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" King Rat of 2007 " ~ Shall We Go For It?
Ossie replied to a topic in Snaring, Trapping & Pest Control
another idea on the measurement of the rats... if you measure the rat with it's nose at the beginning of the tape, it makes it easier to read, as you don't have to look along the tape from where the tail starts to where the arse is & do the maths. oh, and how about adding "longest tail" to the categories? just a thought! i think me & my bro will be down at his chicken farm with the terriers & a couple of air rifles pretty soon. bet there's some friggin huge rats there... i mean, the size of the chickens! if they're not slaughtered at 8 weeks they grow up the size of turkeys. s -
pikeys dumped a load of terrier pups in a town not far from me last week, poor little buggers are only about 4 months old, but too old to sell... my cousin's daughter works at the vets in the town, 2 pups were handed in to them & she's kept one. the other had been run over, it's being patched up. there's still 2 or 3 at large. got my name down for the next bitch they catch. dunno how anyone could just dump pups like that. evil if it wasn't so bloody foggy i'd be over there trying to catch the poor little sods... but it's a long drive in shit conditions...
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looks like they really enjoyed it! reminded me of a zombie film re-enacted with ferrets...
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1st february - clear blue sky, little hint of a breeze. wore a short-sleeved t-shirt when i walked the dog. all the hazel is covered in catkins. and i saw a red admiral butterfly.
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miniture jack russel terriers
Ossie replied to Border Terrier's topic in Earthdogs & Working Terriers
just stumbled across this topic.. my dad has always had short-legged, rought coated jack russells. not that small though! his worked, very useful things for ferreting & ratting. feisty as. my first terrier was a little thing called brambles, by god she was gutsy. if any of the lurchers (all 26 1/2" & bigger) came near me, she'd be hanging off their throats. everyone called her "the rat". ten or 15 years ago you'd see a lot of rough coated jr's about in norfolk. hardly ever see them now, everyone has the smooth coated, be they long or short legged. i knew a woman who always went on a -
i work through an agency, as a packer in a factory that prints the labels for bernard matthews, tulip... basically, if you buy a pack of bacon or ham from tesco, chances are i put the roll of labels in a box & sent them to the processors... i work 3-midnight, which is why most of my posts are between 1 & 4am. i used to work as a carer at a residential school for autistic kids with learning difficulties. fecking loved that job... but there were 3 staff members who, if they didn't like you, collectively had the power to get you fired. and they didn't like me... they got the head of care
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stingers at mine have finally died, after a bad frost last week. some of the ragwort (evil stuff) is still going strong. snowdrops have started coming up in my garden. theres's a pigeon building a nest in the tree next to my cottage (it won't be building anything after tomorrow, mind... ). had a big fat fly buzzing round my living room a week ago. damn thing kept flying into my monitor, then vanishing.. took 3 days to finally squash it. it's all gone bloody nuts!
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jeez, that looks just like a leggier version of my boy! my lurcher man was right when he said Gyp just looks like a proper old type saluki... i must eat my words about questioning his opinion on my boy's X!
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there you go. it's been posted before though.
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what about lesbians? bet half the blokes on here don't think that's perverted. as long as they can watch... :tongue4: i really wouldn't have minded being brought up by a gay couple. better that than being brought up by a man & a woman who have turned arguing into an art form. rather have been brought up by 2 men who loved each other & me, than 2 thoroughly critical people at each others throats half my childhood. i have gay friends who i don't think should have kids, and gay friends who would make amazing parents. and i would hope the adoption services could tell the differen
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yup, my dads boys tear the skin off the backs of each others' necks. if you don't mind that, keep em together. otherwise, best to separate them.
