Bog Myrtle & Peat

Life and Work in Galloway


Ferrets

  • Ferrets 2012

    Just worth recording that today was the official opening of the ferreting season for my four little terrorists. It hasn’t been a great year for rabbits in my usual haunts this year, so I’m going at it with a sedate pace and trying to make the little I have last as long as possible. Within Continue reading

  • Combat

    July is a pretty dull month if you’re a ferret. Rabbits are all breeding, the grass is too long and work is out of the question. It’s just a matter of passing the time until the first frost, so my selection of four little bailiffs have been lying idle since the first week in March. Continue reading

  • Training Day

    With all the chaos and confusion caused by taking on a new puppy, it’s been easy to lose track of the seasons. It’s now time for ferreting, and my four savage cylinders are raring to get started. The little jills have never worked before, so today formed a basic introduction to the world of rabbits Continue reading

  • Shredder and the Shaving Foam Cap

    Just thought it was worth posting this picture of one of my two new ferret kits playing with the cap from a can of shaving foam. She was dumped in the bath to amuse herself while I dealt with the pheasant chicks which are settling in to their new home in my sitting room, and Continue reading

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Shout on, Morgan. You’ll be nothing tomorrow

Swn y galon fach yn torri, 1952

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