What is a ferreter?

Answer 1

FERRETING - For hundreds of years the main use of ferrets was for hunting rabbits, called ferreting. Because of their long, lean build and natural instinct for digging and burrowing, they are very well equipped for getting down holes and chasing rabbits or other rodents out of their nests. They are still used for hunting in some countries, in the United Kingdom, Scotland and Australia, where rabbits are a plague species and, despite the availability of of modern technology, the combination of a few nets and a ferret or two remains very effective. In Portugal and in the U S, ferreting has been made illegal.