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I think ferrets are immune to weils disease? wash your hands after ratting to avoid it yourself Ferrets will occasionally get a few scratches,cuts and sometimes serious bites, however i still ferret rats when the opportunity arises, great sport and some places you cant smoke out or dig there are risks involved in anything worth doing, please remember when ferreting rats they only come accross rats.....................rabbiting, i have bolted cats,stoats,foxes and have heard of several other large and dangerous animals down rabbit holes, that give a worse bite than a rat!
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Thats the way forward Ollie, are they going to check you before hand?? as in could we all send you a few rabbits, you turn up with 200, thats a few hundred quid before you even set a net that was a joke good going, i have been paid a few times to clear a particular piece of ground etc...
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Sadly it seems that my season has fizzled out the song the animals came in 2 by 2 seems appropriate 2 rabbits yesterday and 2 today Do you all remember me posting this article? Well after i contacted the appropriate town council they invited me over to finish the job the others had messed up arrived there this morning and met the allotment site manager, an old italian bloke called vince, who also used to keep ferrets, apparently the previous rabbit catchers hadn't used ferrets, they had come up with a dog and a gun, walked round , shot 1 rabbit and then the moaning an
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Hope you dont mind i thought it that funny i copied it and sent it to everyone in my address book!
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Fila Brasileiro Or failing that a type rather than a breed, i.e. teh type of dog capable of guarding your house
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Contact Ebay, they have a complaints part who will advise accordingly,
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Nah i know its mine beacause he has a broken tooth and a scar on his neck so ill be up there later to have another look Luke. Very very very few ferrets are microchipped Glad he is recogniseable due to marks and scars, that would be enough to prove ownership even with the police if it came to that
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http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/New-Double-Bow-Back-...1QQcmdZViewItem ebay search and the ferretbox company have several on there i got a new box a couple of weeks ago from them...very reasonable below is mine
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in my experience they dont tend to travel far, its probably in someones nearby shed or garage or greenhouse. Posters around the area, ask the local kids, ask the postman, local shop and police station as well as the local rspca etc...in case they get it handed in. also anyone who keeps chickens,pigeons,rabbits etc...warn/ask them one of my ferrets escaped whilst being looked after a few years ago by an old boy in a neighbouring town, she was out 3 days and was found in someones greenhouse, they were feeding her cat food and petting her live capture traps (i would bait them w
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DS you have a way with words, last time i was in my local gunshop with the wife and my daughter i started looking at a pump action 20gauge, Wife said you dont have room in the cabinet for another gun......Colin who owns the shop replied, get another cabinet i then tried to persuade her that a 20gauge would be good to step my son upto when he has learnt with the .410........then i could teach my daughter to shoot with the .410 (shes only 2) she refused and asked Colin if he had any pink realtree patterned guns for teh little princess so perhaps in time i will have a pink realtree patter
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i personally wouldn't wait that long, by the time he is all jabbed up he would be 3 months old,start him now! 6 weeks old and he shouldn't have much prey drive, remember show and introduce him to ferrets now, but keep re-inforcing the "dont touch ferrets" rule right upto him being 18months or so, you cant over do this part of training, and when he is jabbed and able to go out then introduce and break him to farm stock, sheep,horses,cattle etc.... a dog that goes for a ferret wouldn't be allowed in my house, the ferrets take priority and the dogs know this, a rabbiting dog that doesn't
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This isn't a subject for internet diagnosis. Only the local police will tell you straight. I feel important now i got that right 2 pages ago!
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Took this picture using a disposable camera that i ran to the shop to buy, neither the Sun or the Daily Star want to buy it, thought i would share it here instead Its the public toilets behind/underneath great portland street tube station in London, me and a mate were held at the lights when i saw her walk past, neither of us had a camera phone, i ran to the nearest shop and bought a disposable camera, the pic didn't come out bad, but i cant get any of the tabloids to buy it!!
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Rivers of Blood.........anyone been down south london during the night! He was right on quiet a few issues and sadly immigration has brought and caused a lot of problems.......its not a black and white issue....its a miss-match and hodge podge of cultural and moral values that is causing most of the problems and this is aggravated by th eliberal elite lefties that run this country at the moment! edited to add Romans.......they brought the first black people to these shores, the Roman legions were basically men from whatever country they took over , very few were small dark skinned Ital
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The lads in Ireland, not the UK! So the firearms act quoted is wrong. In the uk sentenced to 3 years or more and you are forever probihited from a firearm, 3months to 3 years and its a 5 year ban....Ireland.....i dont know, go ask the Garda!
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The law is quiet simple (although open to an element of interpretation) If you are convicted of an offence and sentenced to longer than 3 years custody (whatever you serve is irrelavant its what your sentenced to that counts) then you are prohibited from having a firearm for life, if you are sentenced to between 3 months and 3 years then your prohibited for 5 years starting on your day of release The police have to be sure you are a steady character, but again thats open to interpretaion. So unless you have been sentenced to a long stretch inside or are fresh out of prison for a shorte
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Heard of them apparently being in Glasgow?? They breed well and spread well, only a little time and they will be everywhere!
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Not a bad morning, i love longnets and stopnets, good to see that yours caught for you!
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I was always told and led to believe that the holes with large amounts of droppings in the entrance were not the main warrens but satellite/play warrens that the rabbits may use to hide in during the day and to breed, play etc... You may have better luck in any larger warrens that are in better cover? I wouldn't net all the holes either, i would use longnets/stop nets and criss cross the warren. tell the groundsman that you need to check at night to see where the rabbits are living, and then tell him that you will be able to ferret the largest populated warrens and do the best job
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last meal mine had (yesterday) included rabbit head, an egg and half an apple! today it will be chudleys dry
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I didn't understand the principles behind silver and bew ferrets until a year or so ago, apparently its like Merle coloured dogs and as Julia points out two silvers can produce young with all the problems she listed. Never bred for colour, always ability! saying that i like a few different colours to be able to tell them apart in the half light early in a morning!
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Just read this post...good bag. still reeling from size 17 feet
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wise words "Black-footed ferrets are one of North America's rarest mammals. In 1985, only 18 of these small mammals remained. For two decades, Zoo scientists have played a key role in boosting the ferret population through innovative artificial insemination techniques and by developing ways to ease reintroductions into the wild. Now, more than 800 ferrets live in the wild, and hundreds more live at breeding facilities, including at the Zoo's Conservation and Research Center. The Zoo exhibits a black-footed ferret at the Small Mammal House." Cut and pasted from the website with the
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I tend to only ferret a warren once a season, nets down, ferrets in and all resident rabbits caught, it then takes all the spring and summer for new rabbits to move in and breed and repopulate however i did used to have permission on couple of small paddocks at the side of the A1 embankment in Yorkshire, i would ferret the fields and take between 10-20 rabbits, leave it a month and new rabbits had moved up from the embankment and you could ferret them fields every 4-6 weeks and catch the same sort of numbers as tehy were replaced by new rabbits however unless you are getting them repla
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Looks like a good season had by the young lads