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In the confined building the diseased droplets of breath would would spread easily . My grandad apparently nursed several dogs through distemper. He reckoned all you could do was treat the symptoms ,keep the dog warm,drinking a honey and warm water electrolite and keep its airways clear . Not all made it and if they did they doubled in value as any dog that had survived and therefore aquired immunity was sought- after in the days before innoculation was common.
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You feel stupid and cheap? The swine's caught me three days in a row! I'm on the bl*dy interweb apparently. Same bloke nearly caught me out last year .....Got me to kneel down and shut me eyes. Could'nt fool me though .I knew it were no new design of toothbrush . Well I knew after the third or fourth time anyway.
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We may mention them ,but as they have been added to schedule 9 of the Wildlife and Countryside Act we must not allow any more to escape into the wild. Even though they come under the 1996 Wild mammals Act there is no specific law preventing us from pulling their legs off and roasting them over a slow fire Apache style or having sex with them whilst driving.
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Pretty sure you are right Kay . Think ferrets are used for research and preparation of the distemper serum. Years ago I bought some hens from a smallholding and was very taken by lovely ,quiet (in hind-sight ,too quiet ) lurcher on the site. You guessed it .A week or so later my old line- hob came down almost overnight with the classic symptoms ---head full of catarrh,rasping breathing and general miserableness . Yep Distemper. Luckily he had a separate cage and I always fed him last so the disease had'nt been passed to my jills.
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No particular order . The Searchers The Outlaw Josey Wales Last of the Mohicans Oh b*ger it ,so many more . Bring me the head of Alfedo Garcia. That film where Tommy Lee Jones lugs the dead Mexican about ,What's it called? Ulzana's raid (only the uncut version ). The original 1970's Hills have Eyes .Saw it twice at the cimema when it came out and on both occasions the audience got on on it's feet clapping when one one of the bad mutants was killed by the alsation . Still more ..........Dumb and Dumber .......etc etc
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The big problem I always found with a C B was trying to find the bolts especially if you did'nt want someone else to find em .Even ,as you've found ,if you have a target and backstop its not always plain sailing. If you did find em a lot of the time they would have had the fletching stripped off where they'd passed through the target and were often bent !. Still I persevered with some of my own manufacture. They were'nt any better than shop ones (well maybe the heads had more "character" ) but because I'd spent time making them meself I was more carefull where I poked them.
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and whats wrong with trying to snare gay pixies ? Apart from the fact that they are protected under the 1996 Protection of Wild Mammals Act (sub section 66,Etheral beings of sexual ambiguity) you mean? Well obviously being gay they have quite a low reproduction rate and are therefore becoming rare. Also ,suppose a fox were to visit the snares. It would be quite distressing for a child to find nothing but little doll-like heads in the wires
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Your probably right mate but like you said it's the confidence thing . I was never happy with the weighted head /sea hook rigged shads . The first time I took my weighted keel beastie out I caught a pike accidently! I'd only dangled it under the rod-tip to watch its action in what was a very slow flow,not even retieving it or moving the rod -tip and within seconds I was into a fish. Hence I have confidence in the rig but I'm not disregarding your advice ---it makes some sense . As for not catching spawning fish . Well I don't fish in the Close Season even on waters where there
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Just a thought Dekker. The guy with" loader "might have been with shooting coach. After all these years people in fieldsports are still taking cheap shots at each other based on class ,choice of sport ,the "wrong" sort of long-net even. Regardless of social standing some sports men are pompous donkey-holes & others are ignorant yobs . But there are many ,many more women and men from all social classes who enjoy various aspects of the countryside in so many different ways who may differ on outlook but are still members of a large sporting community that neets to present a un
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Is it the tights?
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Mickleham stretch? The Box hill bit could be fun .Plenty of small chub and catchable roach/dace/perch etc to keep the interest up and always the chance of the odd better fish as a bonus but I'm going back some years. For this sort of fishing and piking I'd probably go for a minimal tackle ,mobile approach,move-on when a swim goes dead but of barbel I have no real experience so barbus has to be" the man", although I did hook and lose one in my local millstream once ! How it got there one can only guess. Pike do detect deadbaits by scent .I've watched pike home-in on a dead fish and v
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From the look of that snare he's after gay pixies.
