Our Rasta doggy has a very sheep/fleece like coat so goes for a haircut every 2 months. That's 5 times a year more than me. She gets shorn, bathed and her nails cut and, within 2 days, she'll have rolled in something unspeakably smelly and need another shower. I suspect she'd bite the hand off anyone who tried to do a fluffy poodle job on her.
No excuses for trained hunting dogs who kill cats or any other pet or animal. In the UK, at least, hunting to hounds these days does not involve killing live creatures but chasing a lure on a trail that has been laid for the purpose.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
@Nanny Beach you are quite right to pick up on my poor use of English. I'm sure you know I am referring to a trailer on TV advertising such a show, whatever will they think of next. I shudder to think 😠
I do not advocate foxhunting. It looks like an unfortunate accident. It seems it is quite okay for people to keep cats out of control maiming and killing (or not quite killing) other animals, although they keep them for pest control.
Rats and mice can also be killed and controlled in a more humane manner.
And don't anyone give me the old "Oh but it is in their nature"....
be it a residential home, farm, small holding, or whatever.
People like me get regularly upset and "traumatised" by a vast number of other peoples cats, we see out of control on our property killing wildlife we wish to nurture and keep safe.
From the article cat.
"Spider was attacked at the family home in Bakewell"
"Spider was two years old and belonged to Rebecca Bingham's 16-month-old son"
"Ms Bingham said she had gone to feed Spider and the other cats who live in an outbuilding on the edge of a smallholding near her home, where the animals act as mousers and ratters."
Inconsistency in reporting does not help the situation either.
The hunt apologised unreservedly. I do not think they would have wanted bad publicity or been deliberately cruel. Even though they no longer hunt they are reviled even though they have moved with the times and changed.
At least there will be some happy rats and mice. Oops wrong thread.
Was just being wicked AllotmentBoy, because I said something about my daugher's car being written off because she hit a deer on the way to work, I said I did see the funny side, didn't tell her, the car was on finance, (5 years0 she had had it only a year, and the insurance paid up 2 grand less than she paid for it. Unfortunately there is no other way for her to get to work
In the UK, at least, hunting to hounds these days does not involve killing live creatures but chasing a lure on a trail that has been laid for the purpose.
Hah. In theory. If you ride around the countryside with a pack of dogs, you will 'put up' live quarry and however well trained the dogs, they will chase prey that runs.
Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
"I do not think they would have wanted bad publicity or been deliberately cruel. Even though they no longer hunt they are reviled even though they have moved with the times and changed.
At least there will be some happy rats and mice. Oops wrong thread.
You cant be serious. As Oscar wild once said..
“The unspeakable in pursuit of the uneatable!”
'The power of accurate observation .... is commonly called cynicism by those that have not got it.
I think they are holding onto hope that they will one day be allowed to restart 'official' hunting. In the meantime they just carry on unofficially. I've only once seen a fox hunt here but we see the stag hounds several times most years (although not so far this winter - is covid curtailing them, I wonder?). We always end up climbing hedges to get out of their way; they crash around with a sense of entitlement that probably was reinforced by all the 'we are the guardians of the countryside' furore that went on when the ban was brought in. And behind them come dozens of 4x4 cars ploughing up the green lanes and bridle ways.
I didn't live here before the ban, @Obelixx , so can't say whether they have got any better. Certainly they do try to call the hounds off when they get on to a deer but they rarely succeed with all of them so a stag heading across the fields with 3 or 4 dogs behind it is a common sight. We've been threatened by men on horses a few times and told 'you didn't see that'.
Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
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No excuses for trained hunting dogs who kill cats or any other pet or animal. In the UK, at least, hunting to hounds these days does not involve killing live creatures but chasing a lure on a trail that has been laid for the purpose.
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
“The unspeakable in pursuit of the uneatable!”
'The power of accurate observation .... is commonly called cynicism by those that have not got it.
George Bernard Shaw'
I didn't live here before the ban, @Obelixx , so can't say whether they have got any better. Certainly they do try to call the hounds off when they get on to a deer but they rarely succeed with all of them so a stag heading across the fields with 3 or 4 dogs behind it is a common sight. We've been threatened by men on horses a few times and told 'you didn't see that'.
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”