy chewing on a crunchy raw carrot but to get the best nutrition the greens need to be lightly cooked .
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    Obvious question so excuse it please ,but did you get the dog as a pupy or an adult? . If it was the latter it might have been spayed before you bought it . The best bitch I owned used to have a season only every 18 months or so and even then absolutely refused to be mated . She lived a long happy life and was still coming ferreting at 16 so I would'nt worry too much as long as your dog is otherwise healthy .
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    It was on my Christmas list but no b*gger took the hint . I had to buy it myself. All the old tried and tested designs inside one set of covers , tips on improving them, exact measurements ,recomended materials etc -all in really easy to follow format .
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    Nice one ! so much more satisfying than poisoning too I'll bet
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    If you have a Grey box or,a Mk11 or MK111 the collars will be transmitting all the time the batteries are in and therefore using power .Take your batteries out of the collar after every use , wipe em over with a soft cloth and they'll last a lot longer . Even with the MK111M collar which can be switched off it is advisable to take the batteries out if its not going to be used for a while .This also removes any nagging doubts about it being accidently left switched- on. Any condensation ,dirt or moisture can cause these batteries to leak power and even cause corrosion of the terminals .
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    Inan is right . How can you write about the same limited subject week after week and find something significantly new to say? .I have a copy of CW from about 12 years ago .With a change of date it could be re-published next week and I don't think anyone would notice . I doubt that many of the puppies advertised in the classifieds are still for sale though. Field sports articles are like Robin Hood films or Westerns -once someone has seen one or two they know the basic plots of just about every other film of the same genres . Occasionally someone approaches what might otherwise
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    Grass lol, i am with you mate as you know i am looking to get into the pest control industry. i have on different courses and learning from others, but taking it 1 step at a time. it shocked me to see the number of people on some of these corses that where already trading as a pest controler. with no or very little training, they had no insurance and whernt a registerd company. i have spent about £800 on training to date mostly 1 or 2 day courses and have another £650 to go for my RSPH/BPCA - Level 2 Certificate too many cowboys around in most trades, so why let them get away with it
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    Apparently if you actually see or know that the dog has eaten poison you have a window when simply making it vomit-up the poison will do the job. I doubt you'd actually be able to get vit k in the right strength or formulation to make any difference as a n antidote without a prescription . My vet was pretty good and the bill Is'nt a big one but I won't be the one paying it ! Thanks for everyones kind thoughts .
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    The 1600's were real wizzy machines . Mine did nearly 200,000 miles on the original engine .She was smoking like a two stroke by then though . The bodywork was no way up to biscuit tin quality though . You must have had a good one ! The estate version was very popular off road choice with keepers on the South Downs which says something for them !
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    I know how you feel . I've always thought it unprofessional to run-down other people in the same trade . Better to stand by your own reputation than than debase someone else's . I have a comfort zone of knowledge,training and experience of my own and If someone asks me to step out of it I'll happily recommend another more specialist operator rather than take risks . Twice in the last year though I've had to be a "grass" in an effort to distance myself from some shoddy work. Once was when I was culling squirrels for a health authority and I came across some exposed rat bait on site whe
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    Thank you so much Matt. . I've spoken to the house holders and they paid for someone to do the job . It's a bit awkward as they are my parents neighbours (which is extra annoying as I would have done the job for them at a very friendly rate ). I'm all a bit numb about at the moment . Daisy seems to have perked up so fingers crossed . Thanks for the good wishes .
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    Perfect advice Matt . Please Plucker take note . We all like to try to save abit of cash and feel capable of having a go ourselves but the very fact thatyou are asking for advice indicates that you don't understand what you are dealing with. I used to get a bit up in arms everytime I heard someone suggest that certain pest control products should not be available to the public . I'd liken it to not being allowed to buy a saw unless you were a proper carpenter . Over the last few years though I've concluded that a lot of products really should'nt be
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    As you may guess from the title of this post I'm very upset at the moment . A few mornings ago I woke to find that my lovely eight month old lurcher pup had snuck into the bedroom and somehow clambered unoticed onto the bed . The bed was also covered with patches of blood . Blood was also appearing from around one of the pup's teeth . My first thought was that a bone splinter had injured her but soon realised that there was no wound . She was also in some distress.No time for DIY wisdom and remedies . Straight to the vet who looked at the dog ,asked about recent behaviour chang
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    i to would like to know the out come as i use to work for a firm called kestrel pest control and we had the contract with the highways agency on the m4,m3,A303,A3,A34,A27,M27 etc and we use to do a hell of alot of ferreting on these embankments when farmers complain to the highways we use to respond to the callout, if the warrens were on either side of the fence the cost was split. Bearing the mind the amount of courses i had to go on and all the red tape we had to go through was unbelivable. Also on every job TM (traffic managment) had to be in place. so i would assume joe bloggs would not be
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    according to my missus rabbits can breed all year round as a menstruel cycle lasts for 28-30 days so in theory thats a litter a month. atb ryan123 Tis true.In commercial rabbiteries does can be mated as soon as they have given birth which means that they are pregnant whilst feeding a litter .If not mated imediatly though the doe does'nt come in season untill the litter is weaned at about a month . Light does bring the doe into breeding condition but too much light can actually take a buck out of condition . This means that there is often a few weeks in the hight of summer when
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    One of the first foxes I snared was a silver- tipped black and a few weeks later I was out with a Keeper from next door when we saw the "shadow "of a fox in the lamp . Took a few seconds to realise it was a black fox . This one turned out to be properly melanistic. It was posssible they were from the same litter. I had the skins from both for a while until the boss shut the farm collie in the Shooting lodge overnight and he chewed them up . Wierdest coloured fox I've seen was a sort of sandy merle . Not unlike a Cape Hunting dog . It was seen once coming out the side of a pheasant Drive
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    Ha Over the years I've kept and raised all sorts of things in my garden but the only complaints I've had were about the noise a brood of bantam- reared keets made . I think the poor neighbour felt a bit guilty when I told her the next day that I'd given them away. What she did'nt realise was that I'd just about had enough of their racket too !
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    When the ground is too muddy for my prize Sri Lankan elephant to venture forth I used to forego ferreting until a few frosts had hardened things up enough to get the Seppala -strain sled dogs out. They were the days . Team after team of grinning juks straining in the traces ,hauling load after load of purse-nets and reels of long-netting right up to the best ferreting ground .Weeks later the same teams would carry ton upon ton of rabbit carcases from the tundra of the Sussex Downs to the sheltered Ouse and Cuckmere river valleys where traders would dicker over the price before loadin
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    Breeding closely related stock is asking for trouble in the long run because not just every good quality but every bad quality will become exagerated. Its easy to see a fine built animal and appreciate its tameness and superb hunting ability whilst fogetting that genetics also affect every other aspect of its brain and body . Not just the bits you can see. Who was that footballer ?. Fit ,handsome young fellow . Turned out he had a hole in the heart ,probably genetic . Did'nt show from the outside . Spose he'd married his sister . Twice as likely that the kids would have
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    Anyone who's been keeping up with the news will probably be aware that the Farm Watch sceme in Sussex has being doing overtime lately . Before anyone says something like, "The cops should be after real criminals not bothering lads with lurchers " I'll just say that this is not what this post is about . It's not an oppertunity for a rant it is just a blooming good true story that has really made my poor mates Christmas . A couple of months ago a friend -tree surgeon by trade - had his trailer stolen after the farm gates had been pulled off their hinges . It had a clamp and chai
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