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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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"Toad Benjamin !"
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Who staked out the pied dog in background as bait ?
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Really sorry to disagree but my living depends on a working legal knowledge. Had hoped someone else would have come foreward before some numpty shoots a pet cat and tries to quote the "Road traffic act " in court.Believe me the Prosecution will be quoting the Theft Act ,The Property Act,Criminal Damage etc .I dislike feral and straying pet cats as much as anyone involved in conservation and Keepering but please believe me. Cats of the pet and show variety are Property and as such protected.
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Really sorry to disagree but my living depends on a working legal knowledge. Had hoped someone else would have come foreward before some numpty shoots a pet cat and tries to quote the "Road traffic act " in court.Believe me the Prosecution will be quoting the Theft Act ,The Property Act,Criminal Damage etc .I dislike feral and straying pet cats as much as anyone involved in conservation and Keepering but please believe me. Cats of the pet and show variety are Property and as such protected.
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Maybe one of the RSPCA monitors can put us straight on this ?
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Might seem a strange question but you have permission right up to the disused railway.Permission for what? You don't seem to have any rabbiting gear or knowledge. It's probably me being a bit thick.
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It doesn't matter if the cat's feral of not. It's classed the same as a feral, as soon as it leaves the owners property, or so I've been led to believe. Cats are unique in that they remain their owner's property unless deliberatly abandoned (illegal)or given up as lost but are legally regarded as uncontrolable by nature. Therefore an owner is not responsible for its actions. To kill one that is known to be or likely to be a wandering pet is illegal. It is someones property.Shooting a child's pet is likely to set them onto the road to being an anti . A defence might be that the cat was
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I put an SR 500 motor in a BSA frame but the electronic ignition died last year just as the jasper season started .Must find a "window" as they say so I can fix it.
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That's all I would have added Woodga - a solid steel sheet door would stop that, or a locking device. I have also had experience of cats clawing through the mesh to get the bait and setting it off (watched them do it), a quick second wrap with 1/2" x 1" fine mesh at the bait end would stop that too. It looks heavy which is good from the point of view that the fox cannot tip it once he's in and get out that way which also happens - that can be avoided by a foot long wire staple put through the base into the ground at the front and back. OTC How did you join the edges of the wir
