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Well done mate, looks good land for the dogs as well. What x / breed are they?
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Cheers guys, to be fair, i think he is just that kind of dog. He is pretty hardy as whippets go, great feet (touch wood) and a decent enough skin, for the breed, and a tough little bugger. But unfortunately he has too much drive and dedication and not enough awareness of obstacles when on game, he just doesn;t think about or see anything other than the rabbit. If he was a bigger dog, he would be an absolute machine. As it goes, i just hope he makes old bones, and one day in the far far future i might put him over a very sturdy, taller, rough coated bitch, and breed a ferreting dog with his fir
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Bang on brother!
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hour out this morning bolting to the lurcher
Ideation replied to On the drum again's topic in Ferrets & Ferreting
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Yes mate, it worked for a while, needed a spaniel training pen, and wanted it in a certain spot where there was no warren already . . . . .
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BUMP! The campaign continues. . . . Although i have noticed that in the last 24 hours we have suddenly started getting some proper ferreting threads! Well done guys!
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Ah shit mate, sorry to hear it. Never nice.
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As some of you probably know, my dog f****d himself up last thursday, hitting a piece of barbed wire strung just above the ground, flat out. Luckily it was pretty close to where he had taken off from so wasn't running flat out, but still, he hit it head on and lost his good looks forever, a long with a chunk of his front leg. Anyway, he has had a bucket on for a week now, and has been miserable, getting only lead walks along the roads, and seeing no action. Last couple of days he has been really bad, whining at the door, going out and staring at the ferrets and generally trying to incite
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:laugh: I'm not joking mate, released a dozen rabbits into a pen with a few holes dug and they did the rest in quick time.
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hour out this morning bolting to the lurcher
Ideation replied to On the drum again's topic in Ferrets & Ferreting
Oi oi matey, good to see you again, from what i can see, the dog looks like it can do it's job, looking forward to seeing it in the flesh. What's it like around stinkers? And how does it like the mad terrier? We should have a day and do a bit of bushing sometime when my fecking whippet has healed . . . . AGAIN! -
Oh and just for the record, if you use drainage pipe, how the feck is the ferret meant to know if it's above ground in a pipe or underground in a pipe???
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We used to have one - we used rabbits to make it. Job done!
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Not anymore mate!
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Labs. . . . for hunting cover.
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I definatly think that the advent of collars has meant that folk are more inclined to breed from ferrets that kill in a lot. Not that i am knocking it. It's funny though because the ferrets we use can definatly kill quick if they decide to, but seem to do anything in their power to not have to, or maybe i am reading too much into it. I couldn't be doing with having to get the spade out on every set. One more funny thing - i have also noticed that my jills like to take above ground shortcuts, i.e they will surface, run across the top of the warren and dive back to ground at a spot c
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To be fair i think a general ferreting and a hunting trips section would be good enough, f**k the ferret fondelers, this is a HUNTING site, and they can always ask their questions in the general ferreting section. My biggest gripe is all the 'wind ups' and 'sales pitches' MALT FOR MOD. (The revolution has begun . . . . ) p.s - I hope you don't mind all this Malt haha too late now!
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It's a very handy thing really, it greats maximum pain and confusion for old bunnykins, with minimum actual damage (leading to a kill in). It's one hell of a battle when you think about it, my jills weigh on average 500-800 grams, and the bunnies often around 1500-2000 grams, and as stealthy1 says, they have some really mean claws on then, not to mention the teeth. So to make your way blind a long a tunnel, and then get boxed to feck by something that weighs 3/4 times more than you, lock onto it with your mouth and roll around like a mad thing, all in the dark, takes some balls. If
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Just another thing, i like to get down on my knees and dig, hence the short handled shovel. It gives more control, and the box always seems to over state the depths, so by using it like this, rather than standing up and using my boot to plunge it in, i feel there is less chance of cutting a stinker in two. PJ - r.e economising - if you shop around you should be able to get a decent shovel for 10-15 quid max, which evened out over a few seasons is f**k all.
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I get the instinct to go for the soft bit first, but it's funny that they seem to do that and then stand back and wait to see if the bunny will bolt. They are quite capable of killing, but choose to inflict less damage initially. They seem to whip out the eyes in passing just to help things a long. Seen the larger jill chomp straight through the top of the skull / forehead a few times, when she has had enough f*****g about, and also had her surface to kill rabbits in nets when i have been occupied and had a couple bolt at once, she comes up, kills it then goes back down. Weird. Last su
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Ok, so this might sound a bit weird, but bear with me. . . . I go out quite a lot with johnnyboy68 as many of you know. We use a range of ferrets, mostly jills, and we get on top of a decent number of rabbits between us each season. I use locators, he doesn't so much (his land he does solo doesn't really require it as the sets are small), we always carry a shovel. But in general, we get very few digs. Last season, we could probably count them on one hand, this season we have had a few more so far, but i think maybe only a couple. The jills we use, WILL NOT, leave a live bunny, alt
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Does me proud sunshine!
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The link i put says yes, better than us, not as good as a cat, for those that can't be arsed reading it.
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http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/11/071108140336.htm
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Aye mate, a kind of 'recommended classifieds' section would be good - with decent dog vets, vets that have a scooby about ferrets, places to get feed, medical stuff, moon and weather reports that are acurate, places to get equipment for the best price etc etc
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Fcucktheban - aye, questionable. . . . The for sale section - i think it has to be useful for some folk, i mean if you don't know anyone in the dog world, you have more chance of ending up with a decent pup off hear if you bide your time and do your research, than off e-pupz or the free ads. Facebook - being linked to this site was a really really bad idea in so so so many ways. WHY?????? Dotty - would be a brilliant mod - harsh but fair.
