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    Yer mate, i know that i'm not going to find much better, but it doesnt have to be a pickup, its the size and weight of the double cab that makes them so bad on fuel.
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    Old Law from 1954 Pest act and later 1972 Rabbit Clearence order #148. No longer really enforcable, as was highlighted by Rail Track case. Now it is simply "An occupier within a rabbit clearance area has unrestricted rights to kill rabbits on his land by any lawful means" rather than a 'duty'.
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    With ever rising fuel prices the time has come to change my truck! At the moment i'm using a double cab pick up and although great in most ways it really drinks the juice. I have decided that i cant really afford to run it anymore. So i'm looking for some advice on a more fuel efficient vehicle, but one that is still 4X4 (and can actually handle/perform well off road), has decent clearence, can take at least two folk, and 4 dogs (+ kit), and won't need constant money/time spent fixing it. Any ideas???
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    Get yourself a good dog! I do a lot of ferreting on my own and couldn't/wouldn't do it without the mutt. Apart from marking, which is an obvious godsend! (i really do not understand how people can ferret without a marking dog? It must DO YOUR HEAD IN!!!) he is worth a couple of blokes around the holes. He marks the set and the hole which the rabbit/s are nearest to, and then when i net up i stick the ferret into this hole, usually meaning a reletivly fast bolt. Usually if there isnt an immediate bolt, i stand off the set, sometimes a few yards away from it (but with a view of the whole thing),
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    Just like any other animal i'd leave it be if it was having a shit, eating or just woke up, if you dont know the ferret that well. If its a new ferret, feed it up before you handle it, its less likely to nip you then. Apart from that just handle as much as possible, i can pick mine up still sleeping ( i have a narcoleptic ferret!) and wake them up in my hands and they are fine, hold them upside down, folded up, in a ball, under my arm, in my pockets, on the shoulder - whatever i like. Once they are used to you they are bomb proof little things. Mine particularly like standing on your head.
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    Cheers lads!
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    Aye my whippet does it, and it always amuses me to look behind us up the lane to see what looks like the trail of a one footed dog, making its way merrily a long.
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    Its spot on.
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    Does anyone know where you can get free/cheap business cards printed on the internet? Cheers
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    It seems that way mate. Its not going to be a problem if you trust your own judgement is it. It's not like because someone pms you, you HAVE to immediately get them round your yard. Or in fact meet them at all. I wouldnt go out with most of the folk off here but there are some i would love to have a walk out with and my main ferreting/mooching partner is someone i met through here. As long as you use your brains and common sense you should be fine. And no ones forcing you to stick your town/location up, but your still writing all over the thread having a moan and trying to start som
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    my thoughts exactly Cos knowing that there is a man in suffolk called 'foxdigger13' is really going to start the wheels in motion. . . . . . Get over your paranoia. If you dont want to post then dont.
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    I'm sure to get some stick, but a whole fresh rabbit will be ok for a couple of days easy during the winter. SUmmer obviously not, but a gutted rabbit in winter wont go off in three days. I'd chuck it on the third tho (if it wasnt all eaten). This aint winter now tho.
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    Not being funny mate but if you put just a tiny bit of effort in to find a vac hob etc then you will save a lot of money. Even three lots of jill jabs would probably be cheaper than the cost of raising 30 + kits. And if anything goes wrong for any of the jills then the cost of the vets will eclipse the lads. There is also the thought that when entering into keeping any animas you have a responsibility to ensure you can sufficiently care for them. . . . . .
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    I AM f*****g BORED!

    1. leepieman123

      leepieman123

      take finn out then lol

    2. Lab

      Lab

      Thats not how you spell 'Boring'.....lol

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    My one piece of advice and its always the same - once you have decided what sort of dog you would like (roughly) then look about for the BEST possible litters you can find (with regard to breeding and rearing), for pups bred from two dogs that are both achieving on a regular basis what you wish your dog to end up doing. And whatever you do, do not pick a dog from a substandard litter just because its the x/strain you thought you wanted.
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    Doesn't cur just basically mean the same as 'mongrel', but in the states, it's used to describe mixed breed hound type dogs used as all round utility/hunting dogs.
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    He's spot on with a calculator but not so hot off the top of his head.
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    Heres a tip mate. Try holding the rabbit by the back legs, hanging down, in the left hand, with the rabbits back pointing to your right and its belly to your left. Then with your right hand, hold your fingers together and give a sharp, firm, decisive chop to the back of its neck/head. One chop should kill it, but you can tell because when it is alive the ears will lie along its back, and when it dies its ears will flop down to point out at right angles to the body. Does that make sense? You can also do this is the net which is what i do, kill quick, spare net on and untangle while waiting for
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    Aye mate, crack on, i used to bring my ferrets into the kitchen a fair bit and do now with kits, mine live in a court so they have plenty of room, but its good socializing. If the weather is ok i'd rather have them run around the veg patch tho. Don't do it with the adults any more because it makes a mess and accidents can happen, i once found one of my jills walking about chewing on a fruit gun Also its a bit hectic having a fast working ferret scuttling about climbing all over the place. But its better that than no handle them
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    Take 2/3 of those pups in a years time and a couple of sets of those ozzy chest gaurds and go see if they can um. . . . retrieve, a boar. Could have yourself a whole lot of fun.
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    Aye, looked a nice lad and a tidy spaniel. Poor fuckers
  22. Ideation
    Ferrets in the house. . . .fun for at least the first five mins.
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    Do you know where he was from or what the bitches real name was or what color? Think i know man and beast. brown and white she was, ebbw vale i think it. Aye i've spoken to carl, its the same carl i was thinking of. His bitch is a tidy wee thing, great little ferreting bitch, nice size, and a mind of her own!
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    Aye mate, it should be a cracking litter. A lot of time and effort has gone into finding the right stud, and the bitch and prospective stud have both done several seasons of hard graft day and night. If he ends up with one, he will be a lucky lad
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    Right i'm going to be blunt now. Your a f*****g fool for completely ignoring the advice given. You must be a f*****g kid, cos your acting like one. Folk are not bullying you, they dont really give a f**k about you, they are just concerned with the welfare of the ferrets, and the general ferreting world / ferret populace. It doesn't really need idiots breeding from young untested pish just to try make some cash.
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