Greyman
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Last post mate for now, I feel a degeneration coming on but I was not saying I had a perfect picture, I was saying if I put up a perfect picture with no other evidence you would not believe it was genuine,
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You might not be able to class it as proof but when you know the MO of an animal you can usually work out if it's responsible or not, eg if I found a carp on the bank of a lake with teeth marks round its mouth and a fresh fillet of meat missing from its side I would assume it's been nailed by an otter if I find loads of chewed husks under a chestnut tree I would assume that a squirrel was in the tree, if I come out and my windscreen is caked in bird shit I will assume the wood pigeon is roosting above me and so on, so when I find a dead animal that has been killed by a single bite to the head
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When I was at the uni last month one of the vet students told me her dad is the vet that checks out things before the licence is issued and there has been a big rise in applications for servals, they also come in black I have a picture somewhere of one in the sand dunes at burn ham on see
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I have actually seen two with my own eyes,both black leopards one a male and one a female judging by the size difference, I have had two very close trustworthy friends that have encountered Lynx in the wild one last year and one 30 year ago, I have footprints that can not come from any other animal, as did the guy in the video but no one picked up on that, to get to 100percent takes lots of smaller percentages, I could show you a perfect pic of a leopard and you would just say not in England, so to prove its in England I have to fill in all the gaps ,my case has to be 110 percent and I will st
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I think the first hurdle is to accept they are here and that's a really hard one, but my goal is to learn and understand there behaviours what weather conditions push them in certain directions, what they eat at certain times of the year what geographical locations are attractive to them and so on, once you have unlocked all these puzles(and remember it's a non native animal in strange surroundings so won't always behave like its African or American ancestors) once you get to the point were you understand all the above it should be a simple case of thinking all the conditions are now perfect a
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Sadly I don't have enough time to chase all the mystery animals, but since 2015 when I started looking and collecting things I have had two people claim to have seen wolves in the wild in the uk one of them was a serving policeman both in completely different parts of the country, have also had a Bigfoot sighting reported to me ?? But I,ll leave all that to someone else to pursue its hard enough looking for non excistant felines while trying to earn a living not piss off my wife and stay sane at the same time
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I,ve had a really good look mate, but alas have,nt found any, it,s not on my normal ground I only found it because I noticed a load of crows and magpies on it when I was driving along a country lane, it's on private land and I,m in full veiw so I have to be a bit carefull, I,ve got the go ahead from a girl that keeps a horse a few fields away to leave my van in her yard so I can sneak in and have a good look around, I,m hoping for a foot of snow when I wake up as I have a day off tomorrow which will be spent in the wood behind the carcass so maybe a few more clues tomorrow
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It's early days but I would say the badger shows all the signs I would expect from a cat kill IE stomach bag left in tact skin peeled back plus as I said signs on the ground were I found it like a large area of flattened grass were the cat lay down and done iits business and a large drag mark were its been pulled away from the woods, the fox on the other hand looks more scavenged by General scavengers than killed and eaten in one sitting by one animal and the footprints look more dog like than cat so at first impressions the badger has everything I would look for in a cat kill the fox not so
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Cheers, some of the group actually go over and spend three months with the mounting lion group in America they have some kind of conference every few years, I am to near towns and motorways to run hounds unfortunately but I have thought of training a scat dog which they also use a lot, interesting little point raised regarding the burying of prey, it does happen over here but is much rarer as is leopards taking there prey up trees and the general consensus from both sides of the Atlantic is its a lack of competition in England means they don't need to hide there food, the puma has bears to con
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True Are you asking about the fox or the badger?
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By using the cross technique I have to agree with you about the print being canine but regarding the badger I,ve only showed you two pics there are many other things to look at when you find a carcass the marks in the grass and other things tell a story of what happened this badger was killed as he left his sett and dragged into a field before being consumed, I, am actually considered quite good at what I do really, any ways a flat battery and a hot bath beacons
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Will show you the hole later, but no exit wound and no bullet inside, cats eat organs not stomach it gets moved to one side, then eaten by fox,s and badgers
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Cats also have nails that they keep retracted unless walking in mud or snow, so don't write them off for the claws, the three lobes on the back pad are far more confirmation than claws, another simple test I do when I,m out is to make a cross on the pad inside the outer toes if the cross does not touch the rear pad its canine if you can't make a cross without going over the rear pad probably a cat, simple, also the badger being killed by other badgers would carry some weight due to the time of year etc but not with a single bite right down through its skull it should have signs on its face, th
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Your finger is right in the way on the second photo if it has three lobes on the rear pad its feline if it's more like an upside down heart shape with two lobes canine
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That's a good fresh one, do you have any idea what happened to it, is its stomach nearby, looks like it met a simular end to my badger, it's normally from September onwards that I find them, as it coincides with the culprit moving from open land into cover for winter and as with any big preditor removing the lesser preditors first both fills your belly and makes for an easy winter thanks for sharing cheers
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The first pic is literally just skin he has been turned inside out the second pic is hanging out the skin, I did have to move it around and twist it about a bit, the 80s furry boots are were its been rolled down his leg, pretty cool find and my first of the winter
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Went back today and had a bit of a look round found a couple of maybe,s but the grass in the field is quite long and still pretty lush, there is a private wood next to the body were its been dragged from and it has about a foot of leaf litter on the floor as no one goes in there you can see were things have moved through but no good prints I,m afraid
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First clue for the fox fans, when a fox or even a badger chews ribs from a carcass the ends look like a paint brush as they chew it and not cut it, second clue fox,badger and rat will eat the stomach not leave it unburst hanging from the spine picture two coming up, black bag is the stomach also notice how the skin has been rolled down the legs and the missing ribs cut clean off tight to the spine with no frizzy stumps, the badger also had no facial damage that would indicate a fight with either a dog or another badger it has a single bite mark through the top of its head and it was then licke
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I don't think he,s the first I,m sure I heard a simular story some years ago, but FairPlay to him and his mates for seeing it through
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Right I think I can now finally add a picture, so it's been a while and my gallery just keeps on growing, as we all know there is know such thing as big cats living wild in England so I was wondering if anyone could explain this one, I found it fresh yesterday morning no rigamortis had set in and it's stomach was still in tact, it's totally been skinned out, I found a deer around 50 yards away at exactly the same time last year in very simular condition , so the question I need answering is this, what kind of British mamal can catch a full grown badger , kill it, gut it and eat it all during t
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Am by know means an expert but when I asked what this wood was I was told black poplar and it does look simular to yours hope it helps
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Never had you down as an avid co op fan, go co op
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Forget a gun until you have land to take it on as you will be tempted to do naughty things, when you buy your ferret get a dozen purse nets to go with it these are placed over the hole and close round the rabbit as it exits, you may want a small whippetie type lurcher next to nail anything that avoids the nets and so your armoury will grow, next get a decent lamp and get your whippet on the lamp, long nets can be a good way of gathering game if you have no dogs or guns ( or permission) you should also learn how the weather affects your quarry and you as the biggest load of bollacks ever writte
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f**k knows I,m still using slate and if I get a PM it comes tied to a pigeon
