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Wildlife photographer

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Joined April 2012
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Richard Bowler
11 months
Sharing your life with animals is such a wonderful experience. Its also heartbreaking when they pass away. Rosie died on Thursday, she fell asleep in her favourite sunbathing spot. She was 11. She was such a beautiful soul.
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2 years
Charlie, shortly after he came to us. He'd had a bad start to life, abandoned on someones patio for 7 days, his back legs very weak. After round the clock care he came right. Five years on he still looks at us this way. @ChrisGPackham #FoxOfTheDay
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Richard Bowler
3 years
Brilliant news. @nationaltrust members have voted to ban hunting on their land. A massive well done to all involved in making this happen.
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Richard Bowler
1 year
What is it about the fox that makes some people act so violently just to be able to kill it. They must be wired differently, I couldn't sleep at night if I had snuffed out such a beautiful life. @ChrisGPackham #FoxOfTheDay
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Richard Bowler
1 year
Is there anything more beautiful in our countryside than the fox. It staggers me, that some people think they have the right to remove such beauty. @ChrisGPackham #FoxOfTheDay
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Richard Bowler
11 months
Thank you for all the wonderful comments today, it's comforting to realise Rosie touched so many people during her life. I'm going to be a bit quiet on social media for a while, but I'll be back and posting the odd photo of Rosie and the rest of the gang soon, thank you.
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2 years
If you saw yesterdays cub pic with the baguette. This is dad, returning from the cafe with a selection of sandwiches for his family. @ChrisGPackham #FoxOfTheDay
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Richard Bowler
5 years
Trying to do some Autumnal photography this evening. Charlie just wanted to nick the leaves and run off with them. Love the little ginger man.
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2 years
I'll never understand someone who doesn't see sheer beauty in those eyes. @ChrisGPackham #FoxOfTheDay
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2 years
Eyes bigger than its belly. When you're lucky enough to be born near a friendly cafe that puts left overs out for dad. Todays @ChrisGPackham #FoxOfTheDay
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9 years
For a change instead of a photo taken by me, one of me trying to photograph Hetty this afternoon #KeepTheBan http://t.co/OtcSA8kiog
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Richard Bowler
11 months
So pleased Wales banned the use of snares yesterday.
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Richard Bowler
6 years
The benefits of being snowed in. Taken from my living room while enjoying tea and toast :-) #Winterwatch
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Richard Bowler
2 years
A favourite photo of Rosie is todays @ChrisGPackham #FoxOfTheDay
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Richard Bowler
11 months
As a species we are despicable.
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11 months
This 28-year-old chimp was in absolute awe when she went outside and saw the sky for the first time ever. She had survived a research lab in New York, where animals were kept in small cages.
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11 months
Just a little montage, showing Rosie's friendship with Maddy. She loved Maddy so much.
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Richard Bowler
1 year
Just incase you didn't believe yesterdays post, about Charlie running towards the biscuit tin. Here's a couple of pics of him enjoying afternoon tea. @ChrisGPackham #FoxOfTheDay Proof, foxes are much more civilised than those that hunt them.
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Richard Bowler
5 years
Two of my ginger girls yesterday. Isn't it absolutely stomach churning, that in 2019 we will have a new PM that finds it acceptable for one of these to rip the other apart in the name of sport. No-one who finds this acceptable should be anywhere near a position of power.
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Richard Bowler
2 years
So todays the start of the "traditional" fox hunting season, though they've been cubbing for months. Imagine the mind set to inflict so much terror on such a sentient being. @ChrisGPackham #FoxOfTheDay
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Richard Bowler
1 year
A few photos Helen took yesterday. Hetty grooms me most days. @ChrisGPackham #FoxOfTheDay
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Richard Bowler
11 months
It takes a special kind of c@ #nt to train a terrier to kill a fox. As Maddy proves with her foxy friends, they naturally get on.
