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  1. Bobtheferret
    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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    I have found sometimes that rabbits that have bolted and gone back suddenly disappear! Despite putting in fresh ferrets and trying other holes etc and have got pretty frustrated with it but it doesn’t happen often and I put it down to the rabbit going very deep to hide or maybe even digging itself in where it goes down a tunnel and then piles earth behind it so the ferret can't get to it, I have dug down to a ferret basically digging at earth which seemed quite loose and turned out there was a rabbit behind it! No idea how often it happens as generally you wouldn’t know but I am sure they do i
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    I would be getting the locator out quicker personally, especially working hobs. It’s surprising how quick they kill a rabbit and how little blood they have on them when they’ve killed with a sharp bite to the back of the neck. One hob I own would’ve killed and moved on in 20 minutes no problem, I had to give him a few months off when he was younger as he had got to sharp and killed so quickly then just moved on. An impressive animal but not really what I wanted! He is a bit older and not so quick now and bolts a lot more. Sounds like your ferrets are doing just fine though, don’t overthink it
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    Top day out that by the looks of it, always good to see the young stock working well.
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    Not wrong at all, the good thing about a forum like this is getting lots of people’s experiences and views. I agree that dogs do often mature naturally and just become calmer with age. Just like people tbh, think how many of us were complete dickheads as youngsters but end up being decent adults!
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    Thanks mate, he is food oriented so hopefully that will help.
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    That has been a lot of the issue! Some real neurotic people making the situation worse with how they react, however if he didn’t run over in the first place....going to work hard strengthening the recall and stopping him even going near other dogs in the first place.
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    Thanks for all the replies, I really appreciate everyone taking time out to give your opinion. I think I have created the problem to an extent as he was such a friendly puppy I was to slack with allowing him to run over to other dogs and people rather than stopping it as it is still not good behaviour. I am in the process of trying to train him that he doesn’t go over to any other dogs or people but I fear it may take a while, he is food oriented though and today as soon as he realised some bacon scraps where on offer he was back as soon as called sitting waiting for his treat! He is a long wa
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    My old whippet/bedlington was the same with collies. One had a pop for no reason when he was a puppy and he never forgave the entire breed as long as he lived!
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    Thanks for the responses lads. I am trying to stop him running over as don't want him or anyone’s else’s dogs getting hurt he seems obsessed though as the minute another dog comes into view he is off...at his age he needs to run and be walked off the lead though and he is so bloody quick he is there in seconds or someone comes round the corner etc. It’s never been an issue until recently though. Not really sure why the change in behaviour? He hasn’t been challenging my older male lurcher at home at all, he knows he is the boss. Hopefully he grows out of it.
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