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Good pics: love the one of the Deer x running: her head is sharp and her legs are blurry: gives a real feeling of speed.
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Lovely lucky pups: looks like they're getting a good all round education: it's great having summer pups!
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Love it! I've always likened mine to dressage haut ecole when they do that: I'll have to try and record some myself.
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Oops! Sorreee! Comes of having too many Moleys LOL
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Heres' ours: 3 tier hutch at rear with bedroom on each level and pipe connecting the layers. Pipes fixed to walls too and thickly layered with straw: they like to sleep out in the summer. LOL
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Good on ya jigsaw for taking him on. His feet will probably never come up 100% tight, but they should do for what he wants to use them for. I've taken in dogs that had never seen the outside of a kennel at 11 months old, (lurchers), and though their feet dont' come up quite right you should be able to see the difference in them after a couple of months: steady road work is the best., but watch the pads don't get sore. Dabbing surgical spirit on the pads once a day, not too much, will help harden them up. Just sitting with the dog in its run will help too: just go in there and talk to the d
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WEll said Moletrapper: I've had experience of both sorts: the first which settle in straightaway, respond to training almost as well as a good lurcher, learn to love a cat within hours (seen this with my own eyes!) and are generally as nice as you could get, even retrieving rabbits to their owner. Then there's the highly alert, often slightly bulgy eyed 'hungry' to kill sort who don't care what they take on, and all that is in their minds is the thought "What am I going to kill next" and they do it with a gleeful expression in their eyes and a wagging tail. THe second sort will NEVER be safe
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Garden Flower Of The Moment
skycat replied to T.F.Student's topic in Wildlife and General Photography
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We have 5 jills in a court: straw on concrete, and lots of it: clean out completely once a week and corners daily: never had a jill die yet from not being mated: got an old one who must be 9 years old now and she hasn't had a litter in 7 years and she's the picture of health. It all boils down to scrupulous hygiene as has already been said: and a natural diet too.
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HELP: I want to see the end!!
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It looks like a 'cuckoo spit' thingy (with a parasite on board?) but I don't know the correct name for it.
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Every time I watch it it stops when the buffalo come back to save the calf! Anyone else got this problem and how do I watch it all???
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Millet: how much difference does the image stabiliser make? they seem one hell of a lot more money than the non IS lenses: are they really worth it? I have a shaky hand problem: do you think it would make things a lot better? Edited to add: actually I think I've answered that question myself on looking back over a few of your wildlife pics: do you think you'd have achieved those results without the IS?
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As the title says, almost a collision: didn't get to see the actual catch which was in the reeds: OK, not so quite to hand as her brother, but at least the Sparrer came my way and put the bunny down behind me. So things are progressing well LOL Putting the rabbit out of cover....... Straight at me....... Then by the time I could get the camera on her as I turned, she had turned it.... Then back past me: and the pose with a bit of a gormless look: actually she had been working hard for nearly an hour to find rabbits in the reeds at the edge of the lake: the l
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Apparently she hadn't been seen since Monday, and her owner was fearing the worst when the dog turned up at a garden centre, found collapsed just outside it. Very dehydrated and exhausted: probably been hit by a car as her front teeth were smashed and she is very bruised, luckily not worse. The garden centre had a pet department and a scanner, so they scanned her and gave the chip number to the dog warden who traced the owner straight away: thank God for chips!
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Dog is now home safe and sound having been found in a garden centre. Thanks for your concerns.
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I use an antihistimine cream like Piriton on them: make sure you don't get it in their eyes. I don't know whether it is reccomended for dogs though: might be an idea to check with the vet first, thout I've not had a problem. Another one I use is Germolene: antiseptic cream with a locally anesthetising effect.
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Lovely fat pups: the bitch is obviously doing them well.
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I think your'e right!
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Putting this on for a friend who has just come out of hospital: her dogs were being cared for by a friend in Spalding, Lincolnshire and one has escaped: it is.... SMOOTH LURCHER BITCH, BLACK AND TAN, NO FEATHERING (LOOKS LIKE A SMOOTH SALUKI) LEFT FRONT FOOT IS WHITE. BIT OF LEFT EAR MISSING. WEARING COLLAR AND TAGS. MICROCHIPPED. APROX 25" TALL. SPAYED. PET ONLY. WARY OF STRANGERS. If sighted please call this number: 0789 9047674
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Don't let shaun have the ferret: it won't last long there by the sound of it!!
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Lucky lucky pups they are to have such a great home: and the pics are just great too.
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Here's my beautiful 'splash' Modern Game cockerel: and a big THANK YOU to Nikey who sent the bird down to me: he's a cracking little bird and hopefully will produce speckledy little 'uns to my 'special' line of bantams which are OEG x Modern Game x Barbe d'Ucle mille fleur. Plus a pic of 'Young Man', my black/red Modern cockerel and 2 of the speckledy hens.
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There's only one way to get a dog obedient and that is to train it on its own and away from game/rabbits or whatever. Trying to train when there's more than one dog loose is an impossibitlity especially when the pup will want to compete with the other dog and try and find the game first: that competition thing sets in. Get the recall rock solid away from game on and its own before you ever try and do it in the field with distractions. All pups will try and test you as they grow up and every now and then you will need to go back to basics for a refresher course. Some pups will respond to a
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Give the idiot a hard talking to about what you should and should not do with a puppy!! It may plain ignorance and they may genuinely not know that they're doing wrong, but I'd give them some advice before they ruin the youngster.........or if they won't listen, give them their money back and take the dog back. :
