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A Ratting
Who knows what a
Ratting is?
My first ratting was held down the road at a hunt member's house.
The guests were five, "go get em", Jack Russell terriers belonging to staff
hunt members.
We all met behind the horse barn at a group of long abandoned dog kennels.
The kennels were now home to lively host of rats and mice, who were
occasionally seen by the people doing their day to day jobs. Rat and mice
holes were everywhere.
This day, we positioned the terriers all around the kennels. We placed one
Jack Russell for each hole. The master of THIS hunt proceeded to get the
water hose and squirt it into one of the holes.
INSTANTLY! Excited Jack Russells were jumping, flying and digging into these
holes. Each dive brought mouths full of multiple prizes. It was too good to
be true! All the feed room bandits were being caught, right before our very
eyes! And they kept coming, on and on till finally the game was all
accounted for.
Proud owners with their treasured dogs and those onlookers posed for a group
picture with about 20 rodents of all size and shape proudly laid out and
displayed on a long wooden board.
How's that for a Sunday Afternoon Hunt?? This would be a day to
remember.
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