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i grew up with ferrets, my dad has always had working lurchers, terriers & ferrets. i love the ferrety smell! i've had hundreds of them in my short life, ferreted with my dad every weekend when i was little. i had my boys castrated to stop them tearing lumps out of each other in spring. that's the only reason. my dad's boys rip the skin clean off each others necks. the smell being reduced was just a side-effect. i keep a bottle of shampoo around for when i get strays, i've had them turn up in some pretty bad states (one had just come out of a ditch when i picked him up, jesus, what a ste
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bought as a saluki x grey. i think there's some collie in the mix too. looks very saluki, like a saluki skin over a collie x grey body. sturdy little thing. he gave me the runaround again this morning, belted off onto the field next door after a rabbit. buggered off right across to the other side of the field, when i caught up to him, he turned round, and trotted back home! i'm of the mind that i should just walk off & wait for him to come back, but the people at the cottage on the other side of the field have 3 pet geese, if he got hold of one there'd be hell to pay! plus i don't h
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i've got 2 jills, both given to me as strays. one nipped like hell when i first got her, but it was the whole "wardance" thing, she'd just bounce around & launch herself at my calves! the other was a stray i got from the girl who found her. she was fine when she was found, then promptly had babies & went nutty. the girl was spooked, and didn't want to handle her anymore. put the 2 jills together, and i've had nothing past the occasional nip when putting their food dish in (and it's the same thing every time, so it didn't take too long to figure out how to stop her!). when i had a bit
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i've got 6 ferrets, pets not workers. 2 of them were bought from working stock to be kept as pets. they lived perfectly happily in a couple of modified guinea pig cages in my caravan for nearly a year. they actually prefer being indoors. but smells are an issue, the ferrety odour being particularly pungent! the 2 boys i had indoors were castrated, so it wasnt so bad. don't know if you can still get it, but there used to be a ferret deodorising shampoo that i used on them, takes the smell right out. i feed dry food too, as this really cuts down the odour. for god's sake don't give them fish! :s
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cheers for the tips! i'll have to try to get the cornish Ad Trader, dunno if it's as popular there as here (ours is regularly half-inch thick), but it's always worth a look.
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"he's good with cats" i got told when i went to look at gyp... right before he snapped at the tabby he'd grown up with! i shoulda took more heed of the warning... "they escaped" my dad, about my pet rabbit & her ten littl'uns... he'd actually sold them at diss auction! "can't do a thing with him... vicious as hell... have yer hand off!" previous owner of a ferret i once had. Ruby was so dopey he would curl up on my lap & fall asleep, never bit me or showed any signs of aggression to anyone or anything! "eat your crusts, they'll make your hair curl" 23 years of eating bread crusts, s
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and my favourite saying just popped back into my head: "you can't polish a turd"
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i don't fancy learning to surf wrapped up like a yeti!
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the whole world's gone f***ing nuts i tell thee! cat & puppies
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not planning on doing much freeloading, i'll be working. no work = no money. i don't like them apples!
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hahaha, class! what's so wrong with clothes?
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my landlord is turfing me out of my place in may (jammy b*****d is marrying a brazilian millionairess, and moving over there with her... alright for some!!!). anyways, this leaves me in a bit of a pickle, i.e. homeless. so, i figured, by then i'll be 24, and i've not moved more than 20 miles from where i was born... time to get out of the county for a while! if i don't do it now, probably never will. so, here's my plan (and you can all tell me i'm mad if you like!). get a van, go to Cornwall. can't get much further away! end of may, through to late september/early october, i plan to head on
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bought him for looks mainly *bad Ossie!*, but it was one of them things, even if he turned out to be shit, it's always nice to have a dog that makes people go "wow!". i'd have been a prat not to buy him. turned out he's a pretty decent lamping dog. not big on retrieving, but he was 7 months when i got him, and had missed out on a lot of the training that i would expect a dog that age to have had. i don't work him as much as i'd like, it's mainly daylight running on a huge bunny-filled field next to where i live. i love lamping with him, but we were using a modified 1mil candle power torch, a
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not ellusive in the slightest, we're heaving with the damn things round here! i drive through 2 woods on the way to the pub, i saw 7 on my way back... little buggers get in my garden!!!