Ferrets Bite

[Guest rodsmith]

I was just wondering the best method of getting a ferret to let go once it is latched on.

I have 2 young hobs at the moment and they are always handled and going to be good workers they only give a playful nip when playing about and get a little to excited. But obiously one day there will be a time when they might not want to let go. I ve heard scruffing them will make them let go it said to relax them is this correct. Any other ideas ideas

Squezze it's back foot firmly, but not to hard as to damage it. If you are a smoker, blow smoke in it's face, that works aswell.

 

 

worked wonders on roy castle,passive smoking.. what if the man smokes roll ups like me,id struggle to roll 1 with it attatched to my finger.

[bullx 12]

laughing my head off here about putting his finger up its arse,are you sure it was his finger he stuck up his arse

[Guest rodsmith]

laughing my head off here about putting his finger up its arse,are you sure it was his finger he stuck up his arse

 

 

i reckon he really "felched it!"

[watchman 256]

blow on its nose, it really works have done it

[will 16]

if you handle them every day there souldent be a time when thay bite you an old man told me when the ferret bites dont panick stay calm leave his feet go onto the floor and stoke him head to tail it calmes them down and it does work its a bit hard to stay calm when you feel its teeth grinding your finger bone ( my fault ate a choclate browni )

[max abell 196]

Touch wood never had one latch on befour

some good coments on how to make them let go

NOT SO SURE ABOUT STICKING MY FINGER UP ITS ARSE THOUGH

[bedrock 16]

laughing my head off here about putting his finger up its arse,are you sure it was his finger he stuck up his arse

 

 

i reckon he really "felched it!"

 

Rod your obsessed about fleching :sick:

[Leeview 791]

if you handle them every day there souldent be a time when thay bite you an old man told me when the ferret bites dont panick stay calm leave his feet go onto the floor and stoke him head to tail it calmes them down and it does work its a bit hard to stay calm when you feel its teeth grinding your finger bone ( my fault ate a choclate browni )

Most sensible reply so far

Y.I.S Leeview

[Ferret Breeder 0]

Bring the ferret close to your mouth and make a loud sharp TISSSSSHHHH or CHISSSSH noise in its face. The type of noise that they make at each other when annoyed so they know to back off.

 

I find it works very well if you start when they are young and just playing, as soon as they go to latch on even when playing, make the 'tish' noise. Keep repeating. It doesn't take long.

 

The only time it deffinately doesn't work is if you have a deaf ferret!!

 

Try it, it might work.

[Kay 3,709]

Bring the ferret close to your mouth and make a loud sharp TISSSSSHHHH or CHISSSSH noise in its face. The type of noise that they make at each other when annoyed so they know to back off.

 

I find it works very well if you start when they are young and just playing, as soon as they go to latch on even when playing, make the 'tish' noise. Keep repeating. It doesn't take long.

 

The only time it deffinately doesn't work is if you have a deaf ferret!!

 

Try it, it might work.

 

My face is the last place i would put an aggitated ferret anywhere near

[Ferret Breeder 0]

I knew someone was going to say that and it is a valid initial reaction...however...

 

Looking at this locically the little critter has to let go of your finger first at which point it falls due to gravity.

 

When it is dangling from your finger it is a physical impossibility that it can then somehow levitate to then re-attach onto your face so I understand your concerns but I've yet to meet a floating ferret.

 

Hope that helps.

 

Best wishes

 

Ann

[Kay 3,709]

I knew someone was going to say that and it is a valid initial reaction...however...

 

Looking at this locically the little critter has to let go of your finger first at which point it falls due to gravity.

 

When it is dangling from your finger it is a physical impossibility that it can then somehow levitate to then re-attach onto your face so I understand your concerns but I've yet to meet a floating ferret.

 

Hope that helps.

 

Best wishes

 

Ann

 

but hanging on to the ferret with the free hand would i would naturally support the ferret with my other hand not let it dangle there

[Ferret Breeder 0]

Agreed so yes, so lets combine these thoughts.

 

Holding it, but at the same time gently pulling in the opposite direction to your face make a sharp SHIIISSHH noise.

 

Holding little tinker means it therefore doesn't just plummet to the ground when it lets go.

 

Sods law is that they then bend round and re-attatch to the hand you are holding them in. lol. This is quite likely if as you say if it is a bit miffed, which it may well be for biting in the first place. Scruff of neck perhaps?

 

Good luck to all those who have the unfornunate experience that of one similar to Richard Whitely! Oh will people ever let ferret owners forget that?

[jay_h 2]

i never said i had done this to a ferret but just a guy told he had, no need for things like idiots writing pri k under my posts now is there?

and i also think that if an animal bites then it is not worth keeping and should be killed.

 

jay.

[stubby 175]

i also think that if an animal bites then it is not worth keeping and should be killed.

 

so, you want to use it for ferreting, which may involve it biting a rabbit, but if it bites YOU, it should be killed , surely, training/handling a kitt/ferret is the only way of teaching it what to bite, or not too,so the blame for a biting ferret would fall on YOU, and your failure to socialise the ferret, rather than the ferret itself