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  6. Badger In France

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    Why dig it ti let it go, thats what I think gives hnting a bad name because its principally baiting

    got to agree. if you dig it up just to let it go you dont have a leg to stand on when Mr Townie comes along and says its cruel because your only doing it for your own pleasure imo. either do the job properly or dont do it at all.

     

     

    too many people take the sport to heart it's not a job,,,,,, it's a HOBBY,,,,, you don't shoot yourself on the foot for the next time when hunting and if you do kill/shoot all try put back in what you take out it keeps the circle going :thumbs:

     

    your never going to dig to every single fox in the are in one winter anyway are you? If you were out with the terriers every day smashing every set in sight then i can see your point. but foxes spend most of their time above ground so using a terrier isnt going to wipe them out.

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  7. Badger In France

    in Hunting Video Clips

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    Why dig it ti let it go, thats what I think gives hnting a bad name because its principally baiting

    got to agree. if you dig it up just to let it go you dont have a leg to stand on when Mr Townie comes along and says its cruel because your only doing it for your own pleasure imo. either do the job properly or dont do it at all.

  13. The Man Who Eats Roadkill

    in General Talk

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    I recon that bloke has eaten human flesh,but wont admit it for fear of encrimination etc etc..but the way he describes it sounds to me like theres no way he would have refused it.

    its funny you say that, didnt see any sign of his wife in that video..

  16. Badger Cull 2013

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    I don't get how a badger cull will erradicate bTB when there are a whole other multitude of creatures that harbour and spread it. Deer, wild boar, cats, dogs, rats and alpacas are just a few, so why aren't measures being put in place to cull these alongside an improvement of animal husbandry?

     

    The previous cull provided conclusive evidence that it made no difference to the numbers of bTB cases in the trialled area. I fear this is just a way of giving in the nutty NFU leadership team and hiding the fact that hundreds of millions of public money has been wasted on research, compensation and development for an innoculation but the best they can come up with is a vaccine that shows a positive result to the bTB test activator. This is just a cheaper alternative to trapping and vaccinating the badgers for which there IS a verified vaccine. Sure Brian May is a bit of a dick but I don't think a cull is the way to manage this. Maybe of the farmers stopped spreading confirmed infected slurry from their pits into their fields as fertiliser that would be a big step in the right direction. Plenty of farmers have badgers living on their land and have yet to see and outbreak case on their land.

    To be fair I haven't read enough of the evidence/alternatives to reducing bTB to debate the suggestions your making BUT taking on board the areas you've highlighted such as spreading slurry and animal husbandry why would it make sense to spend even more money vaccinating a pest species rather than culling?

     

     

    Badgers are a pest species? Where is that stated? What pest activity do they carry out?

     

    Why would it make more sense to wipe out a species that has perfectly adequate vaccine to prevent the individual becoming a host or transport? Under that argument anyone with a common cold should be terminated to prevent the spread of the virus but unlike witht he common cold bTB has a multitude of carriers across various species.

     

    The "science" behidn the cull proposition suggests that bTB cases will reduce by 16%. WTF is causing the 84% then and why aren't folk looking at the causes of the larger sections instead of wiping out something that causes just 16%?

     

    DEFRA themselves only 5yrs ago stated that the common single intradermal comparative cervical tuberculin (SICCT) test which is used on British cattle had more than positive results (pardon th pun) - "Many countries have eradicated bTB through the systematic application of the tuberculin skin test alone and the slaughter of all test reactors."

    No culling of any wildlife required.

     

    http://archive.defra.gov.uk/foodfarm/farmanimal/diseases/atoz/tb/control/tuberculin.htm

     

    The issue lies in intensive farming which a result fo consumer demands. Demands for cheaper and cheaper produce has meant that farmers have to cram as many animals as they can the turn a profit which is bound to backfire somewhere along the lines and in this case the badger is to blame and must face the brunt of the blinkered people who can not accpet that consumer behaviour has to change in ordre for farming practices to change in order for the catalysts for bTB to be reduced. This will focus on the 84% reduction factors and not the 16% factors.

    The only thing the 16% factors focus on is to give some relief to those who wish to blast all and sundry in the countryside to bits who feel they have had a involuntary vaccectomy since the hunting ban came in. They just can't get enough popping off the odd bit here and there, they want the feeling of being able to shoot something different and as shooting badgers hasn't been legal since the last ice age it's new and exciting to them rather than them thinking "Hang on, we had badgers and cattle on this land for millenia and yet this is a relatively new thing?"

     

    Vets are even holding their hands up and saying "We are sorry we didn;t spot bTB In cats and dogs earlier!" and the pro-cullers are coming back with "Shhh! There's badgers to kill!"

     

    This cull will not serve as anything except to take out a link in our natural wildife which could have disasterous knock effects for other species you ARE allowed to shoot legally.

     

    Taking aside your views on the effectiveness of a cull in regards to bTB. Do you genuinly believe in the current numbers that Badgers are not a pest species that don't need controlling?

     

     

    My views? These aren't just my views these are the views of the same scientists that carried out the last test cull and the independent scientists that reviewed their findings and the views of the leading ministry scientists that were consulted on the matter but then others with a pro-cull opinion came in to fudge the actual science. DEFRA themselves were looking away from badgers only 5 years ago, nowe all of a sudden they have changed their whole ethos?

     

    Controlling. That would be a cull. This isn't going to be a cull though, its more like a persecution.

     

    its not hard for a scientist to sit in his lab researching all these figures and coming to a conclusion, to me that means f**k all. you only need to spend a bit of time out in the country day and night almost anywhere in the country to realize badger numbers are too high and they need to be culled.

    it makes my blood boil to think people wont back and support farmers that are dying on their feet to protect a pest such as a badger.

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  18. My New Mutt

    in Lurchers & Running Dogs

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    nice looking dog mate, my collie x that I have now I had him when he was about 5 year old. took a few months to bond with the dog but after that hes just as loyal and listens just as good as the pup i have had from 7 weeks old. hope she does you well.

  22. Rescue Dogs

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    if you are new to the game and looking for a dog to learn with I would recommend a dog that has had a few seasons under its belt that know what its doing. my first dog was a whippet collie grey and was about 5/6 years old when I got him and he has taught me most of what i know now.

    Rescuing a dog seems like a good thing to do but its a big risk to take if you want to work the dog because if its a lurcher type dog in the rescue center in the first place there might be a reason why its there to start with. (jacked with previous owner)

    Thats just my opinion but good luck in whatever you decide to do.

     

    I'd say that you will learn less with a ready made dog first time around. Get a collie x pup and bring it on the same way you would a gun dog from day one and you will learn together.

     

    Success is not a destination, but the quality of the journey

     

    fair enough thats your opinion, but I can honestly say with the lack of experience I had when starting out I would not have been able to bring up a pup as well as I have done after owning that first collie x i have.

  23. Rescue Dogs

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    if you are new to the game and looking for a dog to learn with I would recommend a dog that has had a few seasons under its belt that know what its doing. my first dog was a whippet collie grey and was about 5/6 years old when I got him and he has taught me most of what i know now.
    Rescuing a dog seems like a good thing to do but its a big risk to take if you want to work the dog because if its a lurcher type dog in the rescue center in the first place there might be a reason why its there to start with. (jacked with previous owner)
    Thats just my opinion but good luck in whatever you decide to do.

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