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S'all veering from the tragic to the serious and back to the strange .Bin a fight in the lurcher forum , someone's been setting snares for gay elves according to the pest control section & to top it all some cruel tease in the general forum posted pictures of small birds knowing full well that any mention of tits was bound to get a response from the more red-blooded young lads on here and the older chaps such as myself who have but our memories of sweeter times. Here's my bit of quiet mayhem.
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Hello .At last a message .Someone 's left me a message! . Actually Ditch left me one once but it was best deleted for the sake of decency.Good luck with the calender .Thank you!
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Forget the "subconciously" .I 'll bet these chaps deliberatly left a few breeders behind or at least did'nt try too hard to get at the difficlt burrows .Think it might have been Sheil's Rabbits and their History amongst others who mentioned the tail removal and release scam. Actually the idea of laying a a chap off after a couple of seasons meant that the trapper would do his damnedest to kill a lot of bunnies befre he went so as to get a few quid in the kitty and a good reference.
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Either send it back to Deben or the props department for Star Trek
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Rememberence Sunday is linked with church services so its kinda inextricably linked with some sort of compromise about dates but The 11/11/11 one minutes silence can be observed wherever you are. So what if the shop you are queuing in does't shut it's tills at 11 o'clock on the 11th? Why not simply remind them with a timely tap on the watch and a hush sign. If that fails just stand still and block the queue.You won't be alone.
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we can maybe have them on the cover but to pay for the printing we need to leave the cover available for advertising aswell so we'll maybe have something that says the profit will be donated to .......... Ah so I's probably well out of the drift but B*ggered if I was going to sift through 30 something pages of posts. Advertising? Must be a few people with businessess on this site who'd pay something just to have a single line & phone number in small print somewhere on a list on the back or something . Sort of like, "Rat a Rid Pest Control .RingOOOOO" ,or"Dr Dick Trimmer ,specialis
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er "Big warrens"?, 10 maybe 15 holes ! Don't know your ground but assuming there are no weird underground conditions ,these are tiny,weeny ,baby buries. No problem. Just be sensible ,be quiet, start early in the day so if the worse happens and you have a lay-up you have plenty of daylight to keep watch in and for heaven's sake feed your ferret so its not hungry. You don't have to dig massive trenches if you use a liner if you learn to read the warrens via the line. You will learn a lot more about the multi-levels &twists and turns of rabbit workings by using a line
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Strong stomachs only!Mangy fox.
comanche replied to comanche's topic in Wildlife and General Photography
I think they were both at the stage where they'd given-up on life really . Obviously stopped grooming themselves . I don't know but I guess the mange itself is'nt the killer but the sheer discomfort and stress plus various secondary infections ,blood poisoning, maybe Weils entering the sores ,the fox equivilent of MSRA ,that sort of thing I suppose finishes the job. -
Mickleham stretch? The Box hill bit could be fun .Plenty of small chub and catchable roach/dace/perch etc to keep the interest up and always the chance of the odd better fish as a bonus but I'm going back some years. For this sort of fishing and piking I'd probably go for a minimal tackle ,mobile approach,move-on when a swim goes dead but of barbel I have no real experience so barbus has to be" the man", although I did hook and lose one in my local millstream once ! How it got there one can only guess. Pike do detect deadbaits by scent .I've watched pike home-in on a dead fish and v
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Crikey! mind you the Mole used to hold decent shoals of bream and turned-up some nice chub up to 5lb (ok so I saw some caught ,I did'nt get one meself )so the feed ing must be quite good.
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Lady flagged me down outside the local shop having seen the sign on the van, and asked",If I did foxes." Turned out she were from "t' Big House ",(a 15th century affair only about 300 yards from me) and had two really manky foxes visiting her large garden. I followed her ,stopping only to pick up a cage-trap from my house. Didn't need it . The obligatory site survey kicked up the fact that both foxes were laid -up in two separate log-sheds .Quick bit of gap blocking and a trip home for the .410 sorted the situation .I wish all jobs were so convenient ..and successful! Poor old f
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Done a bit on the Mole because my mate used to live at Dorking. There wer'nt any barbel around the stretch we fished but the last few years have seen a lot of fish movements round the country so who knows now. The pike seemed to really like those rubber shad lures .The big six/seven inch ones. We'd thread a wire trace through the lure and tie a couple of trebles onto the trace using beads to stop them being pulled back into the rubber of the lure. then push a weight into the breast of the lure to act as a keel. This way the shad can be fished in a much more natural way than if the stan