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Posted by Pat Lavin on
Friday, 20th of April 2012 • Full article
I had extended my ferreting this year by a couple of weeks due to the days I had lost with the weather. All my permission is situated on very hilly ground so when I received a phone call from Darren, a shooting colleague who has permission to control rabbits on an equestrian centre on Romney Marsh, I jumped at the chance.
Posted by Steve McGonigal on
Friday, 20th of April 2012 • Full article
I HAVE often read about ferreting by moonlight but nobody I know has ever experienced it themselves. The weather has really hit the hunting fraternity hard this past season and it felt like the snow and ice were here a lifetime. When it finally cleared we all breathed a sigh of relief at the thought of getting back to doing what we love.
Posted by Penny Taylor on
Friday, 3rd of February 2012 • Full article
WE'RE still playing catch-up with the ferreting after losing nearly a month due to the snow, and I felt quite guilty when I looked at a certain piece of land, sown early with barley but now resembling a well-used football pitch. In other words, barely a green blade in sight for nearly 100 metres out into the field.
Posted by Mervyn Jones on
Monday, 24th of October 2011 • Full article
AT last the boys could go ferreting and we were heading off to a farm close to my home for a day catching rabbits. I’d had a brief foray a few days before and had caught ten rabbits in three hours before I checked the next couple of warrens which looked well occupied. We should be in for a special day.
Posted by Penny Taylor on
Monday, 24th of October 2011 • Full article
WE were asked to sort out some rabbits over the weekend in country where the habitat favours the indigenous residents, not the hunter! When you see nice large fields surrounded by bramble-filled woods your heart tends to sink a little, as the rabbits are always well spread out beneath the brambles.
Posted by Derek Davidson on
Thursday, 23rd of June 2011 • Full article
EARLY on a Saturday morning some time ago my friend Stuart phoned because he was worried. He had left early for a walk with his dogs over the fields as he often does and ten minutes before returning home the little tykes had put their noses to the ground and took off, yelping as they went.
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