Torquemada
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Lived in Wales and Manchester growing up. Spent the next 30 years down south. My accent is all over the place.
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It's funny, people keep protesting that I'm wrong about what I wrote and yet in response they put up pictures of snaring rabbits!!! ?
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The ONLY beauty! ?
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So who do you use for broadband and phone?
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I have made a few videos of me shooting cage trapped Foxes, but only to show a couple of lads how to do it quickly and humanely. Not for general public viewing.
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Thanks. After the little bit of stormy weather on Saturday night my Sky box packed up, the dish had been dislodged in the wind. I phoned Sky and they said it was £75 plus a 10 day wait to get it fixed. I pay £100 per month and have been a customer for 16 years without changing. Not happy, a local satellite fella did if for £35 a couple of hours after I called him. I am going to cancel Sky now and get something else.
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TC does this box still work?
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I just give a total price based on the job, with a time limit, bearing in mind that most of the time there will be 2 or 3 moles maximum per garden. Commercial customers pay through the nose.
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I should just add that a few of you seem to be suggesting that I have said that snaring isn't effective. I didn't say that, I just said there are better tools available for rats and squirrels. And there are, and the reasons they are better are the reasons I gave above. If you have lots of time to fanny around with snares then carry on camping, I do pest control for a living and don't have the time or the inclination to even attempt to snare a rat or a squirrel, I can just imagine a customers face seeing me whip out wire and poles . And whether I have snared 5 or 50,000 rabbits is com
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Why traps are superior to snares: 1) Easy to set - no special skills 2) Versatile - can be put in small spaces or difficult to see areas so you don't need poles and wires sticking up everywhere 3) Discreet - traps can be hidden and obviously there are no dead bodies hanging on view for the antis to see 4) Humane - kills target outright rather than by slow strangulation 5) Quick - you can set in seconds with no fiddling around 6) Reusable - remove target and reset for the next one in seconds 7) Cage traps- you can release non targets unharmed They are facts. Carry on. ?
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Yes you can.
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You are having a laugh aren't you?? I may not use snares very much, but that looks very much like rabbits, rather than rats or squirrels!!! So trying to demonstrate how they are better by pictures of that?? I will stand by what I said, foxes and rabbits are fair enough for snaring. The other species are easier and better controlled by traps. Edited to add: I have snared rabbits very sucessfully meself thanks very much!
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.. why carry a lot of traps about when a handful of snares will do the job just as well.? Nonsense. Traps are far superior to snares, you can set them in more situations and a damn sight easier.
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Is it easy to let them go? I wouldn't like to put my hands anywhere near that thing!
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What is the point in letting them go? Are they a pest or are you doing it just for fun?
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I can never understand why people would want to snare rats or mice or squirrel. Foxes and rabbits yes, but there are much better tools to catch the other three species.
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^^^^^^ This forum makes me lol. Edited to add. DogFox123 has 3,633 posts - all but 17 of them are on deleted threads about the Hardest Place in Britain. LOL.
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Those possum things look like giant rats. Do you shoot them once caught like that?
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Mine would be along the lines of, You can't grow old and wise without first being young and stupid. I've done the latter, still waiting for the former.
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That's Tooting Broadway. Job done.
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Someone local to me is hanging foxes (3 so far) on a gibbet next to a public footpath. I haven't seen them myself but have seen the pictures, no obvious signs of being shot. There are some crazy people about.
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I had a look and they only have a pest control general category, so you would have to be lumped in with everyone else.
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Putange are good. Trapline, you might as well throw them at mole hills! I am sure some have got some success with them, personally not a chance.
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I agree, we probably don't see the good bits, but I don't think my local outfit even own a rat trap, its poison every time, even when not appropriate. And they charge £15 for rats lol - not subsidised?? The last time they published their figures they made a £70,000 annual loss on the pest control service they provided
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He's living in a dream world ???
