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never heard that one before! my old rescue jill is spayed, my vets have never mentioned distemper jabs to me. none of mine have ever been jabbed with anything other than antibiotics...
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yup, i do that too, on all my critters, the rare occasions they get ticks. works a treat!
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i will always count my blessings that i'm not a female ferret... however, one of my male friends wants to be reincarnated as a hob, and live with me... he thinks it looks like a pretty fun life! spoilt rotten, get to run around rabbit burrows, and all the lady ferrets he could wish for!
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i got one of my girls like that last summer, little sandy mitt, very nice looking ferret. hoping to breed from her this year. the practice were going to get the rspca to pick her up, but they phoned my vets first to see if anyone had lost one, they know i've got loads, so i got a call... my vets thought she might have been one of mine, even though she was found 7 miles from my house! i picked her up, on the condition she'd go back when her owners turned up.... that was 10 months ago, and i've still got her ended up collecting another stray a month later, from a girl who found her & ha
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Lets hope your dad never sees what lepto or parvo can do to a dog we've only had one go down with lepto, Fern, my 3 year old saluki/grey x beddy/whippet/grey, she'd had her jabs and still got it . bloody rats pissing in the dogs water bowls . but that was about 15 years ago, since then mum has got a pretty impressive collection of cats, and *touch wood* they haven't seen more than a rat tail outside the backdoor for nearly ten years. getting rid of the chickens helped too! he doesn't take the dogs out with other peoples dogs either, he's not shown a dog since i lost my original J
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i am calm. practically horizontal, me! :drag: he was just making wild assumptions about me based on a couple of lines i wrote, and with absolutely no grounding in my post, and that's not on. i wasn't the one hoping to go lamping on a windy night, i didn't need the help, or the defamation of character. i was just saying i coulda kicked a rabbit into the middle of next week in broad daylight a couple of days ago! if it's windy enough, and you're downwind of a rabbit, they just see this thing walking towards them, they don't get the whole package, smell & all, and more than likely they'll
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good lord, is anyone actually reading the first post, or any of the topic properly? brookie was replying to me as if i made the first post. i didn't. and i'm not saying i know it all. ALL i was saying is that i walked up to a rabbit with a gale blowing in my face at half past 1 in the afternoon, and could have trod on the daft thing before it moved! i'm not the one who needed the "educating" as you put it, Roxy made the original post, i didn't require i blasting from someone who can't tell the difference between "ROXY" and "Ossie". Brookie wasn't trying to educate me. brookie was tr
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my dad doesn't vaccinate his dogs. his 2 youngest lurchers never even had their puppy jabs. neither did any of his terriers. my brothers 18 year old JR cross had his puppy jabs, as did the old collie x grey, but never had boosters. but they never see other dogs, and my dad is a notorious tightwad (really, sweats when parting with large amounts of money!), & just couldn't see the point in jabbing all of them. my boy gets his boosters, because there was a really bad outbreak of parvo in norwich a few months ago, and i usually take him with me when i go there to visit friends. better safe th
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cos if the wind is blowing hard enough towards you, the rabbits don't know you're there. i walked to within 10 feet of one a couple of days ago, a gale blowing in my face. the rabbit couldn't smell me, and it didn't move til i practically trod on it. unfortunately my dog was on the other side of the field, behind the rabbits, and having one of his selectively deaf moments.... so hy was you lamping other rabbits when your dog was off the lead he was hunting and running about you are obviously new to the game and i was only trying to advise you you can have the best lamping dog in the w
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cos if the wind is blowing hard enough towards you, the rabbits don't know you're there. i walked to within 10 feet of one a couple of days ago, a gale blowing in my face. the rabbit couldn't smell me, and it didn't move til i practically trod on it. unfortunately my dog was on the other side of the field, behind the rabbits, and having one of his selectively deaf moments....