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Richard Bowler
1 year
Why is it, those who claim to speak for the countryside, can't see the beauty in it. Is this an unrealistic image of a fox, or would you prefer that of a dead fox strapped to a car at @RoyalAgUni @ChrisGPackham #FoxOfTheDay
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Richard Bowler
2 years
She loves her tennis ball so much. Rosie is todays @ChrisGPackham #FoxOfTheDay
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Richard Bowler
1 year
Because its fox cub season, my favourite fox cub image. @ChrisGPackham #FoxOfTheDay
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Richard Bowler
2 years
So it seems @WestHam condoning animal abuse tonight.
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Richard Bowler
2 years
Start the day with a smile. Rosie is todays @ChrisGPackham #FoxOfTheDay
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Richard Bowler
2 years
My contribution to @ChrisGPackham #FoxOfTheDay such a stunning animal
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Richard Bowler
2 years
A late post today, had a 3am start and only just got in. Todays @ChrisGPackham #foxoftheday is a young Rosie and Maddy looking at a bowl of treats.
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2 years
"I can see you". Todays @ChrisGPackham #FoxOfTheDay
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2 years
Another fox coming out of the shadows image. This time a young Charlie. @ChrisGPackham #FoxOfTheDay
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Richard Bowler
1 year
Imagine how dark your life must be, if all you see is something to terrorise and kill. @ChrisGPackham #FoxOfTheDay
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Richard Bowler
2 years
Todays offering for @ChrisGPackham #FoxOfTheDay Rosie standing at the entrance to her earth.
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Richard Bowler
1 year
1/2 Today, hunts will parade through towns and villages and then go out and kill foxes in the most savage and illegal way. Can you imagine other criminal gangs being allowed to parade through the streets. @ChrisGPackham #FoxOfTheDay
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2 years
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2 years
Frame filling fox. Nice and snug and warm. Today's @ChrisGPackham #FoxOfTheDay
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Richard Bowler
1 month
Because it's fox cub season. One of my most popular images, the "Baguette fox". This urban living fox family knew where the local cafe was and used it to full effect. #FoxOfTheDay
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Richard Bowler
1 year
Rosie is one contented fox in the snow. @ChrisGPackham #FoxOfTheDay
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Richard Bowler
4 years
Look how much they love their mum. I hope you see rats in a different light. I certainly do after watching their interactions yesterday evening.
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Richard Bowler
7 months
Maybe a picture of Charlie as a cub, is what people could do with in these terrible times. He had been abandoned for a week when he came to us, all he wanted was to feel safe.
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Richard Bowler
2 years
Despite what the gutter press are saying. There is no infestation of adders anywhere. They will not chase you, they will only bite you if you threaten them and pick them up. Please, just go about your day and allow adders to do the same. They're a declining species as it is.
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Richard Bowler
2 years
Charlie, giving me that look. He makes my day every day. I thought another black and white for todays @ChrisGPackham #FoxOfTheDay
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Richard Bowler
1 year
In all the years I've campaigned for foxes, its always baffled me how much criminality is tolerated and enabled by the authorities and those in power. All to destroy one of our most iconic and beautiful wild animals. @ChrisGPackham #FoxOfTheDay
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Richard Bowler
2 years
Todays @ChrisGPackham #FoxOfTheDay My partner Helens latest needle felt, fox creation.
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Richard Bowler
2 years
A Sunday morning chill for this fox. Todays @ChrisGPackham #FoxOfTheDay
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Richard Bowler
11 months
As you can see, we have a strict rule about animals on sofas.
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Richard Bowler
5 months
The look of joy on Charlies face as he sees its snowed over night. Remember if you see a fox hunt parading through your town or village today, their aim is to kill these sentient beings in the most barbaric way. Don't support them. #FoxOfTheDay
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Richard Bowler
2 years
Nothing to see here. Todays @ChrisGPackham #FoxOfTheDay
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Richard Bowler
1 year
Can you believe you can buy Hedgehog killer in the UK. Well thanks to @FerberPainting you can, as well a badger, fox, weasel killer. @DefraGovUK what are you going to do about it.
