Greyman
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You have two choices one has already been suggested to you, which is to get yourself along to your local shoot and offer your services as a beater, you will meet other likeminded folk then get invited out for a bit of ratting and other pest control type jobs, or you can go in the complete opposite direction like me and just go were you want when you want and plead ignorance when it comes on top, it won't make you flavour of the month but you will be fit as feck from legging it and you get to know every gap in the hedge and cut through for miles around, if your planning on getting a gun licenc
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Drowned in alchahol then fried complete, if the French can do it to a goldfinch I,m sure a ring neck would make an absolute banquet, I had a squirrel last week that my dog retrieved live (silly boy) it was biting shit out of him, anyway it was in an orchard and had been dining mostly on apples which made the flavour much nicer than some I,ve tried, so maybe feed the ring neck on cheese and Parma ham for a while and it will be taste like a pizza,
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I did here of someone shooting one last year in the Forest of Dean it was in there chickens at night, it had a fight with the family Russell a few evenings earlier but they thought it was a fox until it returned for the hens and got shot
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Some kind of white noise comes from my bathroom everytime my son has a shower, if that counts
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There,s something we could both enjoy up a snow covered mountain, I know an old woman that runs a donkey sanctuary and I saw a massive tumour disappear after all medication failed, the woman applied a canabbis based compound to it every day for a period of time and it went from an angry orange size ball to a small scar in its fur,
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Funny a guy I know has just re homed a large leaburger(spelling) ? It's nine years old and comes from Bosnia it's been an army dog then a guard dog but now lives a lovely life on a farm, comes to the pub and sits by the fire and is generally a lovely well rounded animal, I can't stand the attitude let's kill them all incase one goes wrong, all the bollacks about living by kids etc give them a chance it's like convicting someone incase they commit a crime, there are still a few people about that actually have a good relationship and knowledge of there dogs and there are just as many div,s about
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Along with the arms industry the industry in medicine is worth billions globally, and the last thing they want or need is a naturally growing plant that can do more than there million pound medicines that,s why they won't research it's health benefits or make it available for trial or promote it, there are many cases of people getting over cancer by self medicating with cannabis I also no several people that have successfully treated animals including donkeys and dogs with it, even prolonging and improving the quality of life is much better than the devastation that chemotherapy and other me
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Done, if I never already had three I,d take them myself, they are used for there intelligence not because they will just indiscriminately attack children, they just need a quiet life with a grumpy old b*****d that walks a lot and is firm but fair, probably not ideal for a council flat and half a dozen sprogs, but that's just common sense
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Well they are in Scotland,Devon and Gloucestershire,that I know of so that's top middle and bottom of the country as to numbers not sure heard there were 6 let loose on the Cotswolds, and a few of the early ones in Scotland were shot by people that never wanted them back, the ones in Devon are pretty well established so possibly less than 50 over all, but as they are rodents that might be all they need to get started ??
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Strange stance, on a global level we are driving lots of things to extinction probably on a monthly basis, it does not have to be an alpha animal like rhino,s and tigers, insects and bugs are going at an alarming rate, if you want one to research take a look at the thylosene or Tasmanian tiger officially went extinct in about 1933 at the hands of mankind
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They put turkeys down on a shoot near me and when they fly it's like a terrodactile going through the woods and often takes a kick to get them airborne, not in the same league as a left and right on woodcock but pretty impressive if you can drop one with a catapult
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Wow I bet that's a sight to see, everyday,s a school day and my bustard knowledge has just doubled cheers
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The one my mate had visiting him was on his bird feeders most days last summer
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I think they are here to stay now, you can get a licence to shoot them but I can't see us getting rid of them, interestingly they recon the originals exscaped from the film set of African queen with Humphrey boggart
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I bet he,d look a bit like a chicken as well sat in a baking tray with no cloths on surrounded by roasters, you can see why it went extinct in the first place really can't you simular to the dodo, big, tasty and flightless not good traits for longevity
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I think the biggest problem for them is they are ground nesting and a few of the chicks have been nailed by fox/badgers so there probably going to take longer to get established unlike the ring necks which nest in holes and seem to be spreading like feck my mate had one on his bird feeders last summer in Gloucester
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I was having a mooch in Gloucestershire last year and came across a large fenced off area with more no entry, and keep out signs on the gate than seemed normal , so being a curious type I hopped over and had a look round never saw anything out of the ordinary, a few days later sat in watching telly and on the news they were at a secret location breeding some kind of stork for reintroduction, well the secret location was the field I had been looking in a few days earlier so the following week I went back and sat in the hedge as it got dark and sure enough a flock of storks came flying in to ro
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I remember taking my kids for a mooch when they were baby,s I was on the Somerset levels near gold corner pumping station and I saw a small flock of egrets in a field and remember telling my kids, it does not mean anything to you but take a good look at them as you will probably never see that again in England, roll forward 20 odd years and they are everywhere now,
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The old guy on mountain men, Tom does some fantastic stuf with them, he makes lovely knife sheath,s from the tail eat,s the meat and cures and makes stuff from the pelt a real skilled old boy, he also traps them himself and he,s 72
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Also got a photo of one a couple of years ago on the Cotswold water park, it was not shy and sat outside my mates bivvie for about 20 mins before wandering off surprising what's out there doing well right under our noses, just wondering if a terrier can go into one of those dams, back in the 70,80,s they were crying out for people to dig out those coypu,s on the Norfolk broads doubt it will happen again though we,ve gone all soft, another thing about beavers I heard they contaminate the water they live in with a bacteria I,ve heard Americans refer to it as beaver fever which makes me chuckl
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No they were not and yes there has, I never drove 90 miles to show Ken a picture that was on here you sponge
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I would,nt even try explaining to him, his pleasure comes from being a dick and not from contributing anything, he brought the other cat thread to an end by sucking the life out of it and he,s just trying to be consistent, the sponge
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still trying to make a point? .,the people that collar and track these cats in the states are also very helpful to us and our cause, which is why I mentioned p22 many of these cats are also fed in front of the cameras to make them come back time after time and p22 is a very cooperative cat , he is part of a programme with a lot of funding and people working full time on it as apposed to a handful of volunteers using there own time money and cameras, did your mum never tell you f you have nothing good to say it's better to say nothing ???
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I,ve had a led lenzer p6 for years not rechargeable but battery,s last for ages, it's also gun mountable and has a rat tail swith that can be put on in place of the normal switch and attached to your stock, I think the police in America use them really robust and throws a good variable beam I,ve even lamped a few rabbits with it and the dog on the local golf course at shortish ranges
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My missus used to feed them every night in the back garden same situation, but my collie X learned to hide in the garden after I went out for my bedtime puff, he would kip in the summer house and fly out everytime everytime a fox came over the fence and as fast as they learned about the free food they learned it was a trap and now they avoid the garden, very clever opportunist animal
