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    I remember when l was a Keeper we were told to look out for dead rabbits in odd circumstances. Sure enough we found a few corpses that caught the attention as being a bit odd ;unmarked rabbits leaning against logs, some on their sides, others sitting like they were still alive ! Without much thought the unexplained deaths were casually reported to the Boss and we got on with our work. This was just prior to the initial recognition of VHD , the "first" version . Though l think we called it Viral hemorrhagic pneumonia at the time. There were all sorts of theories and sp
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    Very true..rabbits can stand very cold weather as long they have food. They don't do well in lengthy cold wet conditions. The stress of constant chills and discomfort triggers a weakened immunity to coccidiosis and other diseases. By the winter of 2010/11 I had been lucky to have spent several Seasons ferreting by kind invitation of another Hunting Life member on some very good permission . That winter we had ferrets lay-up on skinny frozen corpses . It was a similar story in my own area. Back when dinosaurs ruled the Earth and l first started ferreting local
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    My belief ,based on a little bit of inside information is that the massive rabbit numbers of about 13 years ago crashed due to the cold winter of 2010/11 combined with a sowing of a certain strain of VHD. And due to the very short lived immunity to the disease that is conferred on the survivors of the disease and their offspring , young rabbits are lucky to live long enough to produce a single litter before expiring. Hence the population in affected areas isn't strong enough to negate the effects of other diseases ,hunting, predators and bad weather.
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    Saying "Squeak Piggy" and "Sure has a Pretty mouth." Just gets blank looks from people these days . Deliverence was a one of a kind film for sure . Burt Reynolds claimed that it was filmed in running sequence in case any of the actors were killed doing their own stunts and they had to change the script. Am l the only one that noticed that one scene featured a Ford Anglia !
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    Oops, pressed submit before l meant to. Neither of us dared to look round to see what was there. The conversation went something like "You look. " "No you look." "Fxck off." "No you fxck off. I'm driving." So we sat staring straight ahead as the car passed through the next village and the next. All the time the stench grew more overbearing. My hands were sweating on the wheel and my girlfriend was sobbing and shaking. Then as quick as we hit the lights of our home town the thing was gone . It was like something had been lifted from us . We went fro
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    I was driving along a country road late at night in my first car ,a ratty 1963 Humber Sceptre, after an evening out with my girlfriend . Even though it was 1979 l can still recall what happened all too clearly. We were on a section of dark road between two villages .Just before the brow of the hill that would take us down to the next village what l can only describe as a dark mass ,a bit shapeless but recognisably a figure appeared in the gutter . The bit of road was fairly straight and the verge wide and level . I wasn't going very fast and the headlights would've picked-u
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    My Granddaughter gave me one for Christmas. She found it in a charity shop! As to the defaced roadsign; well surely the Highways dept would've had it down in a couple of days anyway .
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    The ghost hunting TV shows are dead naff. I've had some experiences that have me believing in what l think are actually not "super natural" but a part of nature that we don't really usually relate to . I had one which at the time was terrifying but the others were quite calm experiences , almost matter of fact. Here's just one story .It's no big deal if l'm not believed . It's the time of year for ghost stories anyway So l was working in a pheasant farm, feeding poults in a rearing shed. Down the aisle comes an old chap that l knew as a customer who had ordered a co
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    Well l guess you either put up with the dog dropping rabbits out of reach , not giving up its catch at all or in this case eating the bunny! Or you put a bit of work in and either polish up any natural retrieving tendency or teach or re teach it from scratch . I'm not an expert but l have owned a dog that pretty much ate the first rabbit it caught . It wasn't being willful it was just exercising an element of it's upbringing l had overlooked in training. The guy who bred the litter hadn't had many takers for the pups so the pup was quite well grown when l got her. The litter
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    Before getting into quick fixes or witchcraft the obvious things to try are practicing recall and retrieving with fur . Don't settle for scrappy retrieves where the dog drops the item at your feet or does the circling or hanging-back "play with me" thing A dog that gets away with junky retrieves in the sitting room or garden is likely to be even worse in a field. Once you have the dog retrieving inedible objects move onto a fur dummy . Then try a dead squirrel as a dummy. They are the perfect size and balance . Then the big day when you bring out the dead bunny dumm
