Wild rabbit problem

Jaggers_2

Lotus-eater wrote: »

I would love to go ferreting again! Shame you live miles away from me.


I remember once when I was young and out ferreting, a lorry driver stopping and came running over to us, shouting at us for ferreting in the summer, talking about babies and so on. We didn't know any different, no one had explained. That's not you is it? Would make you about 60.

Not me, but I reckon that makes you about my age (very very late teens - 38!)!! I tell you what, if there is land to be legally ferreted (has to be legal due to my job) I'll travel many a mile..... I reckon the MSE Ferreting Group is a goer! We could rehome Choille's friends rescues!!

Lotus-eater

I like ferrets, but I'm not having them again, I don't think my OH would agree to that tbh, although she does put up with an awful lot. Really

I've got chickens and would have the same problems as you, it's hard enough keeping blinkin reynard off them, let alone an escaped ferret

I am about that age yes, feel about 18.. A very very old and abused 18 year old though i think I've had more bits of metal stuck in me than a piercers test dummy!

I'm all for the ferreting group! Can't we call it the catching and killing rabbits group though? It has a nice ring to it.

Jaggers_2

ah! The escaped ferret. Always deny it's yours as you know full well it has slaughtered someones pet bunny or produced its own horror movie in a chicken coop.... 'But I tell you what mate, I'll look after the ferret till the owner comes forward...'

Sorry Cherrycake we seem to have deviated!

foreign_correspondent

I am in the same boat as you lot - the OH wouldn't let me keep ferrets now - he wouldn't like the smell!

I used to have a lovely albino ferret called Bo, I let my little brother borrow it to take it to the junior school pets day - unfortunately, he had a bit of a job on keeping hold of it as all the other kids had brought rabbits and hamsters - the ferret must have thought we had brought it to the 'all you can eat buffet' and had to leave early before it nabbed anything!

Lotus-eater

For one minute there FC, I thought you were an old GF of mine :rotfl: she didn't have a brother though.
She did have an awful lot of ferrets.

rhiwfield

Plants they dont seem to like locally:
Bracken
Bluebells
Cowslips
Rosebay willowherb
Hemp Agrimony
Nettles
Mint family

or maybe a better list
http://www.imustgarden.com/pages/rabbit_resistant.html

tryingtobegreen

Lotus Eater,
R U a stand up? if not then u should be.
Ur replys just crack me up.

Lotus-eater

I do stand up sometimes....

I was telling the truth about the gf and ferrets, wasn't even trying to be funny. :rotfl:

Jaggers_2

foreign_correspondent wrote: »

I used to have a lovely albino ferret called Bo, I let my little brother borrow it to take it to the junior school pets day - unfortunately, he had a bit of a job on keeping hold of it as all the other kids had brought rabbits and hamsters - the ferret must have thought we had brought it to the 'all you can eat buffet' and had to leave early before it nabbed anything!

Fantastic!! Thats the problem with owning ferrets. You develop a sixth sense for when the little s0ds are going to cause death or destruction somewhere!!

I did a demo with one of mine once. We had constructed a make believe warren out of old ceramic sewer pipes. All had gone well until i stooped to pick him up, and made the school boy error putting my hand in to fast. Not sure if it was the crowd, the heat or what but he was prickly little so and so that afternoon.

He clamped his teeth on my finger just behind the joint and really bit. Then started backing down the pipe wedging his paws in. He only stopped backing up when I was laid on the floor with my arm in the pipe to my shoulder. Tears were streaming down my face in front of 200 people! As I tried to work out how I was going to get my finger back the aforementioned lurcher decided that I was obviously playing around and started play fight with me..... I looked a real professional country man!!

Never again will I do a demo!!

Lotus-eater

Jaggers wrote: »

Fantastic!! Thats <stuff>Never again will I do a demo!!

:rotfl::rotfl:

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