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  1. beast
    http://www.lutontoday.co.uk/news/local/looking-back-on-wolf-drama-as-zoo-says-it-s-secure-1-5712582 not sure its entirely accurate (got your dads name wrong for a start!) but i'm sure the paper would do you a copy of this sandy if you contact them? i've been on google this morning, and apparently six wolves escaped from their pen at whipsnade in 1980 and although they didnt get out of the zoo they killed a lot of deer within the grounds. as far as i can make out they were all recaptured.
  2. beast
    personally, i dont think the pup will miss out too much over just a couple of weeks, it will still be learning and expanding its mind within the confines of your house and garden. particularly if you have dogs already, and visitors to the house. i like to take mine out in the car as early as possible to get them used to it, but i'm not too bothered if they are not out and about straight away and i've never experienced any socialisation problems. good luck with the pup.
  3. beast
    i dont think any dog is smart enough to eat its dung in order to hide it, i agree that a lot of artificial flavourings etc dont break down in the dogs gut and are therefore still attractive after being passed. i do think though that with most dung eaters its a behavioural issue rather than being flavour related(!) and you need to look closely at whether the pup is being stimulated enough mentally, including the time when you are not there ( a pup which has had a lot of running around and is then given a good big meaty bone to chew in its cage is much less likely to suffer mental issues and is
  4. beast
    bump.....................
  5. beast
    http://spitalfieldslife.com/2011/04/17/brick-lane-market-7/ http://spitalfieldslife.com/2010/04/27/dog-days-at-club-row-market/ just found these, not quite the time period when i used to go there, but you get the idea!!
  6. beast
    Sounds like you mixed with the wrong bunch of east end boys .I was amazed after meeting some of them in the late 70s from bethnalgreen and white chapel how clued up they were on hunting.dogs and suchlike. we used to get the 7 bus up to petticoat lane on a sunday morning, me and my big brother, and there was a side street called club row, just full of stalls elling live animals. ferrets, gamefowl, rabbits, pups, cats, goats, you name it, it was there. and all from the backyards and gardens and housing estates of the east end. over the years i saw lynx cubs, raccoons, foxes, owls, littl
  7. beast
    http://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_trksid=p2050601.m570.l1313.TR0.TRC0.H1.Xsheepskin&_nkw=sheepskin+rug&_sacat=0&_from=R40
  8. beast
    animals such as wolves, when kept in captivity or even more so bred in captivity, very easily learn that men are not dangerous. not only do they possess the intelligence to learn this, but also their predatory instincts are still very strong. add to this the fact that an escapee might be hungry/stressed/defensive/some other exacerbating factor, and you potentially have an extremely dangerous animal on your hands. i certainly wouldnt want to take a gamble that such an animal was likely to avoid contact with man, and if i knew there was an escaped wolf somewhere near my family i would shoot it w
  9. beast
    was on the way home after a days ferreting with about 30 rabbits in the back of the truck. stopped at a little shop, and when i vame out there was a woman staring in the back. she asked me why they were in there, not aggressively just dumbly, and when i told her i had just hunted them, she said "why do that, you can buy them at the butchers!!!!" i said to her "how do you think they get there?" but she wandered off
  10. beast
    i've had the same brush for 15 years. only had 8 new heads and four new handles..................................
  11. beast
    if you teach him to use papers then you are still teaching him its ok to mess in the house. in my opinion the reallesson is still to come, as when you stop using the papers he still wont know to wait until he is outside but instead will mess where the papers are normally put down. as casso says, keep the pup in a crate and every time you let him out, straight in the garden then wait till he messes. whenever you are not with him, put him in the crate. whenever you are with him, you must watch every second for the signs that he wants to go (head down sniffing about getting more and more frantic)
  12. beast
    http://www.southwales-eveningpost.co.uk/Dyfed-Powys-Police-investigate-death-baby/story-20650041-detail/story.html the article doesnt say much but...... read the comments at the bottom of the page, some of these people are fecking insane!!!!! some of them are virtually saying that the dog is as important as the baby!! FFS!!!!!