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i made the mistake of skinning some old roadkill deer heads the other day, without gloves on... i'd slung them in a bucket cos a mate wanted them for an art project, by the time i remembered they were there over a month later, they were pretty putrid (water in the bucket too) :sick: i scrubbed my hands with soap, then bleach, then bicarb, then ketchup... and my hands were shiney, with white bits, and smelt of soap, bleach, ketchup... and putrid rotten flesh. :sick: :sick: :sick: after 24 hours of the horrid smell, and not being able to smoke without feeling nauseous (just couldn't put my ha
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http://www.thehuntinglife.com/forums/index...showtopic=21188 we're working on a solution here!
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excellent! now we're getting somewhere! if countrymaids contacts can get the dog all the way there, that'd be brilliant. if not, we need to find someone to get the dog onto the ferry & across the sea. good work people! countrymaid, you have pm
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i'd chuck in a tenner.
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http://www.thehuntinglife.com/forums/index...showtopic=20909 right, i have been watching this topic for a few days now... there's a big black dog free to good home in Hampshire. there's a Ditch_Shitter in co. Leitrim who really wants him. so, come on people, i'm sure someone here can come up with a plan to unite dog & potential new owner. there's enough of us, surely there's got to be a way? i'm almost considering drving from norfolk to pick the dog up, and delivering it! it's a shame that there's a good home waiting for the dog, it's just several hundred miles away, across a sea, a
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it was my great aunts father who was responsible for the first lot of escapees, he had a fur farm at Mulbarton in norfolk, and had a few get out, started a wild population round that area. they've supposedly been eradicated from the broads, but i'm not sure... it's a fecking HUGE expanse of water & marshes, perfect coypu territory. some bits you can't even get too... i reckon there's still got to be a few about...
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pretty little things, but no good for clumsey people, their legs break really easily!
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" King Rat of 2007 " ~ Shall We Go For It?
Ossie replied to a topic in Snaring, Trapping & Pest Control
dammit, i'm still on the hunt. nearly had a good'un when i got in from work - it shot across the bottom of the track as i pulled in. unfortunately, a 12" long, 2' wide rat isn't a lot of good for this... -
thanks for the mesage gypsyboy, but unfortunately hertfordshire is a bit far to trek for a ferret...
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looking good from where i am. i can look through my french doors & see it! last time i saw a really good lunar eclipse i was only a littl'un, my grandad got me & my brother round, we sat in his kitchen and watched it. that one was only a partial eclipse, but it was really spectacular, because it happened early evening, so it was still relatively light. a good memory to get a pic you need to use a really long exposure!
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2 of mine have a 1.4 litre bunny bottle (says on the side it's suitable for puppies?!?!). i tried them with a bowl, but one would stick his head right under the water, and drink like that, then tip the bowl over. i got pissed off wth constantly (i mean almost hourly) having to refill it! my 2 girls have a smaller bottle, no problems with it, they'll empty it every 2 days, so i just top it up every night when i feed them. my other 2 have a hefty Mason & Cash bowl, and have never tried to tip it over. odd little things, aren't they?
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if i've got petrol money, and i'm not working, might take the mutt along for a bit of fun
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cheers for the link. nothing on there at the mo, i'll keep trying with the free ads!
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some will be ok. but a lot won't, and imho it's not worth the risk. my girls came in season last year, and showed no signs of coming out (one had already produced a litter, then came back into season when she was put in with the other in-season jill), so i mated them with my dad's ancient hob, he had a bit of fun, the girls didn't produce kits, and they came out of season very quickly after they'd been mated. i don't think spaying is the best answer to it, expensive and a lot of hassle. i prefer to mate mine. plus, i have one spayed jill from a rescue, and she had a bit of ovary left in her,
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Anyone ever outcross to wild polecat ?? (breeding)
Ossie replied to Ruger8's topic in Ferrets & Ferreting
i've never seen an actual, provable wild polecat cross, although there's always someone in a pub round here, claiming they've done it, or that they have a wild polecat... in norfolk?!?