Ossie
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my drinking is controlled. i'm just about to turn 24 ffs, i'm still allowed to get hammered every once in a while! part of being young (ah, the youth of today! ). big one coming up in a few weeks, my 24th birthday/moving away party. will be the first time i've been able to get hammered with my friends for the best part of a year (boy am i looking forward to it! ). its been almost 4 years since the bottle a day times, i've not had a "love of my life" die since then, so i've not felt the need to get munted on a daily basis. circumstances were pretty extreme, a lot of shit mounting up on me, th
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just read the post & the replies, so i'll have a crack at clearing this one up... (don't eat me for this! ) doesn't say anywhere that 3 dogs were to ground. russells found the fox, 2 dogs went in on that particular dig, and Bizz has a new young'n who is taken along to other digs. probably to observe & get used to the sights & smells. as i read it, the second, more experienced dog went in to give the inexperienced new one a hand & to make sure things didn't get messy. and the russells where there to find & mark charlie. please don't eat me. just clarifying, fr
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i like getting pissed with my mates. we've had some damn cracking nights together. i used to be a right pisshead, when i was about 18/19 (who isn't at that age?). i lived in Norwich at the time, i was out every night getting wrecked. good times. i've been drinking since i was 4 (the odd tot of homemade sloe gin), started going to pubs with my parents when i was 14. i could pass for 18 & never got ID'd. by the time i was 16 i could outdrink my dad when i moved back home from norwich, my drinking got out of hand, in a big way. bored rigid, no driving licence, no friends, and my brother ha
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we put Jack over a big brindle greyhound bitch, she produced 16 puppies , lost 2 (still, feeding 14 nearly bankrupted us! ). we kept back a dog & a bitch, put a collie x grey over the bitch. that's how the grandaughter is bred. she's 26", black with brindle front legs. she's getting on a bit now, but i know she's taken deer (with help from the other dogs) & hare, and gave dad a rather pleasant surprise a couple of weeks before she turned 8 - she was out for a bit of exercise on dads permission, vanished & returned with a hare! the sister of that bitch was bred back to the coll
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honestly i couldn't say. i was only little when we had him, we used to take him with us to coursing events, but dad never ran him there, and dad was always a bit of a solo hunter, if he took anyone out with him it was his best friend, never me! all i really have to go on is the steady stream of people through our garden at 3am, poking about our kennels trying to steal him ! that dog had quite a reputation by all accounts! dad was pissed as a b*ll*ck when he brought Jacko home, he was so drunk he didn't bother to check if he was a dog or a bitch (we only had bitches at the time ). dad
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and the blonde girl? that's me... red wellies, classy!
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popped over to mums today, dug out my scanner & borrowed some photos of Black Jack Davy, my first dog. 29 1/2" saluki x greyhound, me & dads pride & joy! got poisoned years ago and had to be pts. R.I.P. Jacko, much missed
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or set up a photobucket account, upload your pics to that, then click on the "insert link" button in the text edit bar, and use that to put them up.
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the fact the dog is being held by a kid probably makes him look bigger. put it next to a 6' bloke, it's gonna look small.
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yup, it's at the showground
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my dad has used his ferrets for ratting in the past, he breeds very small, thin, weasely type albino jills. basically you just need ones small enough to fit into the holes, and that aren't bothered about getting bit. rats can be nasty f*ckers when cornered, so you need tough little ferrets to get the better of them! he has a bit of a surplus at the moment, i don't know if he is actually serious about getting rid of any, but if you're interested i can ask. we're in norfolk.
