My new purse nets are losing rabbits!
Ive been ferreting for years, but never had this problem of a rabbit hitting a net and not getting caught. Whats gone wrong?
Ferreting
EDWARD COOK
This is an easy one
in fact Id hazard a guess right now and say the nets youve just bought are not the same size as your earlier ones theyre smaller.
Too many net makers and ferreters wrongly think that just because a net covers a hole it will catch the burrows occupants.
Thats all well and good but were not out to catch the hole, were after a rabbit and these tend to come in one size, unlike their front, side or back doors!
I tend to use 3ft 6in nets that are 18 x 2in meshes wide, a size that has plenty of rabbit catching bag to it.
Escapees are few and far between. The trouble is some net makers and ferreters are a tight bunch and tend to opt for cheapness over effectivness, which is a strange way of looking at things when you consider that every time a rabbit escapes thats a £1 coin running away!
Put another way
would you walk down the street with a pocketful of coins knowing there was a hole in the lining simply because you are too tight to by some thread to fix it?
My advice is either learn how to make your own, or get your nets from an expert like Mick Mansbridge (02380 447662) – he’s one of the few people about these days who knows what he’s talking about, and makes decent nets that really do work well.