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Richard Bowler
1 year
Happy mothers day. Maddy our wonderful terrier, who's been a surrogate mum to 3 foxes. Rosie, Hetty and Charlie love her so much. @ChrisGPackham #FoxOfTheDay
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Richard Bowler
2 years
Charlie and Hetty doing their best impersonation of Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody album cover is today @ChrisGPackham #FoxOfTheDay photo. @DrBrianMay
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Richard Bowler
2 years
Better late than never, todays @ChrisGPackham #FoxOfTheDay
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Richard Bowler
11 months
If you saw yesterdays post, Maddy and Rosie soon out grew the basket to sleep in. It's pictures like these that show just how depraved fox hunting is. Needless to say, I sat on the floor.
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Richard Bowler
5 years
Look at the trust in Charlies eyes. What kind of a monster do you have to be, to even consider feeding him alive to a pack of dogs. Had a rant on FB about the pathetic sentencing of the cub case.
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Richard Bowler
2 years
Rosie, obviously interested in something going on behind me, rather than looking at the camera. Todays @ChrisGPackham #FoxOfTheDay
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Richard Bowler
2 years
The nose that knows I have treats. Had a bit of fun with Charlie and a wide angle lens yesterday. The lens needed a good clean from all the nose prints. Todays @ChrisGPackham #FoxOfTheDay
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Richard Bowler
2 years
Rosie, soaking up the rays yesterday. Todays @ChrisGPackham #FoxOfTheDay
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Richard Bowler
2 years
Todays image for @ChrisGPackham #FoxOfTheDay Foxes are highly beneficial to the gardener, keeping down rodents, labelling your rows of veg LOL.
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Richard Bowler
6 months
When Charlie was no bigger than my boot. He loved fighting it. #FoxOfTheDay
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Richard Bowler
6 months
Rosie was such a beautiful fox. @ChrisGPackham #FoxOfTheDay
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Richard Bowler
1 year
How self entitled you must feel, to kill our native wildlife. @ChrisGPackham #FoxOfTheDay
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Richard Bowler
3 years
Helen dislikes me using the C word. I know of no other word that describes this piece of sh!t so well though. Imagine living a life filled with such hatred and self loathing that you do this to such a wonderful animal.
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2 years
Nothing to see here. Charlie, thinking he is invisible. @ChrisGPackham #FoxOfTheDay
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Richard Bowler
1 year
Seeing as the CA blocked me yesterday for posting a photo of these 2, here's another. Two sentient beings clearly enjoying each others company and having fun. Have to wonder why the CA hates these photos so much. @ChrisGPackham #FoxOfTheDay
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Richard Bowler
3 months
Getting bored of Hares yet.
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Richard Bowler
2 years
The same city living fox as yesterdays post. Life is good for this chap, locals looking out for you, chicken dinners delivered and a large cemetery that closes to the public in the evening. @ChrisGPackham #FoxOfTheDay
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Richard Bowler
2 years
Last post for a week. Thought I'd leave you with an old image of Charlie as a youngster and his best mate Maddy. After an hour playing in the garden, they came in and crashed. @ChrisGPackham #FoxOfTheDay
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Richard Bowler
2 years
A rubbish fox picture. Todays @ChrisGPackham #FoxOfTheDay
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2 years
Charlie, helping in the garden. Yes we live on a slope LOL. @ChrisGPackham #FoxOfTheDay
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Richard Bowler
2 years
"Bottoms up" Light hearted @ChrisGPackham #FoxOfTheDay images to start the weekend. Dispelling the myth that dogs will hunt foxes instinctively. They have to be trained to hunt foxes, it's no accident.
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Richard Bowler
1 year
Well, that didn't take long after my post this morning. Here's another photo of 2, well 3 if you count me, highly intelligent sentient beings. None of us deserve to be ripped apart by a pack of dogs. #SaveAutumnWatch
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4 months
Charlie with his body guard. Don't forget, if you see packs of hounds out, there is illegal fox hunting going on. Trail hunting is a smoke screen, from the mouths of the hunting office and as seen on Ch4 news this week. #FoxOfTheDay
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2 years
After showing Charlie yesterday, all moth eaten during his moult. I thought today, an image showing him at his best. @ChrisGPackham #FoxOfTheDay
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2 years
Sitting at the entrance to her earth. @ChrisGPackham #FoxOfTheDay
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Richard Bowler
2 years
I can see you. Charlie in the shadows. Todays @ChrisGPackham #FoxOfTheDay
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Richard Bowler
6 years
Back from a few days in Bedfordshire, photographing the deer rut and camera trapping foxes and badgers in my Mum's garden at night. An Autumnal still life with a fox.