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i know the problem mate, my boy has a beauty of a collar (well, it was til it got a bit scuffed from daily wear). mum bought it years ago cos she liked it so much, even though she didn't have a lurcher that it would fit on at the time. just like what you're after. used to get all my collars from stalls at small lurcher shows, there was a guy from North Lopham who made most of them, but he keeled over a few years ago. good luck, most of the ones i see at shows these days are badly made, with all studs & plates on them, bloody horrible. a couple of ebay links for you. might be worth messag
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oh god, where do i start? had just about everything... 2 tortoises (one nearly 70 now, and still going strong), hundreds of mice & gerbils, hamsters (russian dwarf, roborovski & golden), 2 hooded rats, giant african land snails, garden snails (was really bored one summer), stick insects, cats, goats, horses, budgies, cockatiels, canaries, pigeons (including a wood pigeon we hand reared, with the highly original name of Walter Pigeon), rabbits, guinea pigs, pheasants, chickens, geese, ducks, quail, veil-tail goldfish, sticklebacks, some odd little fish that me & bro got out of t
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"skit skit skit... go on! GO ON! GO! GO! BLOODY RABBIT YOU DOZY B*****D!!! RUN FOR F*CKS SAKE!!! GERRIT! GERRIT! GERRIT! oh, b*ll*cks. ah shit, where's the little f*cker gone now? here... here! HERE!!!!!" that's me... :whistle:
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i suppose the only real use for ferrets like that is if you live somewhere really cold. but then you've probably not got rabbits... and they seem to cope with the cold quite admirably. mine were outside in winter, one night it got down to -7. i was fully expecting 2 dead ferrets the next day, but they didn't seem phased one bit. put my hand on the side of their hutch in the night, the heat positively radiated off it.
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Ossie; That surely qualifies you as Criminally Insane. Have you any idea the nurtitional value of your bogeys? Why not just get your shit together and feed the damn thing on flesh and bones, like all the other clued up people round here? Bogeys, indeed! Just remember what I told ye earlier criminally insane? you know i am he gets flesh & bones, but there ain't much he won't eat, boogers included. his favourite pastime is ripping up snotty bits of kitchen roll :sick:
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a pub near my parents place used to do ferret racing every summer. i had an old albino hob called Norman, he was champ 2 years running. and a tenner prize money for every race? 4/5 races to win? nice bit of pocket money for a 13 year old he was the only ferret who didn't nod off in the pipes. he got used to flush out the ferrets that had!
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mine look like that in winter! half ferret, half wookie....
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that's a nice looking pup hope she does well for you, keep us posted!
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grew up with a beddy/whippet x grey called Moss, my mum's lurcher, cracking dog, still catching rabbits at 15. obviously she wasn't being worked at that age, but she was still keen as mustard, and you just couldn't stop her when we went for a walk on dad's permission. she was great with me & my brother when we were little. she looked like a large beddy x whippet, blue/grey rough coat. only real problems we had with her was that she'd spend hours licking the pipes in the house (copper deficiency) and towards the end she had a few strokes. but every time we mentioned the vets she was right a
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under the car seat, on a bit of kitchen roll, or let the dog eat em.
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i've not looked for it on there, but try ebay. you can get loads of foody stuff off there, i had some absolutely lethal hot chilli sauce of there a while back.
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i remember reading somewhere when the dangerous dogs act came in (i was little, and completely dog-obsessed at the time, saved all the cuttings from the papers) that at the time more people were bitten/attacked by labradors/golden retrievers than all the "dangerous" breeds put together. the whole andrex puppy thing, aww, the cute doggy, go to stroke them and "chomp!". any dog can be dangerous if it's not properly cared for & socialised. i always find it funny to see some chav-type getting dragged up the highstreet by some big, hard-looking dog. it doesn't make them look hard, just makes t
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i've been known to talk in my sleep a bit. and i've been told i kick in my sleep! i used to go out with a guy who talked in his sleep pretty much nightly - you could have a conversation with him & he'd not remember a word the next day. damn handy for getting stuff out of him!
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my brother started sleewalking when he was about 6. he watched dads dogs tear apart his favourite chicken, cried himself to sleep for a week, then started sleepwalking. he'd go into my parents room & try to climb out of the window, they ended up getting locks fitted to stop him getting out. he's 22 now, still has the occasional bout, last time he got really bad was when his best mate died in a car crash. it's been known for his friends to actually tie him to a bed to stop him wandering about in the night!