Pest control

[Guest MOLLY]

A few people may remember a couple of years ago a lady got my details from the farmer i have permission at. She had trouble with a rouge rabbit in her lovely gardens. I spent hours making the garden as rabbit proof as i could and looking for the little bugga. The dogs were not picking up an scent at all, not even slightly excited. I went for several days, and days after another fruitfless trip, she would ring up and tell me she was watching it whilst on the phone We did eventually get it, the terriers flushed it and it got itself wedged between a shed and the stone wall.

It earned me a couple more fields of permission to lamp and ferret, the lady used to fox hunt in her younger days and loves the dogs, she even potters down the fields to the sets to say hello when we ferret.

Well i got another phone call last week so off sis and i went with 3 terriers and a lurcher today. Her husband drives one of those buggies around the gardens and he leaves the gate open into the main garden, where she is having the problem, she thinks this is how they are entering. Her friends Jack russell pup had caught a very small babe the day before but there was still a half grown one there she had seen this morning. Apart from a few dottles on the lawn no sign at all of a rabbit. Her stunning garden is about an acre of wooded area, formal gardens and veg patch.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Any hints and tips what to look for would be greatly appretiated, but i think every single piece of ground was covered at least 3 times by the dogs. So its weekly trips again till we catch it.

 

 

The entrance to her house is also wooded with a formal garden next to the cottage on her land, they had a couple of chases there....

 

 

 

 

 

We then had a walk around the fields we lamp, it is absolutley lifting with rabbits at the mo, in the season it is heavily poached and they become lamp shy very early on, so its going to mean we are out as soon as the nights are cool enough in the new season

Nothing caught, apart from the garden we had not intended to anyway.....but in the imortal words of Arnie....we'll be back

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

MOLL

[Guest Frank]

Looks a nice polace for a chase or 2

Good luck with it Moll, keep us posted.

 

Frank.

[Guest Ditch_Shitter]

She lives in a house, in a very big house in the country!

 

 

Moll; Next time the lady spots the offender, how about asking her to just walk it up and note where it goes to. That'd give ye a lead.

[Guest MOLLY]

Its a good place to just go and potter about frank. They never bother you, just leave you to your own devices. And you can find some game in the most unlikely of places, lol.

 

 

 

 

 

She even has rats occasionally, they come to get the fallen scraps froom the bird table....heavenly place

It was a nice secure place to take Jazz when she was recouperating from her op, just to keep her paw in so to speak.

 

 

Like i said, it does'nt have to be hundreds of acres to be a good place to be

 

 

Is'nt it just Ditchy But a lovelier lady you could'nt wish to meet. No airs and graces and very kind. She always invites me in for a cuppa, and i get the odd jar of home made jam.

Such a simple idea and yet brilliant, thank DS

MOLL.

[Guest Frank]

Sounds like some folks i know over here, warm and inviting, with no strings attached.

 

Frank.

[OldTrapCollector 377]

I like the little garden jobs, it is like schoolboy hunting sometimes - 1 man, 1 rabbit and a kind of 'Catch the Pigeon' style hunt for one bunny.

 

I used to look over a whole raft of large country gardens that sided each other and led up to my rearing field. I t was always good for a dozen rabbits and I could keep on top of the vermin if required too - many's the time a big cub moved into the bramble patches and could soon be accounted for with little effort.

 

Looks like those terriers are outstripping the lurcher there Moll in some pics, fleet footed over a short chase aren't they?

 

OTC

[Guest MOLLY]

I like the little garden jobs, it is like schoolboy hunting sometimes - 1 man, 1 rabbit and a kind of 'Catch the Pigeon' style hunt for one bunny.

 

I used to look over a whole raft of large country gardens that sided each other and led up to my rearing field. I t was always good for a dozen rabbits and I could keep on top of the vermin if required too - many's the time a big cub moved into the bramble patches and could soon be accounted for with little effort.

 

Looks like those terriers are outstripping the lurcher there Moll in some pics, fleet footed over a short chase aren't they?

 

OTC

A very good description, you sorta get lost in concentration, your own world as only children do...hard to describe

 

Found this youngster yesterday died where he dropped , and no-ones disturbed him since....

 

 

 

Terriers are invaluable in places like these with lots of places to hide, they are usually the ones to find the rabbits 1st, and straight onto them. One of the reasons i took the small lurcher, the big lad needs a roundabout to turn

Good fun for all of them, helps to keep some of that summer fat at bay

 

 

 

Phoned the lady this morning DS, she will try to see where it goes or if there is a pattern. But as she rightly said, when it gets into one of the bigger shrubs or ground cover, you cannot get around the other side of it quick enough to see where it goes or if it lies up. But we can only try.

MOLL.

[pointer28 1]

She had trouble with a rouge rabbit

 

God those rouge rabbits are a real nuisance, far worse than the normal brown ones. Still the nice red colour stands out great when you're lamping.

 

She lives in a house, in a very big house in the country.

 

Tell me this, is she a big fan of Blur?

[Guest Lurcherbitch]

A great read & fantastic pics Moll. xx

[poppy1 0]

Fab read molly and you always seem to come up with great photo's

Steve

[martin 332]

Great read and great pics.............you are very lucky..................Mzartin.