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    Getting a dog of the cross or type that you really fancy owning helps.I don't mean anything silly like buying a sausage-dog because you love the way they look and than being upset when it fails to perform well at the high jump. Imagine you have an albeit unexplainable urge for , say, a Bengal tiger-hamster cross but the bloke down the road says its a rubbish cross but his wife has a litter of aardvark-gerbils for sale and he persuades you to buy one. Anyway the Bengal tiger-hamster crosses arn'nt ready for another month.Soon as the aardvark/gerbil shows a problem with wor
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    Sorry for being obvious but do check your gun will take 3 inchers .Most modern ones will but still check.
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    Crikey.It was over 24 hours ago that the poor guy asked for advice about a girl who seemed intent upon forcing her bestial attententions upon his inocent young flesh .I wonder if he is still alive even!
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    Rough coated too .All that greyhound a whippet blood .What a powerfull genes that little bedlington had.! Bound to take 100 bunnies a night,carry em back to the van ,skin em for you and while you have a doze the dog will be on the phone to the game dealer.All at six months .
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    Ibred a litter from a 22" coursing whippet(by Chancerick Casper) and my collie bitch getting on for 30 years ago.My brother kept one back .Lovely dog ,pity my wayward bro(bless im) did'nt actually bother training him because he was a great self-taught rabbiting dog .In the "right hands" and all that .
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    I don't think how many moles a trap has killed actually matters. It is obviously the number of times and length of time a trap spends under tension that fatigues the spring. My traps sometimes spend an embarrassing length of time under tension.
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    I've bolted a mink whilst ferreting rabbits .It popped out either through or under the net and bounded off. On another occasion, having bolted a rabbit the ferret layed- up and while I was trying to lure it out a mink had a go at the dead rabbit I was using as bait. It was inches from my face ,hissing at me.Bit of a shock.(actually I squealed like a toddler .) Eventually the ferret came out ,tail all bottle-brushed but the mink stayed put.
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    Can't ye? Have ye tried? Bodiss. Bethal Rhodes. Eliza Tinsley are a few possibilities that ~ oh f*ck ~ spring to mind Thanks .I'm making notes of those." Spring to mind" ?
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    The main contention that I would have is that the public must be able to access this stuff very very easily.I have a very catchy ad(So I'm told by the odd customers that actually stumbled across it) for my services somewhere on the web.After being told that "everyone does it on the web nowadays" by the salesman for the Trade directory I joined .Blooming waste of time because the site is not visible or promoted enough .
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    My daughter gave me this guys( or maybe another " 20 sets and chuck guy "because he did'nt favour the scissor trap)) book for Christmas..He gives the impression he favours the better quality of Duffus style trap. Won't slag anything he wrote off because though I've been catching moles as part of my living for many years I'm far from being a specialist at the game. In fact I found some bits of the book usefull. The bit about throwing away traps did puzzle me though. I obviously would'nt use one I thought was'nt powerfull enough .One of my old lady customers gave me a rusty thing her dad las
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    I think it is totally iresponsible to make any post involving the percieved abuse of lightbulbs (light -bulbs ,lamps etc) .This is just the sort thing the antis love.
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    Any one who goes on or presents a reality Tv show. Starting with those drunken ,sweaty t*ssers who prop each other up on those "Ibiza Exposed" junk-shows.You know the ones .They start off saying how only a tru Brit can hold his drink abroad before hurling up into the handbag of some knickerless slapper he picked out of the gutter three minutes before... Then there are the F listed "entertainers" clammering to ward off bankruptcy by an appearance on Celebrity Big Camp Island". Paul (The Rock) Burrell should 've been staked over an ants nest Apache style with a trail of Tate n Lyle Golden syrup
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    Pretty little dog. Just a thought . You say she retrieves in training sessions and comes when whistled. Why not take her out in the garden or even better a safe open space with no bunnies.Council tennis courts are usually deserted at night ( :whistling:So I've been told. ) Chuck your dummy in the dark.Spot it in the lamp and send pup for it . Once she's confident at this try a few variations. Send her down the beam ,let her go only a few yards ,shut off the light and at exactly the same time give a subtle whistle to get her back .Keep it varied .Sometimes let her do a retrieve,sometimes se
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    Et did'nt go home .He got a job field-testing a well known brand of cammo gear.
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    you saw a hare taking a kid to school? Great picture.
