Full team on snow patrol

It was a glorious morning to be outside. The low winter sun glinted on land decorated with a light dusting of snow. Sheep sheltered against the stone walls, but rabbits abounded. It not only looked cold, it was bitterly cold. All we needed to make the perfect Christmas card was a robin perched on a spade.

Archetypal ferreting weather this may be, but we still had the small yet important job of persuading the local rabbits to swap their warm and cosy warrens for the biting wind and snow-covered land of the north.

“Tawny’s body has changed to give the extra oomph to accelerate