The young ferret Leto finds rabbit holes too exciting, but gets reminded why she’s there.
I don’t expect too much from a young ferret during its first year of working. Her true colours will show next season. A ferrets working prime will be years three and four, when experience and physical ability are balanced. I’m still using her beside Athena, the darker six year old jill, to set a good example. I'd like Brook and Leto to settle their differences before next winter as they would make a great team. If that works out, Athena will only be used occasionally, for easy warrens, for her own enjoyment, if anything. I can sense her tiring on these longer outings now.
I'm not exactly sure how the first rabbit escaped. Unfortunately no camera had a perfect angle on it. I suspect the pole slipped out of the hard ground for a moment which allowed the rabbit to slip under. This hill is extremely rocky, which makes it hard to long net effectively.
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These rabbits are collected for food, for my ferrets and people. This is a free range meat, that has lived a free life. These rabbits will be controlled even without me. By taking them myself, the meat is used. Ferreting is an environmentally friendly method of rabbit control.
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The video is edited in a self explanatory way for all languages to understand. People under the age of 18 also practise ferreting and I aim to set a mature example. Contact between the animals is brief and is not the focus of the video. Rabbit dispatches are not shown. No blood or gore is present.