Today is the first day of the hunting season here in Lanzarote and I was woken at 7.00 a.m. with the first gunshots, which have continued to reverberate round this valley all day long!!!
Here we are allowed to hunt every Sunday, one week with guns and the following week with dogs and ferrets!
Made me wonder what the traditions are on the peninsula with regard to hunting?
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What jer means (I think), and I am also curious, is if they are hunting one week with guns, and the other dogs and ferrets, how do they catch the prey (when they don't have guns)? Or to they just tease them?
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Posts: 652 | Location: Mostly from Miami, FL. - Born in San Remo, Italy | Registered: 30 April 2004
I have a dog, Una, and two ferrets, Cootie and Sid Vicious. They endlessly stalk one another, but so far the local rabbits are nonplussed. Ferrets, with sufficient aim, could kill with their smell alone. (mine are de-scented, but still kinda funky if not bathed often.)
I think dog/ferret hunting is done thus: the hunter finds where underground critters have their burrows, and he closes up all the entrances but one. He sends the ferrets into the tunnel to flush out the game. (ferrets can get into any opening, it's like they have no bones in their bodies. And they are vicious hunters.) So the frightened animals run away from the ferrets and jump out of their dens into the jaws of the waiting dogs. In London they used to have ferrets and terriers on the municipal staff to help keep down the rat populations. Circle of Life and all that. Now... what is the Spanish word for "Ferret?" Reb.
Posts: 385 | Location: a pueblo in Palencia, via Pittsburgh USA | Registered: 15 February 2003
Hunting in Spain. Very popular sport. Especially rabbit. :s: You need a licence to kill and you get this from the Spanish Hunting Federation http://www.fedecaza.com and see this for getting a licence http://www.telelicencia.com/ Each region will have it's own rules about what you can hunt and what you can't, also the approved dates for each year. Approach the local 'Environment Ministry' people or get invited to a shoot.
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