I've 'ad mi breakfast.Nearly ten bells, I’ve not achieved much and the day is nearly lost
I've 'ad mi breakfast.Nearly ten bells, I’ve not achieved much and the day is nearly lost
At least you have enough evidence to identify the suspect ..... when you catch it flying over.
red feetWerrll, it'll ave white feet wuntit?
I suppose you're hoping to collect a reward now after all that detective work.
Well, it belongs to somebody who doesn't have a registered gait and who doesn't pick their claws up while they're walking around. So it's a cainid rather than a felid. So at least you haven't got one of those feral big cats that are part of the myth and legend of many northern European countries.Well, an eventful couple of days, without tinternet!
Can't fix my Disco's 3 amigos without it, as the Foxwell tends to indicate it is the shuttle valve and the work around is on here.
Now I'll have access to it again.
Weather has been very good, hot-ish during the days.
As many of you will know, wolves are now around lots of areas of France.
Some tw@tass of a tree-feckin vote-seeking, mispalced "animal lover" decided it'd be a good idea to reintroduce "native species" back into the wild.
So there are now bears in the Pyrénées, and wolves all over the shop. Even as far north as Normandy.
I was reading in the local rag that the nearest one to us was in the Vallée de la Thoré which isn't too far away.
But a neighbour says one has been seen on our road..
Remember those animal paw prints I put up at the beginning of the month?
Here is an image off google
And here is one of the ones I took. snow wasn't as crips and the prints were older, but......
Especially the one on the left, kind of pentangular don't you think?
And very the feckin same!
For the first time in my life it makes me wish I had a twelve bore to ba able to protect our dogs and chickens.
You need to take it easy too my friend.I got home and my wife was concerned and said I "looked Grey".
I suppose you're hoping to collect a reward now after all that detective work.
Well thats me for 10 days. I will use the time unwind and relax a little of course I have the P38 to prepare for its MOT but not until after the test results are in.
Oh feck TOO much eyeshadow!!!
"Cainid", you mean "dog thing" rather than a "felid" like a cat thing as in Felix the cat?Well, it belongs to somebody who doesn't have a registered gait and who doesn't pick their claws up while they're walking around. So it's a cainid rather than a felid. So at least you haven't got one of those feral big cats that are part of the myth and legend of many northern European countries.
Best of luck with all this, mate and do pay attention to the Docs, there is a faint chance they may actooly know what they are talking about!!Well thats me for 10 days. I will use the time unwind and relax a little of course I have the P38 to prepare for its MOT but not until after the test results are in.
"Cainid", you mean "dog thing" rather than a "felid" like a cat thing as in Felix the cat?
Funnily we do think we have seen a wild cat but he keeps himself to himself.
So you agree it might well be the wolf then?
And what the feck is a registered gait?
I have walked the way I have always walked all my life and never had to have it "registered"?
The problem is exactly the small farmers whose livelihoods depend on livestock. And now they have become protected species so the Frogs have to compensate the farmers and the farmers have to prove that it was a bear or a wolf that killed their stock. Load of work for the "fonctionnaires".Yup, canidae is the dog family, with all the dogs, foxes and wolves, and is part of the larger sub-order of caniformes which also includes things like bears and badgers and weasels. So basically dog like. Felidae are of course the cats, pretty much all of whom have retractile claws so they tend to lift them off the ground when walking around so in the footprint you tend not to see the claws. Cats tend to use a 'registered' gait, where they put their hind foot in the place just vacated by their front foot, whereas your visitor doesn't do that. I see from the maps of the distribution of Canis lupus lupus the Eurasian wolf that they're found in patches throughout France but especially in the mountainous areas in the east and south of the country. I think the resurgence in numbers is to do with the decline of the rural economy in those areas so you don't have so many small farmers whose livelihoods depend on livestock killing them. Now the place is full of retired British school teachers and the wolves are having a great time.