Rabbiting with ferrets
It’s a cool but sunny Sunday morning when Fiona and I meet Shauna and Adrian Pickin at a property in one of the semi-rural outer suburbs of Hobart. This is an estate well known to the Pickins and one of many that they regularly visit on their ferreting outings.
After greeting the owners, we walk through the paddock until we find a warren that looks active. Shauna sets a big white box down on the ground and two little grey-pink noses poke through the air holes as the ferrets sniff out their new surroundings.
The Pickins bill themselves as natural vertebrate pest controllers. They advertise their services as rabbit exterminators, but they also approach the owners of properties that they can
