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  1. Bobtheferret
    Nice looking hob, hope your daughter does well at the show with him. I have a very similar coloured jill coming to me in a couple of weeks.
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    It’s a vile horrible disease but unfortunately it’s here to stay now, just have to hope that areas it hits aren’t to badly affected. Not last season but season before it savaged some of my best perms as badly as I’ve seen for many years only blessing was last year very few with mixi as I think the survivors were immune. I would guess that’s why mixi goes in cycles every 5 or so years, population builds up mixi hits then survivors immune population then expands immunity levels dip mixi strikes again. Wouldn’t be so bad but with RVHD as well it’s tough being a rabbit atm.
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    Not that I was alive then but from what I have read/been told mixi is nothing like it was back in 1953 when 99.9% were wiped out with piles of dead littering the countryside. Compared to that it is no where near as bad. Regards killing or putting back, I have caught them that have clearly recovered from mixi and I will release them but if they have still got it then I put them out there misery. Numbers looking up near me after some lean seasons but the whippet caught a milky doe with mixi Saturday absolutely covered in fleas...just praying it’s not a sign of things to come. Atb.
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    Campsites can be gold mines for rabbits, got a great permission on a campsite but have to be careful when I go as campers don’t always approve!
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    Haven’t even bothered reading all this but another thread down the toilet thanks to the top thread ruiner himself....?.
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    Always amazed this cross isn’t more popular. Reckon you would find homes for any spares in no time. Cross I’ve always fancied owning at some point in the future but genuine ones from the right lab are like rocking horse shit.
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    I lost one and she just appeared back at the hutch a couple of days later. Also twice caught them in catch a live traps after losing them whilst out ferreting. Keeper once found a jill a full 3 weeks after I lost her so don’t give up hope.
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    I employ people on a self employed basis and legally I have to take 20% at source. You need to register for a utr then for CIS and get your employer to deduct the tax then do an end of year tax return. Get a accountant and possibly a book keeper and you should hopefully get a rebate with any luck unless your earning big bucks.
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    Nice offer, but it’s the wrong time of year really for ferreting. If the holes are open and obvious someone may fancy it but really it’s a job for after the cricket season. If it’s possible and safe may be better to shoot them with an air rifle then ferret them in the autumn. Good luck I am sure someone will come forward to help. I would but I am not close enough.
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    Agreed, I have breed hundreds of ferrets and have had one kit with something similar and that’s a kit not a year old adult. You owe it to your animals to take them to vets if there’s a problem not self diagnosing and asking on the internet. Not trying to be harsh but good animals deserve proper care.
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    I think with mixi it goes in cycles, population rises rabbits get it survivors have an immunity and pass it on which protects new generation and causes population to rise then immunity weakens/virus mutates and mixi strikes again and so on. I had it very bad round me not this season just gone but season before and last season saw one mixi rabbit all year only but had devastated them the year previous. I reckon in another season or two it will strike again unfortunately.
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    Great find mate, I am envious though! Sounds absolutely perfect.
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    Keep posting Greyman! Personally I am undecided as to if they are out there or not but I find this a very interesting thread and enjoy reading about your search to find an elusive big cat. I completely understand people’s scepticism but can’t understand why some feel the need to belittle you and undermine you, this is one of the few threads on here worth reading.
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    Fair play to the dog not many dogs (including hunting dogs) would be able to catch enough rabbits to survive for a year in the wild. It’s very different catching a rabbit on the lamp or that’s been bolted by a ferret to catching them completely unaided by an owner. He looks well in the pictures so must have been catching well.
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    Google it the video is still online. Absolute class they put the tractor forks straight through the side of the fly tippers transit.
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    You worried they will gang rape him??!! ?. He’ll be fine mate, I’ve had a vas hob in with 7 jills before he just worked his way through them like a footballer in a nightclub ?. Don’t worry about him he’ll have the summer of his life lucky b*****d.
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    Be nothing left soon, won’t even be able to kill a rat soon if these c**ts have there way
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    Thanks lads, I have just purchased a ready to go bottle with hose etc as as said above not worth the risk. Unfortunately it comes empty so will need to get it filled now.
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    I have been given an oxygen tank by my old man (he is a jeweller used to use it for soldering etc) does anyone know what I would need to do to get it up and running so I can use it to change my Air Arms S410 .177? Thanks in advance for any help.
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    Mines just come up to 2 and it’s only now I am having the odd issue, it’s mainly caused by other dogs but before he wouldn’t react to another dog being aggressive but now he is.
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    Had something similar happen to me yesterday. Mrs took our whippet to the beach with her, he has been a little bit funny with other dogs and was trying to get him around dogs whilst on the lead, whilst sitting on the beach with her friends a terrier runs over to her barking it’s head off she calls to owner to get it on a lead they didn’t seem bothered ?. Ours is trying to ignore this dog but then it launches itself at him and gets hold of his leg so he picked up and in the mrs words “ shock it like a rabbit” she literally had to prise his jaws open to get him to drop it. He is only a whippet
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    The Worcesters have a really small piece of pipework that connects the expansion vessel to the boiler and it can get blocked or expansion vessel might be knackered not sure how it’s a 2 man job....although I hate carrying my own tools!!!!
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    As a gas safe registered engineer I can say the best thing anyone with a broken boiler can do is ring a gas safe registered engineer to come look at it! If you start fiddling with it and get a leak etc you could cause a lot of damage to sensitive electronics, and that’s just water not gas! The model of boiler in the picture also comes with a 7 year warranty so at still be under warranty from the manufacturer, worth checking.
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    I am sure I’ve read multiple articles that say that once turned feral cats can almost double in size which could very well account for a lot of the sightings and evidence. Not saying that there definitely isn’t a genuine big cat out there but think the above is more likely when you think about it. Interesting topic though for sure.
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    I had a similar thing happen, the ex mrs used to keep chickens and my big nasty hob got out one night when I didn’t close the enclosure properly 2.00am in the morning all hell is breaking out in the chicken run I thought Charlie must be in there but no it’s my hob he killed 2 and wounded another all clean neck bites. The bugger only killed her favourite that sat on her lap ??. Ruthless b*****d he was.
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