Out for a mooch today

[johnny boy68 11,725]

Hi everybody......Me and Ideation went for a little mooch today with my old bitch and his young whippet,the day started slow with not much about then we came up to a warren thats been quite productive in the past.Both dogs marked strongly on a few holes so we net up its about 40+ holes all quite tightly spaced together so not to much hassle and the covers died right back now after the recent bad weather.Collared the ferrets up and away they go......within minutes a rabbit hits the net closely followed by another and they keep bolting at regular intervals with the odd one slipping the nets and either making it to safety or being picked off by the dogs.Then the ferrets show and we realise they've both not got their collars on so a quick scan with the locater find one at 6 feet and the other at 8 feet we retrieve the one at 6 feet and dig 6 feet to the other one to be met with a blanket of old fencing and some giant stones very hard digging especially when only armed with a dessert spoon size draper shovel well couldn't retrieve the one collar as didn't have any wire cutters so we'll go and get it back tomorrow.

Not a bad few hours really apart from the digging but thats the game I suppose if it was easy everybody would do it then,ended up with 13 rabbits Both dogs and ferrets did well........Special thanks to Jai's missus who though a little reluctant to jump on the rabbits at first after a few encouraging words was soon grabbing them like a seasoned ferreter

 

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[langouroux 14]

nice post that mate. my friend and I recently had the same issues with collars, i recetnyl put a post up in the ferreting section, and i was suprised about the amount of people that dont use any sort of collar at all! not even a bell!

[artic 595]

A good day out. So who did all the dirty work?

 

Nice one, dogs looking very well. Nicely placed out rabbits, how it should be.

 

[rocky1 942]

good work mate ,that the way 2 start the new year off,atb johnnyboy68 and ideation

[johnny boy68 11,725]

A good day out. So who did all the dirty work?

 

Nice one, dogs looking very well. Nicely placed out rabbits, how it should be.

 

Thanks mate......this warren as been around since I've had dogs and runs deep and is full of all sorts of crap

 

Jai did a little more than me but he is younger but we both got stuck in though

[leepieman123 8]

nice catch john

[johnny boy68 11,725]

good work mate ,that the way 2 start the new year off,atb johnnyboy68 and ideation

Thanks mate

[johnny boy68 11,725]

nice post that mate. my friend and I recently had the same issues with collars, i recetnyl put a post up in the ferreting section, and i was suprised about the amount of people that dont use any sort of collar at all! not even a bell!

Thanks mate

 

This warren is ancient and its had loads of stuff tipped on top of it over the years.......the collars came off on a load of old fencing 6/7 feet into the warren

[johnny boy68 11,725]

nice catch john

Cheers Lee......you should've came along

[KittleRox 2,147]

nice post that mate. my friend and I recently had the same issues with collars, i recetnyl put a post up in the ferreting section, and i was suprised about the amount of people that dont use any sort of collar at all! not even a bell!

Aye they should leave they collars doon there,they,re no worth a sook anyway

Only joking lads,good stuff

[leepieman123 8]

nice catch john

Cheers Lee......you should've came along

wish i did mate next time you go give me a text an ill come mate,cheers

[johnny boy68 11,725]

nice catch john

Cheers Lee......you should've came along

wish i did mate next time you go give me a text an ill come mate,cheers

I will......less work for me to do

[leepieman123 8]

when you thinking about going next mate

[Ideation 8,216]

Good post Johnnyboy!

 

He makes the digging sound easy mind. It was some odessy, i feel we did our mining heritage proud the warren is basically a very large pile of rocks, some probably -100 kilos in weight, that has over the years been covered in ash, dirt, broken glass and all manner of metal shit. I found a set of car brake lights? The hole we dug was 6 foot deep but also about 4-5 foot by 3 foot, in order to maneuver the f*****g rocks. The spade head is only twice the size of my palm.

 

Any how, good laugh, spent 2 hours being the human mole and met some interesting folk, it was quite the social occasion, i think we had, 9 people, 6 dogs and a heavily armed ninja stop by during the day at various points to (mostly) have a little watch and a smoke and say a friendly hello.

 

A special mention goes to my misses who, inspired by johnnys gentle words leapt on her first bunny whilst we were fannying about

[johnny boy68 11,725]

Good post Johnnyboy!

 

He makes the digging sound easy mind. It was some odessy, i feel we did our mining heritage proud the warren is basically a very large pile of rocks, some probably -100 kilos in weight, that has over the years been covered in ash, dirt, broken glass and all manner of metal shit. I found a set of car brake lights? The hole we dug was 6 foot deep but also about 4-5 foot by 3 foot, in order to maneuver the f*****g rocks. The spade head is only twice the size of my palm.

 

Any how, good laugh, spent 2 hours being the human mole and met some interesting folk, it was quite the social occasion, i think we had, 9 people, 6 dogs and a heavily armed ninja stop by during the day at various points to (mostly) have a little watch and a smoke and say a friendly hello.

 

A special mention goes to my misses who, inspired by johnnys gentle words leapt on her first bunny whilst we were fannying about

Gentle words :laugh: "feckin jump on it mun" hardly gentle but they did the trick.........forgot to mention your missus in the write up :icon_redface: We'll make a ferreter out of her now mun.....she did well

Yes quite a varied assortment of charscters turned up.......it did turn into quite the social occasion at one point

And the heavily armed ninja disappeared just like a ninja too