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Squirrel wanted for ferret food
Neal replied to diggermad's topic in Snaring, Trapping & Pest Control
I learnt this the hard way too. Took me ages to clear the little buggers out of the court. -
Maybe that's why you're still getting attention if the dog is 22" and 34 lbs. People will probably think it's a lurcher. You want to get yourself one of those little MacArthur whippets that you can fit in your pocket.
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Although I wear some barefoot style shoes, I wear them for a slightly different reason. In my case it's two-fold. Initially it was because a physiotherapist recommended I swap to zero-drop shoes for my bad back. Basically, zero-drop means no drop in height from the back of the foot to the front i.e. not necessarily barefoot. However, my second reason is because I find the vast majority of shoes cramp my toes in and cause pain as a result of this. The vast majority of 'foot shaped footwear' just happens to also be barefoot. As a result I'm now in vivobarefoot shoes and boots almost al
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Move 'em indoors. It's cheaper.
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Just seen an advert for a litter on t'internet. I think they were in Barnsley. Poo! forget to note the price. Not exactly sure of exact breeding i.e. %s etc, but thought I'd mention it on here as there have been several threads recently asking about genuine collie crosses and kelpie crosses. NB for those of you who like the 'pretty' ones, I think most were merle. (Can't find the whistling/tongue in cheek icon)
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This has been my experience of them. All the ones I've met (pure, not lurchers) have been extremely driven and certainly a handful. One I know was from a litter in which all the others were used as protection dogs and his owner had to use a prong collar to stop him from attacking cars. But, having said that, it's amazing how much impact the greyhound can have on calming some crosses down. I was saying to someone earlier today that, although most people add sighthound blood to add, among other things, speed to the base blood, I personally think one of the main benefits is in creating a do
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That's reminded me of an incident with my very first kelpie. He was very much a one man dog in his youth. When I met my wife (who's also a teacher) she was doing some school work at the dining table and Rusty was standing up next to her with his front paws on her school work. She tried, unsuccessfully, to get him to move so she asked me to intervene. I told her she just needed to persevere as he needed to accept requests from both of us and that maybe she needed to be firmer at first. She tried asking him to get down as firmly as she could but, as far as he was concerned, she may a
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My kelpies can be a bit like that Jigsaw, though not as extreme. They're all obedient to every member of the household but, if I'm present, they look at me first before doing as they're told. It's as though they're checking that the request (lay down, in your box etc) are things I'm ok with before they comply. Noggin, the eldest, is seen as being my son's dog. They just gelled really well from a young age and he definitely prefers his company to mine...but he'll still follow my requests over my son's. He took him for a walk in the local wood once and I turned up later with the other
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I watched a programme on tv a few years back on the possibility that the various types of bigfoot could be real. They looked at the sasquatch in North America, Alma in Russia (?) and the Yeti. All the hair samples from North America turned out to be moose, black bear etc. The interesting one was a stuffed 'yeti' which, although it turned out to be a bear was from a close relative of the polar bear. I may be misremembering this but I think they said it was an ancestor of the polar bear, or one step removed or something similar.
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I wonder if maybe the parent bird (or other animal in other, similar cases) simply knows something that we don't. Maybe they know that there was something wrong with it and simply 'put it out of its misery.' Many years ago, when I was at art college in Falmouth, my landlady had two or three cats. She told me that she'd had a siamese once which was repeatedly attacked by her other cats. She kept it separate from the others but came home once to find it had all but destroyed her curtains. When she took it to the vet for their opinion she discovered that it was born both male and female. Th
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Vera will be onto it. It'll feature on the new season next January.
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I was visiting a zoo once about twelve years ago and a duck had decided to take her ducklings for a swim in a pond in the brown bear enclosure. I took several photos of the bears picking them off one at a time. Several people were saying how cruel it was and couldn't the zoo do anything about it but the keeper shrugged and said something along the lines of 'she won't go in there again will she.'
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That's the one he passes on his way from the south coast to Nottingham. Must have been a tad lost.
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They look far too narrow for my duck feet.
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By Hillmaster, do you mean the Berghaus ones (which used to be Brasher)? I used to wear their Supalite which was amazingly comfy and waterproof. The only thing I didn't like (at the time) was that they only lasted a year or two at most. I put a pair out in the garden as a planter after I'd finished with them but the waterproofing was so good that the plant kept getting waterlogged as no water could get out! Unfortunately, although people took the mick out of their original boots and described them as like ducks' feet, They fitted me perfectly, but when they changed manufacturers the
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The secret with lundhags is to make sure you put the grease on them more frequently than usual when you first start wearing them and to wear them with two pairs of socks. I did this with my first pair and then only wore them for shorter walks at first. They ended up like gloves inside. However, I have to admit I wasn't so lucky with my second pair. There must have been a fold somewhere in the leather when I tightened them up for lacing as, like you, I was in agony within a mile or so and I could only get by if I loosened them to the extreme. I ended up passing them on to someone on here.
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I always know when a bike is coming because, even though my dog is Australian, he's typically polite/English, and moves off to the side and lays down when he sees one approaching.
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I've got one which I found by accident. I was looking for footpaths in a particular area in Devon which I didn't have a paper OS map for and found this online: WWW.DEVONPERSPECTIVES.CO.UK Not sure if that's right as I hand typed it. Ooh...it's just changed into a link before my eyes. Magic! Although it's of Devon, I found you can zoom in and out and move to any area of England, Wales and Scotland. No Ireland though I'm afraid. Poo! The link doesn't seem to work.
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Sorry! Only just seen your question. Glad you found it.
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I wonder if shortstraw has seen them?
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I noticed a litter of cocker x whippets in Liverpool on the internet yesterday. Both parents are workers and pups raised on raw food. Sounds interesting. Don't know if the breeder is on here or not.
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With regards to the question of whether the sire or dam has most influence on the litter: I remember reading several times about people feeling that the dam has the most influence simply because of the fact that she's raised them. By this I mean (or rather they mean and I'm pinching their thoughts) genetically the pups are 50% of each, but the dam raises them for those first few formative weeks and her temperament will therefore affect theirs. Put simply, a nervy (or 'pissy' as my brother calls them) dam might be more likely to make her pups nervy if she's constantly jumping out of her skin at
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I see them every now and then on Preloved and Pets4homes and similar sites.
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I always have a bowl of water out in the garden room for if the dogs are thirsty, always from the tap. However, they rarely drink from it and invariably prefer to drink the rusty coloured rain water which collects in an old wooden planter full of decaying logs. Weird!
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The bloke who did that video is the same one who made the video which encouraged me to go for the vivobarefoot tracker forest esc. Comfiest boots I've ever had. Not worn them through the winter yet so it'll be interesting to see how they do. Not sure if I'm hoping they manage the bad weather or not as I miss my lundhags a bit.
