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    british big cats - your views

    there have been arrest made where certain people have been aquiring large felines keeping them in crappy sheds not feeeding them or allowing them exercise so that at a point when the cat is weak etc its is released for people who pay to hunt. should a cat escape it would not be reported and if...
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    burdock & knot weed

    bottom on is jap knotweed each new shoot sprouts off the ryzome as it spreads u can see the top of the ryzome supposed to be able to use knotweed too make jam
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    Weasels

    stoats are slightly larger than weasels and have a black tail tip weasels are the smallest of the muscalids wolverine the largest
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    id this plant

    yep looks like young chesnut to me too
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    british big cats - your views

    there was an article recenlty in one of the big uk papers regarding official sightings and confirmation of bog cat species residing in the uk wardens in the forest of dean have reported numerous sightings over a period and collected evidence whist performing deer counts in the dean and...
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    mink sightings

    spotted a mink recently on the wear in durham opposite the county hotel
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    british big cats - your views

    approx 2 yr ago there was a reported deer carcass found around iveston co durham whch after test was said to have been proved was predated on by a big cat
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    Ticks

    depending on the tick they will feed slowly over a couple of day period starting at the size of a pinhead slowly bloating to the size of a pea which is when ul see them on yer dog then theyl drop and not feed for a period depending on the regularity of food
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    Ticks

    used to be that parts of dartmoor were worse than others for ticks they used to be really bad round the gutter tor and cadover bridge area but some other places seemed to be very sparse
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    Ticks

    if you use AFTERSHAVE on a tick especially when there are small they will un hook themselves s the dont like the alcohol but u can feel em riggle if no joy try tweezers grab and turn anti clockwise and gently pull should come right off done it many a time
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    Rarest animal you have seen out

    oops missed that sentence sorr my eyes must be failing me hehehe
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    Shoot it or watch it??????

    shoot to kill the tree rat our native species needs us too cull the greys for their survival.
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    Rarest animal you have seen out

    over the years ive seen many things ive swam with dolphins and basking sharks of the coast of plymouth seen many deer badger foxes only seen one otter but this year i came across a pair of nesting long eared owls
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    Rarest animal you have seen out

    there is a mink living on the bank of river wear opposite the county hotel durham city
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    Rarest animal you have seen out

    the photos r of a mink not a pine martin another alien species
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    british big cats - your views

    In the 80s game keepers on the kellas estate scotland trapped and shot an nw unknown species of cat which was then named the kellas cat / rabbit eared cat due to its large ears and small head it brain size lead scientists to believe the cat cat possibly a hybrid solely ran on instinct. Google...
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    lymes disease

    last i heard the new forest uk had ticks carrying lymes disease scout association put out a warning to anyone camping in that area
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    british big cats - your views

    the had been reports of a skull found
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    You silly buzzard!

    thats definately a sparrow hawk looking slightly stunned majority of common buzzards (Buteo buteo) are brown with the breast mottling lighter brown with paler it it was grey with the pale breast and black mottling then it would have been a goshawk
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    Erm.. what's this??? help pls!!

    looks like digitalis exept the small plant unsure that one