whippets first real ratting trip

[Chickens4ever05 22]

well tonight was fantastic. I was in the pub last night and a chicken farmer I know well said he had a few rats in a poultry shed that he wanted rid of before he refilled the cabin so of course I have obliged.

 

Tod has only ever seen odd rats and never had a great deal of confidence an Young Dodger has never seen one so we were up for a challange.

 

I went round with 1 ferret and my 2 whippets, as we walked in the cabin which housed 6000 birds up until last night we could see there were a few milling about, both dogs spoted one and give a half harted chase and it got away, the farmer said 'they wont catch out' and left us for 5 mins whilst he dealt with something else, on his return we had 10 in a pile. he was quite pleased and stayed for the rest of the action.

 

Dodger was on fire at first and then Tod picked his game up, the rats where just coming out and we had 28 before I put the ferret down.

 

I then decided we would give lilly a run down and about 8 bolted at once.

 

this was a real test for the dogs, they have got a few war wounds to show for it. they certainly had some hart with the final bag being 62 in about 1 hour and 15mins all taken by 2 novis whippets ;D dam chuffed with them, and so was the farmer

 

round 2 tomorrow and then round 3 saturday.

 

heres a few pics, sorry no action shots as we were struggling with low light to get it to focus

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tom

[matmorgan 49]

supurb.love ratting.havent bin 4 years.used to get alot on me dads farm.when i was a lad we had a russel a mongrel terrier two dobermans and a collie.the russel bitch was the don but the doberman were very close behind.the youngest doberman was the runt off the litter.she could run for england,so well built you would think she had greyhound in her makeup.them were the days.good luck with round two and three.atb.mat.

[foxlamper80 28]

weldone lad to nice looking dogs you have there

[Stuart O Connor 1]

Nice

[sibaldib 6]

Nice write up and good pictures.

 

Certainly impressed the farmer.

 

Cheers

 

Sib

[decky 79]

well done mate f*****g hate rats

[whippetwoman 0]

What great fun you must of had, two lovely looking dogs. Must find somewhere where I can take mine ratting.

[goldfinch2007 2,332]

good bit of sport,let us know how you get on.good post

[Hedge_hunter27 18]

The dogs seem to have got the knack of it , good haul , exactly what you want the farmer to see to secure future visits, well done .

[Chickens4ever05 22]

heres the jill got her cleaned up she was really game for them and evem killed a little one that she chased

 

 

thanks for the replys

 

Tom

 

Terriermen would have been proud of my dogs tonight

[Finn. 0]

Another bloody brilliant post (saw the second trip post first). Could read these all day long.

 

Keep em coming.

 

Atb, Finn.

[Jamie93 57]

Nice one mate. Lovely looking dogs you have there.

Happy Hunting Jamie93

[mexlad 189]

well done mate good luck with rounds 2 and 3

[parkstone 24]

nice 1 mate

[dodger 2,765]

Great score that mate, must have been an action packed hour that, dogs an ferets done you proud.