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    Thanks mate, i have a good idea on how to keep them but never had them as pets or workers so thought best to ask and get a better idea i know a cool little trick to stop your water freezing, if your using those water bottles for rabbits etc just make a sleave out of bubble wrap and some tape, then just slide it on the bottle, make sure its at least 3 layers thick and you shouldnt have any problems, bin doing it with rabbits for years and always worked
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    nice looking hutch and great looking dog whats its breeding? do your ferrets live outside year round then?
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    Thanks for all the advice, had a snoop around ebay for ferreting stuff and the prices and everything there seem pretty good so chances are i will get alot of my kit off there, do any of you keep you ferrets outside year round? and did you do so last year? i know the weather was pretty bad in alot of places, i live right on the coast so frost and snow dont really get a huge foothold never more then a week tops and the temps are never close to the worst places in the country, so i figured they would be ok out in the winter?
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    Hi all, basically im after abit of advice on how to go about starting ferreting and what i would need equipment wise to get started, i know how to keep ferrets and i could easily knock up a decent run with built in house etc in no time so that isnt a problem, a few questions i have are, do you need to breed a jill? or is this one of those myths surronding a type of animal lol, and are jills better for ferreting? i also intend on taking my plummer/lakeland terrier with me, the bloke i got him from said he was introduced to ferrets and is good with them, but that a good f
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    Ive studied genetics, not at a very high level but ive learnt enough to know that line breeding isnt a good idea, and before anyone says other wise let me explain my point, it can and does 'lock in' attributes that you may want and without it no breed of dog would be able to breed 'true', and i would never judge anyone for doing it with their own lines but it can and does have its issues. An anmials gentic code is what makes that animal the way it is and what makes its immune and succeptable to certain things, it is made up of all its parents gentic codes, which is in turn made up of
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    % less volume sounds good, the dalmation shits are like a horse lol, luckilymy step dad is good mates with the local butcher so im pretty sure we would get a good deal on the off cuts etc he's going to go in on monday to ask
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    Thanks for the help everyone, my step dad actually cam home with a bag of different dog food (wheat and gluten free) the day i wrote this tpoic, so he has said he wants to get him onto that fist for a few weeks and see how he fares up We always introduce new food gradually i always thought it made sense, its better for the dog and your the one who has to pick up the shit so why make it a harder for yourself with runny crap lol i think this is the route we will take after hes been on this new food for a little while, and if it starts to improve im sure he will end up on a BARF
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    you know what i bet thats the reason he eats it, as the older cat wont eat alot of foods, except for tinned but only certain flavours, tbh he lives almost off a barf diet come to think of it, he has alot of tuna, fresh fish, sardines, chicken and occasionally tinned food, i dont have much to do with the cats as they are my mums and she tends to do all the feeding. Thanks for the advice ive been looking into BARF for a while, i have studied a little bit on dietry needs and nutriton in college etc but until recently when i got my own dog i hadnt really thought about for them,
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    Thanks wilf ill look into that, The worming was reccomended by the vet, he also has a habit of eating cat crap (i also put this down to him needing more from his diet), im looking into it as much as i can before suggesting it as i know they will be abit hesitant of the dog going onto raw, but the cats eat all sorts an they are healthy as hell
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    Hi all, we have a 32kg dalmation, he is a very athletic, strong and well built dog with endless amounts of stamina, he goes on 2 walks a day one is a 6mile bike ride, the other a really long mooch around (approx 4mile walk) and some addtional walks hiking and along the beach within the week aswell, He gets the shits alot, he will have one 'good' solid turd a day and then he will have around 3/4 runny turds, i have been harping on for months to everyone that it is his diet but it seems to fall on deaf ears, he has been to the vets had tests etc and they cant reccomend anything, they p
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    I have got to question where you get you percentages from? Wont the genes be split 50/50 between both parents? All your other points make good sense though. genetic's 101. bitch= x x dog = x y the y chromo is basically zero in a dogs make up so the bitch makes up 75% where as the dog makes up only 25% that 25% from the dog brings plenty to any future pups and stamps common traits both good and bad. a bit like adding a bit of bully to a lurcher line. Actually that isnt correct mate, like natasha said you are 50/50 from each parent, you get given one chromosome from
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    He looks like a bit of a lump in your avatar mate, Mine did for ages and i for some reason one day he just picked it up, Thats my plan mate , suppose its a good overall but just when your in the situation you need them to leave and come back would be nice if they did lol
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    sounds like youve done a great job mate, do you have any pics? also what sort of terrier is it if you dont mind me asking?
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    Mine used to do that with dogs now he's not to bad, took me ages to break the habit though so good luck mate it WILL be frustrating but its worth it in the end, i use his ball as a distraction around other dogs, if he it to focus on then he is great just plays fetch constantly, or bounces round with the big dog, but if i dont have the ball its head down looking for stuff with the other terrier and ears off lol overall though im really pleased with him as to start with he would just bolt off and i had to go get him, now he does come back unless he is onto something like this morning
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    mines training has come along way since i got him, but i wouldnt say it was 100% he's not been hunting yet this morning was an accident, so there may still be hope, think ill just have to be more vigilant when hes off the lead to try an stop him getting into trouble
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    Have you always been able to do this or was it something that came with age? Yea was him lol, why do you ask mate?
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    Think your right about the lead thin TM, im amazed he got through the gap in the fence, it was just a standard 'farm' fence the sqaure wire but somehow he got through it, im glad the rabbits went into the hedges and not to ground other wise i think id still be there looking for him! I bet you mates where gutted Dog Fox i know i would be, for a second this morning i though 'crap he's dead' coz a train was due, we saw it go past on the way home
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    Hi all, i was exercising the terrier this morning along the cycle track, ive been walking here for years but never seen alot of rabbits the odd one now and then, anyway my terrier was happily following me then all of a sudden he stopped dead head down on a sent and flushed about 8 rabbits out of this bush and into a small field, naturally he was threw a hole in the fence and after them, and he was at the heels of one when it got into another bush and he dived straight through it, i was calling him back as there is an active railway line next to the 2nd bush, but he wouldnt retur
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    Hi all, im looking to get some pike fishing in soon, just wondered if anyone knows anywhere good in north wales?
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    would have been probably but, as he shares his run with the other dogs and they come in for winter i wanted him to come in with them, thats the problem with cats you kick em out and the feckers always come back!!
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    Will do mate Thanks for the tip mate, you got any pics of your landy?
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    sorry if my post has caused confusion, basically, i orignally got the dog to go bushing with and was told he was ok with cats and ferrets, but turns out he hated cats, so i wanted to get him broken to our cats before i took him incase he thought anything he chases he kills etc, and the main reason i did it this was out of concern of all the cats but mainly our small cat as she is the most fragile and of a similar size to a rabbit, and i didnt want him to pick her up and shake her around. And as he was to be a pet aswell as a worker he would live in the house and the cats roam round the ho
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    If anything happened to one of them cats i would be out on my arse lol!!!!
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    mainly because i still live at home and my dog has to be cat friendly as my mum has 4!! and i didnt wanting him attacking them in the same way he would a rabbit as one of the cats is a dwarf so he could easily really hurt it
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    hi all, Im very pleased!! i didnt want to take my terrier out bushing/ferreting until he was properly broken to my mums cats just incase he killed the small one (smaller then a rabbit), so after sorting all his other training out over the last 3 months i made the introduction with him muzzled and my secret weapon (milk bottle with stones in it) and as expected he ran at the cat one shake of the bottle he stopped dead and skulked off to the other corner of the room, now he walks right past the cats, they run under his nose etc and he doesnt chase them at all!! even with hsi muzzle off, so
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