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2 years
Charlie, when he was a bit younger. @ChrisGPackham #FoxOfTheDay
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2 years
Todays @ChrisGPackham #FoxOfTheDay A young Rosie in Black and White.
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2 years
Look at the joy on her face. Rosie, having her favourite tennis ball thrown for her. Todays @ChrisGPackham #FoxOfTheDay
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Richard Bowler
1 year
Maddy and Rosie having fun. Well, if you watched @itvnews last night, you'd have seen the "realistic" view of the countryside @CAupdates would prefer you see. Call me old fashioned, but I prefer the view of #Autumnwatch @ChrisGPackham #FoxOfTheDay
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2 years
A frame full of fox. Rosie keeping an eye on proceedings. Today's @ChrisGPackham #FoxOfTheDay
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Portrait of a young Rosie @ChrisGPackham #FoxOfTheDay
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Richard Bowler
2 years
Today's @ChrisGPackham #FoxOfTheDay Charlie getting his daily scratch, he gets itchy while moulting.
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2 years
Rosie, taken yesterday. Not bad for an old girl approaching her 11th birthday.
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Richard Bowler
2 years
Todays @ChrisGPackham #FoxOfTheDay "Besties". Who'd have though that Maddy, our Lakeland/Patterdale cross was bred by terrier men. Both old girls now, but living their best life.
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Richard Bowler
3 years
If you can photo bomb a fox, you must always photo bomb a fox. Poor old Charlie, not the brightest spark, but I love him.
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Richard Bowler
6 months
If you saw yesterdays post, here's Charlie all grown up. #foxoftheday @ChrisGPackham
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2 years
Incoming fox cub. Charlie as a youngster is todays @ChrisGPackham #FoxOfTheDay
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Rosie, sleeping at the entrance to her earth @ChrisGPackham #FoxOfTheDay
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1 year
What a week when the reality of fox hunting was exposed. Now the Hunting office has put a stop to terrier work on fox hunts (been illegal for over 15 yrs mind). Heres a young Rosie with the only kind of terrier work she's ever known. @ChrisGPackham #FoxOfTheDay
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Richard Bowler
2 years
Something a little different for todays @ChrisGPackham #FoxOfTheDay My partner Helen has just finished her latest needle felt creation. Charles and Owl Capone, based on two characters in our life.
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Charlie, as a little cub, with his best mate Maddy. He still drops everything he's doing to be with Maddy when she's around. Todays @ChrisGPackham #FoxOfTheDay
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Richard Bowler
2 years
Happy New year, from me and my little family.
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Richard Bowler
7 months
I'm always being used as a lookout post. I do get my head groomed at the same time though. #FoxOfTheDay
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Richard Bowler
2 years
By exposing for the highlights, the shadows are thrown into darkness. Todays offering for @ChrisGPackham #FoxOfTheDay
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Richard Bowler
1 year
Humans sh!t on every inch of the planet. If ever one species deserved the name vermin.
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Everest Today
1 year
Disheartening to see the accumulation of garbage at Camp IV on Mt #Everest (8848.86 m). It's high time we address this issue with urgency and commitment. Let's demand stricter regulations, enforcement of clean climbing practices, and effective waste management strategies. Video
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2 years
A rather late @ChrisGPackham #FoxOfTheDay Charlie, sticking his nose in.
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1 year
Charlie.
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Richard Bowler
1 year
So the latest plan from this government, @NaturalEngland @TonyJuniper @NFU @DefraGovUK is now the localised extinction of badgers. FFS don't any of the other stake holders of our countryside have a say, you know, like the general public.
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Richard Bowler
11 months
After seeing that vile video yesterday of a terrier man training his dog to kill foxes. A young Rosie and Maddy showing what happens if you treat animals with kindness and love. Maddy was bred by a terrier man, her life could have been so different.
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