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Camile · Posted: Sun Feb 15, 2009 10:19 pm Post subject: Ferreting

Good evening,

For those of you that never visits Greenwellies, check out this post from Quixote:
http://greenwelliesbalertwine.myf...org/about7229.html&highlight=

it's a brilliant article on ferreting ..

anyone here doing it ? it's fascinating to me ..

now that's hunting !

Camile

phil · Posted: Mon Feb 16, 2009 12:21 pm Post subject:

This is what i would call hunting

http://overthegate.myfreeforum.or...a117880.php&highlight=#117880

Camile · Posted: Mon Feb 16, 2009 12:38 pm Post subject:

Thanks for that Phil ...

they are amazing pictures ..

I knew you were right by saying that terriers were the best for rats .. but that really shows it .

Now you have comforted me even more to get a terrier .. be it for rat or fox ..

that's a loyal companion put to good use,

Camile

phil · Posted: Mon Feb 16, 2009 1:22 pm Post subject:

The small smooth coated red and white dogs are Plummer terriers,great all round workers but they were bred for ratting.

phil · Posted: Mon Feb 16, 2009 1:24 pm Post subject:

Imaging how much corn them buggers were eating?

squirrel01 · Joined: 14 Dec 2006 Posts: 90 Location: co. roscommon

great pics, never went ratting but did alot of ferreting in the uk, would love to start it up again, can't beat it on a crispy winter sunday.....

phil · Posted: Mon Feb 16, 2009 9:49 pm Post subject:

Hello Squirrel.
Do you have many rabbits where you are.

squirrel01 · Joined: 14 Dec 2006 Posts: 90 Location: co. roscommon

some on the higher ground but not near the house, apart from the one in the hutch Laughing

Camile · Posted: Thu Feb 19, 2009 8:09 pm Post subject:

phil · Posted: Thu Feb 19, 2009 8:22 pm Post subject:

Camile
The way i read it. they killed 80 rats the day before the dogs turned up.
The dogs killed a lot of rats under the sheds that they couldn't get at so i would reckon its the best part of a thousand.