Sounds a bit OTT - Were they for single or multiple use ?
What does OTT mean? Off theme or over the top?
They were for the bed, and it wasn't an uncommon practice .. well, I knew of other people, and not just in our admittedly eccentric-seeming family, who did it. Welsh hills are covered in sphagnum. It was probably as much a poor or just rural thing as it was a Welsh thing, and likely not at all bushcraft/tradition. He/we just liked it.
Funny places old mining towns. They are urban and industrial, but you only have to walk halfway up a hill to find yourself back in farmed or uncultivated countryside. Consequently, lots of people I knew then in the 70s/80s regarded themselves as urban but owned ferrets. And our extended family was a mixture of farm labourers, technical types and office workers. In general, people had a pretty sharp and rather everyday sense of the countryside and its use.
Which rambling brings me to my point to the OP ... get a ferret. Smelly things to keep and abstractly violent, but if you like rabbit, get some nets ... usual business about getting permission obviously applies.
