CHAMPION RABBITER ISSUES CHALLENGE.
LONDON, March 19. Isaac Gough, a Gloucestershire man, and Britain’s champion rabbiter, has issued a world challenge, taken up by H. Collington, a Leicestershire farm worker, that after any piece of ground has been gone over with nets for three nights, Gough will go over it again and trap 100 per cent .additional rabbits. Gough told the London University Animal Welfare Society that he had been rabbiting 37 years. He and his two sons caught 52.343 rabbits since August, including 1500 in 10 days, and 534 in a single night. They average 75 a night on the year's results. Gough works from 1(5 to IS hours, visiting his traps half a dozen times a night. He says, however, that he would willingly scrap his £75 worth of traps, which admittedly are cruel, in favour of more humane ones, which, however, have not yet been invented.
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Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 77, 31 March 1931, Page 1
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