On Sat, 11 Oct 2003 17:28:48 +0100, Jaques d'Altrades
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On Thu, 9 Oct 2003 15:30:37 +0100, Jaques d'Altrades
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No - it's just that I'm always a bit reluctant to email a firm I don't
know, especially when the email address looks like a 'private' one

No. He's a gamekeeper who does a bit of supplying bits and pieces. You
never know, we might make one for you!

why won't he?

Why won't he what?

make one for you.

Who said he wouldn't?

someone said "we might make one for you!"
--
Martin

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Who said he wouldn't?

someone said "we might make one for you!"

I said. But as we often work together......

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On Fri, 10 Oct 2003 13:35:26 +0100, The Flying Hamster
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On Mon, 6 Oct 2003 15:16 +0100 (BST), Steve Harris wrote:
They climb quite well. I think you'd have to electrify the fence as
well. There have been reports of them climbing trees :-)

Heh, you've not seen anything until you've watched a pair of squirrels
play tag (at speed) on the walls of a pebbledashed house (think the
climbing walls some leisure centres have

I have, and it's not so amusing when it's your own pebbledash you can hear clattering
onto the patio. Kinda nice to see, anyway:-) We have south-facing pebbledash and
often catch squirls sunbathing on it. One even sticks his head round the window to
see what I'm upto in he-)

Not actually seen any of the grey buggers round here yet, I'm almost
hoping they're not as abundant or have all moved into the cities where
there's all that free food.
Ours appear to be mixed-race squirrels. The size and colouration vary quite a lot. It
seems somehow appropriate round he-)

Liz

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LizR wrote:

I have, and it's not so amusing when it's your own pebbledash you can hear
clattering onto the patio. Kinda nice to see, anyway:-) We have south-facing
pebbledash and often catch squirls sunbathing on it. One even sticks his head
round the window to see what I'm upto in he-)

Likewise. However, yesterday I was amazed to watch a neighbour's cat,
immediately outside my window, dancing madly around with a grey squirrel and
then dragging it off by the neck through the hedge. I'd have thought that a
squirrel's teeth would have been more than a match for any cat.

--
Ian Wolfe.
Linlithgow. Birthplace of Mary, Queen of Scots.
Blessed are the peacemakers.

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In message
LizR wrote:

I have, and it's not so amusing when it's your own pebbledash you can hear
clattering onto the patio. Kinda nice to see, anyway:-) We have
south-facing
pebbledash and often catch squirls sunbathing on it. One even sticks
his head
round the window to see what I'm upto in he-)

Likewise. However, yesterday I was amazed to watch a neighbour's cat,
immediately outside my window, dancing madly around with a grey squirrel and
then dragging it off by the neck through the hedge. I'd have thought that a
squirrel's teeth would have been more than a match for any cat.

I used to have a cat (a Leodhasach, so that might explain it) which
delighted in catching rats, stoats and weasels.

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Rusty Hinge
horrid·squeak&zetnet·co·uk
http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/hi-fi/tqt.htm

I've tried mixing "very hot" chilli powder with the birdseed. It
has discouraged the squirrel, but it seems to have kept the birds away
as well.


Ken Cohen

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I'd have thought that a
squirrel's teeth would have been more than a match for any cat.

I used to have a cat (a Leodhasach, so that might explain it) which
delighted in catching rats, stoats and weasels.

Our small cat once caught a stoat; I could hear the stoat screaming
and arrived in time to see the cat backing off the captive with an
appalled look on her face, then the stoat ran off. It had sprayed her
and she stank to high heaven for days. Since then I've noticed she
deliberately turns a deaf ear to stoat squeaks :-)

Janet.

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Wolfe) wrote:

with a grey squirrel and
then dragging it off by the neck through the hedge. I'd have thought
that a squirrel's teeth would have been more than a match for any cat.

Which may be why the cat gripped it firmly by the neck :-). Various
reports around the web suggest that a cat v squirrel fight could go
either way.

Steve Harris - Cheltenham - Real address steve AT netservs DOT com