Moonlight Ferreting With Pup

[FERRETBOY 680]

I decided last night to try some night time ferreting. I have a cracking spot that has some nice open warrens which make it easy netting and you don't have to worry about losing your ferret but still , I chose to use an albino ferret rather than the polcat. All the warrens I circled with the longnet, 50yrds 6z quickset system. I enters the ferret and with seconds a rabbit bolts, it hits the net but bounces over and makes a run for it. Gem gives chase but as expected the rabbit gets away. As im trying to sort out the net and get Gem to back at the same time, another rabbit bolts and gets proper tangled.I am dispatching the rabbit it gives out an almighty kick and cuts through my hand which imediatley starts stinging but I continue to call Gem over. She finally comes and we move onto another warren.

 

Again I set the net, spread the bagging evenly to prevent anymore escapees , enter the ferret and wait for the bolters. Again I don't have to wait long as two rabbits bolt at the same time into the the same section of longnet and both get tangled. Gem tries grabbing one whilst I dispatch the other, I try also to get her to come off the rabbit but she doesn't listen. I stick my knee on her rabbit and continue to try and stop her mouthing the rabbit as I chin my rabbit. I then calm her down and move her away from the rabbit still in the net and chin that one also. three rabbits in less that 20 mins.

I re enter the ferret and another rabbit goes to bolt but sees me standing over the hole and retruns to the warren, amature poacher .The ferret catches up with the rabbit and I get to stick my hand into the hole to remove the fourth rabbit.

 

I try another warren that doesn't produce and then continue to the final warren. The longent isn't big enough to go around the whole warren which is about 10 holes at most. So I have to stand in the gap between the longnet. Gem sits patiently at my side. I stroke her neck and run my hands down her back to calm her frame. Then a rabbit bolts , it hits the net and Gem flies in straight after it but pushes it back out the net and gets herself tangled. The rabbit escapes and I have to untangle my pup. It was then another rabbit bolted staright over the net im trying to sort out. Gem goes after it but it reaches the hedge. then another rabbit bolts for the gap between the longnets and also makes for freedom.

 

It was a great couple hours in the end with a tally of 4 rabbits. The pup doing me proud and is as silent as a mouse. She moves over a warren like a seasoned dog already, paw raised and ears pointing to the sky. Just love watching her learning and making mistakes.

 

thanks for reading

 

rew

 

 

 

 

[TOMO 29,273]

Nice one mate ,,,I used to love a bit off night ferreting,,great sport on the right spots

[micky 3,325]

Had some good bags on the banks at the back of Croxston Kerrial , i was only a kid then and the two blokes i went with used to have a gutsful at a pub at Waltham on the Wolds , after that they were ready to fight all the Belvoir keepers one handed .

 

Nice one mate ,,,I used to love a bit off night ferreting,,great sport on the right spots

[FERRETBOY 680]

cheers guys. It was good to be out with just the pup. Shes so alert and steady when its just the two of us. Just might need to focus on her retrieve plus other commands. Not been doing so much because im taking both dogs out. Anyway just swopped my 4 rabbits for a months worth of dog meat in scraps. fantastic

Edited October 10, 2014 by REW

[TOMO 29,273]

That's a good deal for the dog food mate,,,,where , how did you get that,,,and what exactly did you get?...

 

Not very far from me that Micky

[FERRETBOY 680]

Clifton butchers Tomo. Its just the minced scraps. I just need a freezer so I can get more. I paid a tenner for about 10- 15 bags full of lamb or mutten scraps and chicken the other week. I had to sell to my mates for there dogs to get it used.

 

Just been for a walk near Loughborough, only seen a hare. Rubbish

[TOMO 29,273]

Sombody offered me a freezer last week for free,, a little under counter job,,,,and I'm fecked if I can remember who,,,just asked her indoors and she don't know,,,I'm now racking me brains,,,if I can remember I will ask them if you want it?

[FERRETBOY 680]

Yes mate I will happily take it thanks. Sent you pm btw.

[dogmad riley 1,351]

Yes mate I will happily take it thanks. Sent you pm btw.

I have one hear you can have if you can pick it up, little chest freezer had plenty of use but yours if you want it will require picking up though. Doncaster area.

[Flacko 1,756]

Good to see some dog lads helping each other out

[FERRETBOY 680]

Thanks for the offer dogmad. I doubt it would fit in my fiesta though. cheers

[TOMO 29,273]

Thanks for the offer dogmad. I doubt it would fit in my fiesta though. cheers

Drop your seats down soppy.....

 

Is it a small one dog mad,,,about the size of a washing machine?

[dogmad riley 1,351]

 

Thanks for the offer dogmad. I doubt it would fit in my fiesta though. cheers

Drop your seats down soppy.....

 

Is it a small one dog mad,,,about the size of a washing machine?

Yes pal it's one of them small chest freezers should fit in a small car

Edited October 13, 2014 by dogmad riley

[TOMO 29,273]

There you go rew,,,top offer there from dog mad,,,stick a tenner in you car and go fetch,,,

[FERRETBOY 680]

stick a tenner in your van and we go in that. Lets go to the dales first and pick it up on way back.