Other creatures.

[longers01 2,398]

On 09/04/2022 at 10:14, mC HULL said:

the odd escaped ostrich

Ive had his little cousin when younger lol 

[mC HULL 14,142]

14 minutes ago, longers01 said:

Ive had his little cousin when younger lol 

emu  

it was on them fields off track one after picnic area  

[longers01 2,398]

Wasn’t there mate keep guessing lol atb Longers01 

[Aussie Whip 4,181]

11 hours ago, TOMO said:

where abouts are you ausiwhippet

Central Tablelands TOMO about 3 1/2 hours North West of Sydney, up in the hills. On 25 acres now, Autumn now and feral pigs have started moving through the property, going to try and trap them as not enough area to hunt with dogs. Little Parson is going crazy on the scent so have to keep him on a lead when walking.

Edited April 11, 2022 by Aussie Whip

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On 09/04/2022 at 18:52, sandymere said:

One of mine caught a  peacock couple of years ago,  managed to save it a released it, still have a couple of  feather in a vase from it. Caught woodcock and snipe lamping.  Flushed a marmot with a Ferret on Dunstable downs ....... few odd things over the years.

i used to supply rabbits to whippsnade zoo 10 plus years ago....

place used to amaze me ....as you went in there was no gate just one of those gate houses with a security chap and a metal barrier that went up and down....as soon as you went in there was wallaby just loose....there was nothing to stop them just hoping out ....and the place had loads of munty just wandering round semi tame....you could get just a few feet from them

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1 hour ago, TOMO said:

i used to supply rabbits to whippsnade zoo 10 plus years ago....

place used to amaze me ....as you went in there was no gate just one of those gate houses with a security chap and a metal barrier that went up and down....as soon as you went in there was wallaby just loose....there was nothing to stop them just hoping out ....and the place had loads of munty just wandering round semi tame....you could get just a few feet from them

Indeed, i wandered the zoo as a young lad then hunted the scrub on the downs all around there as a teen. i thought it was normal to chase muntjack before most of the country knew they existed or ferret with a free flying Macaw sitting  in the scrub above us. As most lads in them days I had an Egg collection but mine was a little different to most of my mates, from ostrich to Goldcrest to flamingo. I made me mum a bracelet from the tail hair from a giraffe and collected Daphnia to feed my fish from a pool in the main paddock. We had ostrich egg omelettes and bottle fed wallabies at home. I was ever an avid collector and had all sorts squirrelled away lol. My only regret is that as a lad i had a pile of sketch books that i'd filled whilst wandering the zoo and when i 1st left home i threw them out, ah the folly of youth. Over half a century latter it wouldn't be allowed but it was a different age with different values.

Edited April 11, 2022 by sandymere

[Daniel cain 46,659]

15 minutes ago, sandymere said:

Indeed, i wandered the zoo as a young lad then hunted the scrub on the downs all around there as a teen. i thought it was normal to chase muntjack before most of the country knew they existed or ferret with a free flying Macaw sitting  in the scrub above us. As most lads in them days I had an Egg collection but mine was a little different to most of my mates, from ostrich to Goldcrest to flamingo. I made me mum a bracelet from the tail hair from a giraffe and collected Daphnia to feed my fish from a pool in the main paddock. We had ostrich egg omelettes and bottle fed wallabies at home. I was ever an avid collector and had all sorts squirrelled away lol. My only regret is that as a lad i had a pile of sketch books that i'd filled whilst wandering the zoo and when i 1st left home i threw them out, ah the folly of youth. Over half a century latter it wouldn't be allowed but it was a different age with different values.

Sounds like living the dream mate for a young lad growing up

[sandymere 8,263]

11 minutes ago, Daniel cain said:

Sounds like living the dream mate for a young lad growing up

It was every day for me and i had no idea how lucky I was, a normal day was, a cold Easter day mooching about till i was frozen to the bone so going to one of the keepers sheds where they made me a hot cuppa from the little kettle on the primus stove then ferreted about in the cupboard to find an eagle owls egg to give me with warnings it was "addled so i'd best be careful blowing it". Or a summers day setting out to find baby mara from the outer edges of the Zoo then helping with the primate section and having a marmoset climb over me in a made game of chase.

I was always a little disappointed that the Mara never set out on voyages of discovery across the downs like the MJ etc, I've always wondered how they would fair with a lurcher behind them.

[mackem 28,252]

57 minutes ago, sandymere said:

Indeed, i wandered the zoo as a young lad then hunted the scrub on the downs all around there as a teen. i thought it was normal to chase muntjack before most of the country knew they existed or ferret with a free flying Macaw sitting  in the scrub above us. As most lads in them days I had an Egg collection but mine was a little different to most of my mates, from ostrich to Goldcrest to flamingo. I made me mum a bracelet from the tail hair from a giraffe and collected Daphnia to feed my fish from a pool in the main paddock. We had ostrich egg omelettes and bottle fed wallabies at home. I was ever an avid collector and had all sorts squirrelled away lol. My only regret is that as a lad i had a pile of sketch books that i'd filled whilst wandering the zoo and when i 1st left home i threw them out, ah the folly of youth. Over half a century latter it wouldn't be allowed but it was a different age with different values.

Are you Gerald Durrell? 

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We turned two baydog hogdogs loose one night.They left on a hog.Ran him 2miles until the hog ran through a bison farm.The curs decided to bay up a bull bison.We all made it out alive but wasn't fun catching the dogs.

One day me and my father was walking a lurcher.This lurcher had quickly dispatched everything he had been on.We could see a black dot on the horizon.We assumed it was a coon so we slipped the lurcher.It was a Skunk! Bad part was this was the one and only time this lurcher decided to retrieve his quarry alive.Me and my father was trying to run away and the lurcher is doing his best to bring us this alive skunk who is spraying everywhere.Rough drive home.Took 6 months to get the smell out of the vehicle.Good times.

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41 minutes ago, mackem said:

Are you Gerald Durrell? 

No but I have met him, along with Johnny Morris and Phil Drabble of course, Animal Magic on the telly and copy of A Zoo in my luggage beside one of Of Pedigree Unknown on my bookshelf. Halcyon days.

Edited April 11, 2022 by sandymere

[mackem 28,252]

6 minutes ago, sandymere said:

No but I have met him, along with Johnny Morris and Phil Drabble of course, Animal Magic on the telly and copy of A Zoo in my luggage beside one of Of Pedigree Unknown on my bookshelf. Halcyon days.

What was Phil a weasle in my meatsafe drabble like in person? Never used to like Johnny Morris and his anthropomorphism voices. 

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13 minutes ago, mackem said:

What was Phil a weasle in my meatsafe drabble like in person? Never used to like Johnny Morris and his anthropomorphism voices. 

Boils my piss does anthropomorphic voices 

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Just now, Black neck said:

Boils my piss 

UTI? 

[sandymere 8,263]

2 minutes ago, mackem said:

What was Phil a weasle in my meatsafe drabble like in person? Never used to like Johnny Morris and his anthropomorphism voices. 

Only met him once, later in life and he seemed a decent sort, had a chat about how times have changed and writing, he encouraged me to do so but alas never got round to it. He'd moved from country sport by then and was known as an anti re hunting although he was interested when I mentioned i kept a lurcher and i got the feeling there was still an inkling to see a dog run. 

When I met GD we chatted about Whipsnade, i met him at London Zoo, and we compared notes, as i say it was a different age and at the time he was there, and still to an extent I, most keepers were from farming backgrounds and treated the animals like farm stock .

 

I don't remember much about JD, I was young, he signed one of my sketch books if I remember right.