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    Yeh ,The Scottish puma,Age& condition predicted from tracks before it was captured ,The IOW cats killed in a poultry run,several" jungle cat "RTA's, a clouded leopard(I think) from Aspinalls zoo that lived rough for nearly a year before it was shot for sheep-killing ---these things have been witnessed and recorded. Of course the Isle of Sheppey ear-eating ,sheep killer apparently turned out to be a saluki. Thirty years ago people derided the rumours of wild boar in this country!
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    Lucky? No mate you probably know what you are doing.. Lots of books recomend careful use of food. If your way works stick with it.Touch wood I've never had a lasting problem teaching retrieving either but sometimes it has take time.Seems with dogs that the longer you hang round them the more you realise there is to learn. Don't think my methods are that quick but once learned they seems to stick.Charlie Wyatt -the great GSD trainer writes of retrieving training ",if after a few weeks of this the dog still refuses to retrieve it is time to try another method" A few weeks! There is hope for
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    Why don't you find the poo? Obviously someone comes along and empties the litter tray. Seriously though I would'nt recognise lion/puma/leopard/lynx /etc poo unless i saw it popping in a feotid, steamy heap from a dilated Felis s bum. What we need is for one of old Jonny Kingdoms pet boarlets to be knocked over on infra-red camera by a fine specimen of felis concolour or such !. Sure DS and others will be able to help with a question I've had in my head for some years. "The Aldrich Spring Activated snare" I've never seen one so don't have a clue how big an animal it can cope with. It is ap
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    Round here a while back we had a wolf ,I saw it ,it even got in a mate's chicken run and he scared it off by firing into the air with his 12 bore.Farm manager's little girl announced that she'd spent the morning playing with the Alsation in the yard."What Alsation?" he asked. The thing was always getting lose from it' eccentric owner in the local gothic mansion and was known to wander several miles from home. Few years ago I saw a lion in the same area. Ten foot long ,orange. About 200 yds away basking in the fading evening sunlight in a scrubby field .Ducking ,using the wind and
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    I do agree with you.Retrieving is a combination of willingness to carry and good recall training. It's good when it comes together.I've had dogs that seem to have relished exposing my failures as a trainer all too often though .
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    JDarcy 's advice is good .Get the dog carrying .Put the dummy in its mouth (make sure it is not too big or unbalenced )Walk it in on the lead at heel with dummy in mouth. Stop and on your command ,not before , have the pup release the dummyto you.Practise and praise .Next step is to make dog sit on a long lead with the dummy in its mouth and call it to you.Then try laying the dummy on the floor between you and the pup.Hopefully it will pick it up on the way to you. If the pup is still shy about picking the dummy up make it a game.Put a lure on a rope and have the pup chase it.When she catches
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    Used to get quite a few pairs in the old style wire mesh" lobster pot"pheasant catchers baited with wheat .As jays are great seed eaters everyones suggestion of maize seems a good one or even peanuts? Pity these jays of yours are up to no good I reckon they are one of our most beautifull birds.
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    I 'm not sure that it is the same book because this one quotes the sightings I read about in my local paper mid seventies. Although it includes earlier cases/quotes sightings by police etc.Definatly a big chapter on "big cats",hard back but paperpack size and thickish.On the other hand there was another book of a similar ilk that I remember reading ,as you say of a more "Natural History " type.(the porcupines are so familiar ,and Sussexwallabies )I'll check it may be mentioned in a Bibliograghy at the back of Alien Animals. I'll let you know.
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    Crikey .that's a cat n a half! Believe I saw a picture of one or maybe two servals shot in a chicken run on the IOW a few years ago . Cats they might've been , but they hardly qualified for the title "Big". A few sightings round here in the mid seventies ..These are actually mentioned in a book that I think is called "Alien Animals" .Fairly sure it does have a little map showing sightings .I've got it somewhere in the loft so I'll check when I get home. Is this the book DS is thinking of? That brings us onto another variation on the "big cat"theme.That they truly are aliens or ghostly image
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    I pretty much agree. Not going to run down another chaps choice either. Especially as I don't know the topography of his land,the local circumstances ,skill-levels and ranges involved. One point that I think is relevant is that because the price of .22 ammo is so reasonable it is easy to practice and experiment until one is quite closely in tune with the rifle .Old -fashioned field craft and calling skills can be as important with a .22 as the skill for long-range shots and an interest in ballistics is to the users of bigger calibres. Another point is that foxes are very vunerable to a well
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