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4 minutes ago, chartpolski said:

A cross between a hare and a roe, only found in wildest Northumberland !

Cheers.

Ok you had me there charts … b#@£&#d … I’m going to bed to sulk … why did it have to be me to comment lol … 

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My old grandad was a taxidermist, so growing up as a kid was wonderful.  He had a pet fox , pet pheasant and we helped a injured kestrel get released again which as a 13 year old led me to an interest

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1 minute ago, Franks dad said:

Ok you had me there charts … b#@£&#d … I’m going to bed to sulk … why did it have to be me to comment lol … 

I was expecting someone else to tell me his dogs have killed 1,000’s ! LOL !

Cheers.

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Just now, chartpolski said:

I was expecting someone else to tell me his dogs have killed 1,000’s ! LOL !

Cheers.

I wish he had then I wouldn’t look like a twat lol … I did nearly Google it first as I’ve heard of most mammals, bit of a wildlife geek … wish I had lol 

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I wish he had then I wouldn’t look like a twat lol … I did nearly Google it first as I’ve heard of most mammals, bit of a wildlife geek … wish I had lol 

There’s lots of the heads about, especially in America where they say it’s a cross between a Jack rabbit and an antelope.

Id love one for the man cave.

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4 hours ago, dai dogs said:

Not sure if it’s still there in Cardiff Museum a Tasmanian Tiger on a School trip it impressed me so much I started breeding bull crosses Lol 

You see the leatherback turtle there, mate?

Absolutely huge, 916kg.

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11 minutes ago, shaaark said:

You see the leatherback turtle there, mate?

Absolutely huge, 916kg.

I can only remember the Tazmalian it was about 55 years ago lol but only seems like last year 

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18 minutes ago, dai dogs said:

I can only remember the Tazmalian it was about 55 years ago lol but only seems like last year 

Ah right. First time I went was about 50 years ago lol.

Last time I went was about 20ish years ago, and it was there then.

Just had a quick look, it was found on a beach in Harlech 1988.

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My old grandad was a taxidermist, so growing up as a kid was wonderful.  He had a pet fox , pet pheasant and we helped a injured kestrel get released again which as a 13 year old led me to an interest in falconry. I think I may have put these story's up before. When the moors murders was active, one of the kids was my my either off the estate or some connection. Anyway the bin men found bones in my grandads dustbin and the police came round and took him in for a interview. The bones were actually off some non domestic cat and obviously he got released and cleared. Another time my grandad was friendly with a zoo keeper who gifted my grandad a dead crocodile carcass.  The croc had lived at the zoo for years and was called Gariel and was an Indian crocodile and When mounted donated it to the city museum.  When I got into the lurchers had all my first hare roe fox ect all mounted . Have great memories of growing up there down the work shop at bottom of the garden and out in the woods foraging for logs and moss for placks and learning about wildlife.

 

 

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My old grandad was a taxidermist, so growing up as a kid was wonderful.  He had a pet fox , pet pheasant and we helped a injured kestrel get released again which as a 13 year old led me to an interest in falconry. I think I may have put these story's up before. When the moors murders was active, one of the kids was my my either off the estate or some connection. Anyway the bin men found bones in my grandads dustbin and the police came round and took him in for a interview. The bones were actually off some non domestic cat and obviously he got released and cleared. Another time my grandad was friendly with a zoo keeper who gifted my grandad a dead crocodile carcass.  The croc had lived at the zoo for years and was called Gariel and was an Indian crocodile. When I got into the lurchers had all my first hare roe fox ect all mounted . Have great memories of growing up there down the work shop at bottom of the garden and out in the woods foraging for logs and moss for placks and learning about wildlife.

 

 

 

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Grandad lived on a tough inner city council estate , everybody knew him. All the local dog lads , shooters on the big estates. Anybody into coursing will know thease names, Willy Tough was a regular customer and also did a bit for John Lennon . Grandad ad 5 kids , 4 sons and my mam. Had 8 grandkids and out of the whole lot only me had an interest in nature and field sports right from a young age . He used mad at me for shooting starlings in the garden with his airguns lol. Have some great memories there. 

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