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    I relented and googled . The figure of 50,000+ thousand redundant galgos being strangled etc looks a bit questionable. Most of them are simply neglected, often to death, or dumped. Which is pretty bad of course. The really unfortunate ones belong to superstitious owners who believe that giving their dog a horrid ,slow death somehow passes some sort of power to its replacement for the coming Season. A bit like some Native American tribes who believed that a captive who endured lengthy torture before death brought good luck. It's hard to believe that the gamblers and owners who v
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    I texted my Grand daughter earlier after reading bits of this thread. She volunteers at a local sight hound rescue and rehoming organisation. She spoke to the woman that runs it and the story l got back ,via text so not too in depth , is that galgos are generally treated like our racing greyhounds. The youngsters get tried out for a Season or so on the coursing grounds and just like our racing greyhounds ,they get retired very quickly . Betting is big business and the dogs are just expendable pawns to be replaced every Season. Euthanasing them in such odd ways se
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    I had a few weeks driving for a piling firm based in Sussex that had a big job on in North London. Every morning l would set off in a crappy transit pick-up loaded with stuff like augars, digger buckets ,barrels of diesel and rebar. I disliked the boss and the vehicle was a police magnet . The only rays of sunshine were the Irish guys on site . A bit scary on first meeting but everyone was a character. Their Forman was huge and very intimidating . One morning he told me that l was to stay and work on site rather than drive onto my next drop and that it had been squared with the Boss. Wh
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    Another thing is that as you got the dog at 14/15 months you probably inherited a few problems instilled by the previous owner. So don't take it personally or assume your methods are wrong . Even if you have to persevere with basic training and hold off working it for a year it's better than having a dog that's a pain for the next ten years.
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    A favourite toy , lots of love and cuddles ,tummy tickles and perseverance . Never be afraid of looking like a soft , gay , dick in public . Love your dog and hopefully it'll love you. Teaching it heelwork on and off the lead is a big must. Too many dogs hear the click of a lead coming off and think they are free to do what they like! I've a pup that's a willful little cow at the moment so it'll be plenty of loving discipline for quite a while before she gets too much free running. One thing that sometimes helps when the dog pxsses you off is to actually tell it to bxgger off, wave it
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    Darwinism? An African guy in a nearby sleepy Sussex village had a lion . My brother knows his son ; I'm going to try to remember to ask what happened to it. I'll leave it to my brother as both Father and son ,and probably the lion were/are pretty "hard" characters!
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    No,they left the cat Probably knew it would be hard to shift with the 76 Wild Animal Act in the air.
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    A while ago l posted some newspaper cuttings about a pet puma kept by a local chap in the 1970's. It was never proved but it seemed likely that it had been briefly on the loose and responsible for some horse riders being frightened . This incident is still included in the list of big cat sightings in the UK . By chance this week l did a job for an elderly couple who still live next door to where the puma was kept and was given a bit more information. Apparently the owner also briefly owned a lion that was kept on a chain in the front garden. Both cats eventually went to zoos but n
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    Mm. The guy spends the video walking along roadsides waving a tape measure yet when the black mog is pictured the tape is seemingly unavailable. Perhaps he dropped it and it broke when it hit one of those "massive " kerbstones . Seen from the wider perspectives shown in the video the critter can be sized not only by the kerb, white line, carriageway width and plants, but also the granite in the tarmac. It's not anything special.
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    Were there images of it laid out properly next to a tape measure? That's surely one of the first things any one would do if they found a four and a half foot cat! Another would be to send it to the Natural History museum for confirmation . Certainly if you look at the perspective of the picture there is nothing to support it being the claimed size.. Also having read a bit more ,the Kellas cat thing looks a bit overblown . Basically they are just a mongrel Wildcat that favour the black gene and - claimed monster road kill aside- are no bigger than a Wildcat. I wou
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    So it wasn't actually measured? Just estimated from a bad picture ? And is there a hint of photo repair? It's a pity.
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    The one on the snow looks nothing like a domestic cat to me . I'm curious about the cat caught on the new trail cam. Was that the only picture? Or the best picture? From the position it's in it looks like it had already possibly past closer to the camera and might've afforded a better picture. That is of course if the camera had been set to take a series of shots . Which l think is what most people with trail cams do. I'm not knocking the big cat thing by the way ;l find it interesting. As to that road casualty Kellas cat ; a 90 cm body is truly impressive! Unless it had
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    Blooming puppy has been taking "selfies " .
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