Just one of those days . . .

[Ideation 8,217]

I haven't stuck up anything about the ferreting for the last couple of days because i've been too tired to sit and write a post. But thought i'd write up about yesterday.

 

Decided as the rugby was on this morning, to go out for a mooch with Johnnyboy68 and Young Tom yesterday. I woke up at 6, feeling pretty rough after too much red wine and not enough sleep, sorted some bits out and went down to pick up Johnnyboy, got back to mine to meet Tom at 8. We were still sat there waiting for him at half past / twenty to, so after sending him a text of where to meet us we headed off.

 

The plan today was to do a series of inter connected horse paddocks owned by different folk, all of which have asked / given us permission to clear the bunnies.

 

We arrived, and parked up, jumped into a little square of woodland, where the dogs gave a good strong mark straight away, on a fairly big set, amongst the trees. We started netting up and after doing 2/3 of it the dogs suddenly all rushed off, which was a bit strange, but they returned and we finished netting. Went to enter the ferrets and they were not interested. b*****d rabbit had bolted while we were netting up and fecked off, only thing that can have happened. Then got a mark on a small set further a long and entered a jill, got some instant bumping, then a kill, ferret out, shovel out, dig, rabbit number 1 in the bag, but really not the best of starts.

 

Continued into the paddocks, got a mark on another set, netted up and entered the ferrets, and had two bolts in rapid succession from the same difficult to cover hole. It was a good bit of teamwork both human and canine here. I netted it, and the first rabbit to bolt was grabbed by Finn as it tried to kick the net, and the Johnnyboy quickly renetted it, for the second rabbit to be scooped up by Gem as it bolted in the tail of the 1st.

 

Continued down the paddock, got a nice mark on a set in a hedge.

 

Now it's important to note here that there are a number of paddocks in a big kind of square, with one largeish one in the middle. Initially i had permission on all of them, and then someone took over the middle one, and i spoke to them explaining how i do all of the land that surrounds his paddock, and need to do all of the border hedges (for obvious reasons), he said, ok, just don't hurt/scare the horse (?). No problem.

 

Anyway, this mark we get is in one of the hedges that border the above mentioned middle paddock. So two dogs one side and 1 dog (being held) on the slightly sensitive side. The horse in question comes over and has a good scratch from us and stands very quietly and calmly watching proceedings. Just then the owner of said paddock comes streaming across the field yelling 'get that bloody dog out of my field, you are scaring my horse', in a proper panic, as if there is a dog hanging off the horses neck as it bolts about the field. We all look at him like he is mad, including the horse. I explained that i had spoken to him and he agreed that it was ok if we didnt scare the horse and he kept going on that the horse was going to get injured and die, because the dogs were ravaging it etc etc etc. At this point the horse was calmly munching some grass next to the whippet.

 

Anyway, end result was a ban from that paddock, with the final words, i want you to get rid of the rabbits but don't come in my bloody field to do it.

 

Nets off, rabbit left, and we continued on our way, he tried to lead the horse away, who pushed him aside and tried to follow us. . . . . .as we were obviously the first company it had had in a while.

 

The dogs then ran a rabbit into a hedge so we netted up, the hedge, dropped a ferret in, she rode the rabbit into the net, hanging on for grim life, worked the rest of the small hedge and managed another.

 

The rest of the day, every mark we got was on the border of dickheads field, so we had to leave them all, as we could only net one side of the hedges. At this point i could really have gone and kicked his c**t in. He was a weak, pathetic, panicky little shit who has moved to the country and knows f**k all about how it all works.

 

Ended up knocking off early as it was a waste of time. Finished with 5.

 

The highlight was finding an old American football and having a chuck about. ANd on the positive, we still haven't missed anything we have boted.

 

 

The panicking horse.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[judge2010 196]

good write up pal

[bunny killer 19]

had the opposite yesterday,,myxy was well abundant on the estate i ferret and shoot in the summer months,,i had a call to clear a long hedgerow in the week as they were planting the field ,its 90 miles up to tewksbury for me so thought it could be a long journey for a couple of pathetic myxyd bunnies,,but it turned out a tidy day we took 14 only 2 had the disease and it looked like they were getting over the worst,,how things can change in a few months..hope the rabbits go to town in his paddocks and burrow everywhere ,,

[f mac 40]

decent day out wasted by some townie is it worth doing it without the dogs ,prob not an option

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I assume that he will just get someone in to shoot them. . . . apparently that is better for horses????? Joker.

 

R.E doing it without dogs, 2 out of the 3 dogs were not in his field, and the 3rd was on it's way out of the field, and was at the time being held, on a lead, by a 14 year old lad, and is a whippet not a 27 inch bull x. We had just crossed from a paddock above his to one at the side, and were in the process of crossing the fence whilst i netted up the two holes on his side of the hedge/fence. I will continue to do what i can by hanging over the fence, but it's just a total fecking pain in the ass.

 

There is a public footpath through his field.

 

And horses in every field that surrounds, all of which ignore us when we are there as they are plenty used to seeing the dogs and the dogs avoid the horses. We have even lamped some of the surrounding fields with the dogs and had no issues.

 

He's just a f*****g tool, simple as.

[KittleRox 2,147]

and that horse is a minger, too fat to notice

[The one 8,594]

With the last two picts i take it the mrs was out ??.

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Not my kitchen mate, the 'missus' of the house hold took them out their box as soon as we walked through the door and gave them a good feed, she's one in a million.

[simonrocco 175]

good write up pal its annoying when people like that spoil your day he sounds like a right t**t

[johnny boy68 11,726]

With the last two picts i take it the mrs was out ??.

No mate she was in and she treats them ferrets better than me

[johnny boy68 11,726]

Good write up JJ

 

It was one of those days fella..........the guy was a bit of a pleb but what can you do?

 

Maybe have a look at some of the new permissions this weekend is it?

 

Rubber dinghy rapids bruv! :laugh:

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Sounds good to me mate!

 

ennit bruv. . . . . . tell him Omar!

[theferreter 311]

good stuff mate keep at them