  13. beast
    any of you lot used to put pennies on the train tracks then pick them up after the train had gone by, all rolled out and wafer thin?
  14. beast
    good luck finding the dog, must be a real worry
  15. beast
    this dog has been placed now, thanks for the interest
  16. beast
    i like having the dogs in the house with me, spending time with them when they are relaxed not just when i let them out their run for exercise. BUT they come indoors after the kids are in bed. and when i am at work, they are out in the kennel again before the mrs and babes are up and around. dont get me wrong, the kids spend time with the dogs i think its an important part of their upbringing, i take them out for walks and all the rest together, but i do not leave them alone together, i ssupervise closely. as it happens are my dogs are very good with the kids, i make an effort to bring them up
  17. beast
    i grew up in inner london, and although dad worked long shifts, sometimes nights, grafting really hard down the docks, he always made time for us , and being a big family he used nearly all his spare time with us kids. building pigeon lofts or rabbit pens in the yard, making dens for us over the waste ground (old bomb sites, all built on now) making go-karts, cross bows etc for us. but the best thing he did, at least one or two sundays a month, we'd be up before first light and leave mum in bed for a rest, drive out into the north kent countryside for a walk around (well, whenever he could aff
  18. beast
    by a strange coincidence we were talking about dogs at work today, and one of the girls was saying how her neighbour is trying to rehome a malemute. i commented that i would never let one of them near my house, and several of them which i have come across have been aggressive, intractable, unpredicatable. i even knew one which shared its basket with a westie for 5 years, then one day turned round and not only killed it, but ate half of it too!!! at this point one of the other girls turned round and said 2oh your wrong, my mums malemute is great with my two year old, she climbs all over it!"
  19. beast
    2 year old black labrador available. fully trained, used by a gamekeeper for picking up but is hard mouthed so he wants rid ASAP this will be free to the RIGHT home. PM me and i will put you in touch with him
  20. beast
    agree with other posters, keep it clean and that should heal fine. just make sure it doesnt get red, weepy or inflamed as that might indicate infection, but wounds like that are normally no problem
  21. beast
    i would really recommend to anybody to buy both of those two omnibus books on amazon, you will have hours of absorbing reading and really get to know about a fascinating and unique man. i wasnt keen on the kenneth anderson man-eater book myself, thought he was a little bit self-congratulatory, and a little over dramatic. my favourite jim corbett story: years after corbett died, a film company was in kumaon making a picture about his life. apparently the lead actor looked very much like him. well, one day on set a very old man turned up wishing to see "carpet sahib" (they couldnt
  22. beast
    lovely memories youve brought back for me, thanks boys. so many stories, dont know where to start, like bringing a fox the dog killed home on the bus in a bag cos i was gonna stuff it, dog and fox between them stinking the bus out, and me being thrown off and had to walk the last 2 miles home or me and my mate in his first car going over some bit of metal on the A2 and cutting the fuel lines and being stranded with dogs and ferrets and not quite sure how to get back home to london (his dad bailed us out, towed us all the way home with a bedofrd van he borrowed)....... keep em coming la
  23. beast
    some dogs seem to almost instinctively know how to mark, almost from their first trip out as pups, others can even after years be a bit unreliable, but most dogs given fair opportunity will learn to indicate the presence of quarry. however ive seen individuals which just didnt have the patience or focus to hold a mark for very long, and if the ferret didnt flush in the first five minutes they would get bored and distracted. i think this is partly down to how they are entered, partly down to the dogs nature
  24. beast
    and spam came in a tin!!
  25. beast
    maybe 20 years ago a lotm of parrots were being stolen, and they were worth big money too. this has certainly dropped nowadays as people have got better at breeding them, so they are more cheaply and reaily available, although the rarer stuff like hyacinth macaws are still targeted i believe
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