An Afternoon With The Ferrets

Hi, my name is Benjy S**R and I live in North Yorkshire . I started ferreting three weeks ago, and now I never want to stop. I got into ferreting when one day I went my grans and found out her neighbours had ferrets. I soon got some, and dad and myself soon started training them then we waited for the season to start!

It was a Saturday afternoon, straight after lunch. Jamie (my brother), Dad, and I started to get the equipment ready. We needed the nets, graft, game bag, collars, liner and of course the ferrets. We set off up the field track and soon came to the field that we were going to ferret. Two days previously, the owner of the field had given us permission to hunt the rabbits there so we were ready to set up. We then set up the nets along the rabbit warren and put the one of the ferrets down. Nothing happened for a couple of minutes, until a rabbit appeared from nowhere! But we had put all the nets down! Now if that was unusual what happened next was strange. The rabbit bolted into a hole with a net on, my first rabbit! When we got home I put the ferrets in their cage, dad gutted the rabbit. As I write this we are all about to tuck into bunny burgers.

The above article was submitted to the NFR by a young man, I have chosen not to correct grammar or punctuation as it is perfect as it is and reminds us

OF OUR FIRST TRIP