Good day finnishes with a bad ending

[Guest Rod&dog]

Had a short walk out for an hour or so this afternoon,,Concentrated on this large warren,, we bolted and missed and caught a few ,, we got a dig,, 3 foot roughly,,Got ferret and rabbit out,,Dispatched rabbit,, And looked for my other ferret using the MK3,, It was still moving around but slowly and not showing,, But as my mate went to some food from the bag it had shown from a mouth of a burry,,But it did not look very healthy,,Both its eyes had came out and its jaw was broken and its face not very nice,,So i did the correct thing and dispatched it thier and then,,Which is a shame beacuse it was one of my best workers and now im down to one ferret for the rest of the season.

 

I left the jill to rest in a whole i dug in the warren its bolted many rabbits from in the three years of its life, RIP enda.

Edited November 23, 2008 by Rod&dog

[csme55ex 2]

Had a short walk out for an hour or so this afternoon,,Concentrated on this large warren,, we bolted and missed and caught a few ,, we got a dig,, 3 foot roughly,,Got ferret and rabbit out,,Dispatched rabbit,, And looked for my other ferret using the MK3,, It was still moving around but slowly and not showing,, But as my mate went to some food from the bag it had shown from a mouth of a burry,,But it did not look very healthy,,Both its eyes had came out and its jaw was broken and its face not very nice,,So i did the correct thing and dispatched it thier and then,,Which is a shame beacuse it was one of my best workers and now im down to one ferret for the rest of the season.

 

I left the jill to rest in a whole i dug in the warren its bolted many rabbits from in the three years of its life, RIP enda.

sorry to hear about your ferret mate .. how do you think it happened a rabbit run in to it or kicked it or sumink

[Fat-Ferret 857]

Thats bad...what happened it?

[Brimmer 220]

Shame for the critter, seen the eye's popped out before on the jills. Must have taken a huge uppercut from the legs of the bunny.

A bunny can smack a ferret very hard with the hind legs, people think i'm daft when I only use hobs for work, seeing me digging all the time. It's for a reason, most jills are not up to shifting everything, only the best can stand up to a beating off something 4 times it's own weight.

Seen jills on fire for a while untill they get this, then switch off in an instant.

You can feel the slams from underground sometimes. Poor little bugger.

[stealthy1 3,964]

Bad when you lose a member of your team.

[gnipper 6,543]

Sounds like she kopped the spade as you broke through to her to me, i've never seen a rabbit do damage like that, scratches maybe but nowt that bad.

[Guest Rod&dog]

Bad when you lose a member of your team.

Yep now im going to have to work a single ferret,, Unless i can get hold of a few more,, But i bred the one i lost from a good jill and a good hob,, from someone on here. Sadly i sold the jills mother last summer or i would get a another out of her.

[andy s410c 61]

Well it must have been some wallop off a rabbit to do that to a fert, seen a few small scratches in my time but never heard of anything like that before.Sorry for your loss......

[btehan 0]

Had a short walk out for an hour or so this afternoon,,Concentrated on this large warren,, we bolted and missed and caught a few ,, we got a dig,, 3 foot roughly,,Got ferret and rabbit out,,Dispatched rabbit,, And looked for my other ferret using the MK3,, It was still moving around but slowly and not showing,, But as my mate went to some food from the bag it had shown from a mouth of a burry,,But it did not look very healthy,,Both its eyes had came out and its jaw was broken and its face not very nice,,So i did the correct thing and dispatched it thier and then,,Which is a shame beacuse it was one of my best workers and now im down to one ferret for the rest of the season.

 

I left the jill to rest in a whole i dug in the warren its bolted many rabbits from in the three years of its life, RIP enda.

sorry to hear about your ferret mate .. how do you think it happened a rabbit run in to it or kicked it or sumink

Never heard of injuries from a rabbit like that,sounds like a spade job to me. :(

[Guest Rod&dog]

Had a short walk out for an hour or so this afternoon,,Concentrated on this large warren,, we bolted and missed and caught a few ,, we got a dig,, 3 foot roughly,,Got ferret and rabbit out,,Dispatched rabbit,, And looked for my other ferret using the MK3,, It was still moving around but slowly and not showing,, But as my mate went to some food from the bag it had shown from a mouth of a burry,,But it did not look very healthy,,Both its eyes had came out and its jaw was broken and its face not very nice,,So i did the correct thing and dispatched it thier and then,,Which is a shame beacuse it was one of my best workers and now im down to one ferret for the rest of the season.

 

I left the jill to rest in a whole i dug in the warren its bolted many rabbits from in the three years of its life, RIP enda.

sorry to hear about your ferret mate .. how do you think it happened a rabbit run in to it or kicked it or sumink

Never heard of injuries from a rabbit like that,sounds like a spade job to me. :(

That ferret was on the other side of a LARGE warren when we broke through to my other jill,,We picked him up over there and he did not move for awhile then it was slowe movement untill it found its way out.

[The one 8,511]

sad news mate ,rabbits can give a good kick

[TOMO 26,813]

could have been another animal underground, fox most likly or badger, mink.

[will.f11 24]

it could of met a rat or stoat or something below ground, RIP enda

[Guest ferret feller]

rat or stoat iv seen bolt quicker then rabbits ime unless it was a doe rat with babies or stoat jill with babies mabey?? id put it down to a buck rabbit myself nasty loss anyway mate ill talk to you tonight about it....

[JPTfellterrier 65]

sorry to hear of your loss