ferreting with my daughter

[simonrocco 175]

i had my daughter to stay at mine last night and i asked her if she wanted to go ferreting today she said yes straight away shes been a couple of times with me before and she really likes it shes only 8 years old so today we set off after dinner and went to a little place i know in a wood theres about 6 sets in it and theres also a couple of dykes with a few little set on near the wood. we started to net the holes up on the first set this is the first time iv let my daughter put the nets on and she done a good job of it the last few times i took her out she has just watched me put the nets on. i was just letting her net the easy holes but i was really impressed with her for her first time doing it anyway we fetched her ferret with us its a sandy hob which shes called scratchy because it s always scratching at its cage door we also brought my jill and my 6 month old kit we entered the sandy hob it went straight down and after about 2 mins it showed face at another hole but quickly went back down it was in for a further 4 mins so i got the locator out and got a reading on 1 and ahalf foot so i started to dig but just as i was about to break through it moved to underneath a tree about 3 feet to my left so i gave it a min to make sure it wasnt going to move then i started to dig again it said it was 2foot down but about a foot down i hit nothing but big roots we ended up not getting that rabbit it was about 5 mins before the ferret came out so we just picked it up and moved on to the next set but by this time id bumped in to one of my mates who had got into the bottom of the wood hed got there before me and had done the dyke sets and 2 of the sets at the bottom of the wood so i had a crack with him he was trying a new ferret out hed just got but had nt caught anything anyway me and my daughter carried on ferreting doing the 3 sets that my mate hadnt done but there was nothing at home so we desided to head back towards the car there was a couple of sets which my mate hadnt done so we did those the first one we done had nothing at home but the hob was in for a while so i gave my daughter the locator and said go on then find it,it took her about 40 seconds and she found it i couldnt belive it must be beginers luck she cant work the depth yet but she found the area it was in the ferret came out not long after that and we took the nets off and headed to the next set it was one that i didnt know was there till the other day when i spotted it when i was walking the dogs so i netted this one up as it was in the undergrowth and i didnt want my daughter getting caught up in the brambles it was about 6 holes mostly in the undergrowth there was one hole on the dyke side that my daughter was watching. once all the holes were netted i desided to enter my jill shes turning out to be a good little worker this will be her first season with me anyway i entered her and about a min later we heard bumping the rabbit came out of a hole on my side it seemed to creep out checking if all was clear then bolted with the ferret right behind it the jill went back down and searched the rest of the set but there was nothing more at home my daughter was over the moon that we'd caught one it wasnt the best of days ferreting but we both really enjoyed it and i was really proud of her for putting the nets on herself and using the locator i was hoping a rabbit would bolt into one of the nets that she set that would have made her day but she' ll catch one soon in a net shes set herself it will just be a matter of time ill take her to a better place next time. hope you like the write up and pics atb

[PoCk0 40]

Good write up, nice to see the young uns out, thats how i started

[darbo 4,779]

cracking write up and pics. your daughter did very well. nice to read things like this. well done.

[mark@mbb 31]

Good write up, nice to see the young uns out, thats how i started

Thats a great write up mate you should be beaming having a daughter that wants to get involved with what you do as long as you can keep her interested

 

Mark

[6pack 60]

Wish I could get my kids to come along to play with Thumper! lol.

Good write up

[simonrocco 175]

thanks for all the comments lads its great to get out with my kids hunting and even better teaching them how to do it properly. atb for the season lads

[Jamie m 668]

Well done my girlfriends son has no interest in the countryside or anything to do with a ferret : ( so you could say I'm Barron when it comes to passing it on lol

Edited September 26, 2011 by Jamie m

[simonrocco 175]

Well done my girlfriends son has no interest in the countryside or anything to do with a ferret : ( do you could say I'm Barron when it comes to passing it on lol

cheers pal i know what you mean my girlfriend son has no intrest in it to iv tryed my hardest to get him to come with me but he wont he seems more bothered about the playstation 3 than anything else but ill keep asking him cause id rather he was out doing something instead of stuck in playing games on the computer. atb for the season pal