wild polecat.....HELP !!!!!!!!!!!

[rob190364 2,594]

I didn't notice how old the original messages were, gormless mare.....I wonder if that bloke has had the polecat in his shed for 18 months racking his brain what to do with it

 

And now, ferret girl has ended his predicament, she is a hero!

[rob190364 2,594]

She joined THL, put this post on and logged off and hasn't logged on since, bizarre!!

[barry lurcher 27]

think you said its a hob so get your best jill and breed from it if you want then release it job done its never gonna be tame if its an adult wild polecat best left in the wild if its a kit then go for it all the best

[Elmer Fudd 2011 39]

Polecat hunting was also a sport among the country squires of North Wales, Cheshire, Cumberland and Westmorland, where special packs of hounds were kept to hunt them down.

 

However these days in the UK polecats are protected under the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981. Certain methods of killing or taking Polecats are prohibited under the act, and it is an offence to set a trap for a polecat without obtaining a licence to do so.

 

 

i think u should hav read this before trapping a wild polecat!!! so you have posted that you have broken the law by trapping a wild polecat with out a licence! u should leave wild life alone if your not prepared to go to college and get the right qualification to work with dangerous wild animals, you would more than likely need a liscence and check from defra and i dought you will get one as you clearly have no idea what you are letting yourself in for, so release it and go to college then defra may consider you having one under the rules you breed wild to wild under a rehabilitation program back in to the wild.

so if you or anyone donot go to college then that makes us all thick do it YOU ARE A RIGHT LITTLE JOB WORTH ANT YOU and you wounder why you have not got any frends COLLEGE IS ONE BIG JOKE Edited June 26, 2011 by Elmer Fudd 2011

[ferretertom 7]

I have had a few european polecats ive found when they are first generation or second generation wild they arent no good i have two which have been handled from kits and are just as tame as ferrets but the ones i had what where bred off a wild parent where skitish couldnt be handled,and wouldnt come out in daylight.

Another thing is they wont eat the dry food 8 times out of ten.

You may be able to put a hob over a ferret jill providing you handle the kits very early on put no way would i breed a wild jill.

Edited June 26, 2011 by ferretertom

[The one 8,483]

I have had a few european polecats ive found when they are first generation or second generation wild they arent no good i have two which have been handled from kits and are just as tame as ferrets but the ones i had what where bred off a wild parent where skitish couldnt be handled,and wouldnt come out in daylight.

Another thing is they wont eat the dry food 8 times out of ten.

You may be able to put a hob over a ferret jill providing you handle the kits very early on put no way would i breed a wild jill.

 

 

 

Exactly so why bother when there's good working ferrets out there ?

[canis lupus 1]

Nice first post Ferret girl raising a post from January the 11th still you got a good bite or two

 

 

Jan 11th. . . . . LAST YEAR!

 

 

Kay - aye for some reason folk think a 6 month diploma in animal fiddling makes you the next James Heriot.

 

 

Well i had a quick shufty online about polecats & trapping & according to the shooting times , a trapped polecat can be either shot of kept

 

 

I thought they were still protected, so had to be let go if trapped.

 

I exspect most found in traps are shot, why would anyone want to keep a wild animal for work.

[Ideation 8,216]

Just to let you all know, he did not keep it, or try to breed it into his ferrets, or try to work it, i think it was just released

[Kay 3,709]

Nice first post Ferret girl raising a post from January the 11th still you got a good bite or two

 

 

Jan 11th. . . . . LAST YEAR!

 

 

Kay - aye for some reason folk think a 6 month diploma in animal fiddling makes you the next James Heriot.

 

 

Well i had a quick shufty online about polecats & trapping & according to the shooting times , a trapped polecat can be either shot of kept

 

 

I thought they were still protected, so had to be let go if trapped.

 

I exspect most found in traps are shot, why would anyone want to keep a wild animal for work.

 

This was the question asked & answered

 

 

I read that it is unlawful to deliberately catch, kill or take wild polecats. I am confused as I think the 1981 Wildlife & Countryside Act provides limited protection for polecats in Schedule 6? Please can you clarify this?

 

A:

The polecat is listed in schedule 6 of the 1981 Wildlife & Countryside Act, and Schedule 3 of the 1994 Conservation Regulations.

 

Under these laws, certain methods of taking wild polecats are prohibited.

 

These Acts prohibit the deliberate or intentional setting of traps, snares and so on for polecats without a licence. Where traps are set for other (pest) species, the 1981 Wildlife & Countryside Act requires that reasonable precautions to prevent injury thereby to any wild animals included in Schedule 6. Regulation 41 of the 1994 Conservation Regulations prohibits the use of traps that are non-selective according to their principle or conditions of use for taking or killing of protected animals, including the polecat.

 

In addition, the 1995 Spring Traps Approval Order specifically excludes the use of spring traps for the capture of any species listed in Schedules 5 and 6 of the 1994 Wildlife & Countryside Act.

 

It is legal to shoot polecats with appropriate firearms, and there appears to be no lawful reason why polecats (harmed or otherwise) caught in traps cannot be shot or kept in captivity. All in all, a confusing state of affairs.

[MickyB 327]

Nice first post Ferret girl raising a post from January the 11th still you got a good bite or two

 

 

Jan 11th. . . . . LAST YEAR!

 

 

Kay - aye for some reason folk think a 6 month diploma in animal fiddling makes you the next James Heriot.

 

 

Well i had a quick shufty online about polecats & trapping & according to the shooting times , a trapped polecat can be either shot of kept

 

 

I thought they were still protected, so had to be let go if trapped.

 

I exspect most found in traps are shot, why would anyone want to keep a wild animal for work.

 

This was the question asked & answered

 

 

I read that it is unlawful to deliberately catch, kill or take wild polecats. I am confused as I think the 1981 Wildlife & Countryside Act provides limited protection for polecats in Schedule 6? Please can you clarify this?

 

A:

The polecat is listed in schedule 6 of the 1981 Wildlife & Countryside Act, and Schedule 3 of the 1994 Conservation Regulations.

 

Under these laws, certain methods of taking wild polecats are prohibited.

 

These Acts prohibit the deliberate or intentional setting of traps, snares and so on for polecats without a licence. Where traps are set for other (pest) species, the 1981 Wildlife & Countryside Act requires that reasonable precautions to prevent injury thereby to any wild animals included in Schedule 6. Regulation 41 of the 1994 Conservation Regulations prohibits the use of traps that are non-selective according to their principle or conditions of use for taking or killing of protected animals, including the polecat.

 

In addition, the 1995 Spring Traps Approval Order specifically excludes the use of spring traps for the capture of any species listed in Schedules 5 and 6 of the 1994 Wildlife & Countryside Act.

 

It is legal to shoot polecats with appropriate firearms, and there appears to be no lawful reason why polecats (harmed or otherwise) caught in traps cannot be shot or kept in captivity. All in all, a confusing state of affairs.

thats the law though its never straight forward, and i think it might differ between regions. that ferretgirl is obviousely retarded, stupid, mongy what ever you want to call it

Edited June 26, 2011 by MickyB