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Re: Lockdown wildlfe

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Disoriented wrote: Mon Apr 27, 2020 10:19 am
BoniO wrote: Sun Apr 26, 2020 5:34 pm The wild boar over here in France are driving me potty. They're persistent little farquhars and have decided that my garden needs to be rotovated every night. Last year we had our dog with us and they left us alone. Sadly, Stan is no longer with us and the boars (sangliers) are making hay in his absence. I've now upgraded the electric fence, put physical barriers in the undergrowth, and it's war from now on. My money's on them.
Can’t you poison them?
Can we do that to the ones on here?
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Disoriented wrote: Mon Apr 27, 2020 10:19 am
BoniO wrote: Sun Apr 26, 2020 5:34 pm The wild boar over here in France are driving me potty. They're persistent little farquhars and have decided that my garden needs to be rotovated every night. Last year we had our dog with us and they left us alone. Sadly, Stan is no longer with us and the boars (sangliers) are making hay in his absence. I've now upgraded the electric fence, put physical barriers in the undergrowth, and it's war from now on. My money's on them.
Can’t you poison them?
Nope, nor would I want to. They belong here more than I do. They mostly get massacred by the bonkers French hunters during the hunting season anyway. I feel a bit sorry for the boars tbh. The hunting season isn't a great time for walking in the woods either as any tw*t can buy a high-powered rifle and go blatting at anything that moves. Last year a woman near here got killed whilst putting her washing out.
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BoniO wrote: Mon Apr 27, 2020 10:58 am
Disoriented wrote: Mon Apr 27, 2020 10:19 am
BoniO wrote: Sun Apr 26, 2020 5:34 pm The wild boar over here in France are driving me potty. They're persistent little farquhars and have decided that my garden needs to be rotovated every night. Last year we had our dog with us and they left us alone. Sadly, Stan is no longer with us and the boars (sangliers) are making hay in his absence. I've now upgraded the electric fence, put physical barriers in the undergrowth, and it's war from now on. My money's on them.
Can’t you poison them?
Nope, nor would I want to. They belong here more than I do. They mostly get massacred by the bonkers French hunters during the hunting season anyway. I feel a bit sorry for the boars tbh. The hunting season isn't a great time for walking in the woods either as any tw*t can buy a high-powered rifle and go blatting at anything that moves. Last year a woman near here got killed whilst putting her washing out.
I never realised how bad it was until I witnessed a load of them getting absolutely steaming drunk before they went out on their hunt. Whenever I get over there, we like trekking through some of the pre-Pyrenees hills, but during hunting season you're seriously risking your life going out there.
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Dunners wrote: Mon Apr 27, 2020 12:17 pm
BoniO wrote: Mon Apr 27, 2020 10:58 am
Disoriented wrote: Mon Apr 27, 2020 10:19 am

Can’t you poison them?
Nope, nor would I want to. They belong here more than I do. They mostly get massacred by the bonkers French hunters during the hunting season anyway. I feel a bit sorry for the boars tbh. The hunting season isn't a great time for walking in the woods either as any tw*t can buy a high-powered rifle and go blatting at anything that moves. Last year a woman near here got killed whilst putting her washing out.
I never realised how bad it was until I witnessed a load of them getting absolutely steaming drunk before they went out on their hunt. Whenever I get over there, we like trekking through some of the pre-Pyrenees hills, but during hunting season you're seriously risking your life going out there.
If you had your own gun with youse on the trek it would be safer.
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Missus just came down from upstairs having seen a rat in the garden.she was visibly shaken.I went and put some pellets down.not seen any rats in garden for years but they are getting brave now.
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Max B Gold wrote: Mon Apr 27, 2020 1:24 pm
Dunners wrote: Mon Apr 27, 2020 12:17 pm
BoniO wrote: Mon Apr 27, 2020 10:58 am

Nope, nor would I want to. They belong here more than I do. They mostly get massacred by the bonkers French hunters during the hunting season anyway. I feel a bit sorry for the boars tbh. The hunting season isn't a great time for walking in the woods either as any tw*t can buy a high-powered rifle and go blatting at anything that moves. Last year a woman near here got killed whilst putting her washing out.
I never realised how bad it was until I witnessed a load of them getting absolutely steaming drunk before they went out on their hunt. Whenever I get over there, we like trekking through some of the pre-Pyrenees hills, but during hunting season you're seriously risking your life going out there.
If you had your own gun with youse on the trek it would be safer.
I'm a lover, not a fighter.

Although, following both the Spanish civil war and WW2, there are hidden stashes of weapons still buried up on the hills. Republican sympathisers and resistance fighters used to hide out there. You have an excellent view over the Roussillon plain, where you could keep an eye on what the baddies were up to, including some of the French concentration camps.

Route De Taxo, which leads down from the D914 to Argelès plage winds through a series of holiday parks. Little do many of the holiday makers know that these holiday parks were in fact concentration camps during the war. I think the swimming pool complexes and twisty slides might be latter additions though.
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Re: Lockdown wildlfe

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Dunners wrote: Mon Apr 27, 2020 1:35 pm
Max B Gold wrote: Mon Apr 27, 2020 1:24 pm
Dunners wrote: Mon Apr 27, 2020 12:17 pm

I never realised how bad it was until I witnessed a load of them getting absolutely steaming drunk before they went out on their hunt. Whenever I get over there, we like trekking through some of the pre-Pyrenees hills, but during hunting season you're seriously risking your life going out there.
If you had your own gun with youse on the trek it would be safer.
I'm a lover, not a fighter.

Although, following both the Spanish civil war and WW2, there are hidden stashes of weapons still buried up on the hills. Republican sympathisers and resistance fighters used to hide out there. You have an excellent view over the Roussillon plain, where you could keep an eye on what the baddies were up to, including some of the French concentration camps.

Route De Taxo, which leads down from the D914 to Argelès plage winds through a series of holiday parks. Little do many of the holiday makers know that these holiday parks were in fact concentration camps during the war. I think the swimming pool complexes and twisty slides might be latter additions though.
The beach at Argeles was used by The French as a concentration camp for Republican refugees in the middle of winter. Thousands died of disease and exposure.
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Buffalo seem to be enjoying the peace and quiet

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Stamford O wrote: Sun Apr 26, 2020 2:10 pm Had a rat in my downstairs lav.luckily it had drowned and it flushed away.missus scared stiff of rats so I haven't mentioned it to her.might do when I have had few beers in company tho.on brighter note was couple of deer in woods on dog walk earlier
my mate had a hole in his toilet I said how did that get there he said he had sh.t a brick.
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