Pole Cat in my trap?

[Guest kevsterjw]

I set up a few live catch traps in a filed and as well as rabbits I went down on friday and there was this thing screaming, hissing, spitting and pi$$ing through the cage at me. It looked like a pole cat. Do you get them in the is country?

 

 

looked exactlt like this

 

are polecats adn ferrets the same thing as I just found this pic below of a ferret an it looks like the same thing.

 

 

??

[bullsmilk 2]

BASICLY MATE YES THEY ARE.....there a domesticated european polcat

[Guest JOEB]

Yes.............seen a couple this year.

JOEB

[Guest Ditch_Shitter]

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There's responsible talk, BM .....

 

 

Kev; We most certainly Do have Polecats (Mustela putorus) native to Britain. They're a highly protected animal. You need to let them go. Just like an Otter.

 

Traditionally thought to be only hanging on in 'The Wilds of Wales', we now find the genuine article in Hampshire! So, where ever you are; Yep. Perfectly feasable.

 

Of course, there are plenty of escaped / abandoned 'polecat (coloured) ferrets out there too. But I was looking for exactly what you described there; A maniac in that trap. No matter how feral a ferret's gone, they seldom if ever reach the stage of reacting quite so violently to man as a true, wild Polecat will.

 

I'd say you've met the Real Deal, mate. Congratulations! It's a rare privilage

 

I do hope you acted responsibly?

[Guest kevsterjw]

yeah I thought it was goning to have me , so i pulled the bolt out of the back door and pushed the cage over with a big stick and stood back!

 

luckily it just flew off away into the bush.

[Clipper 207]

do the domesticated polecat ferrets , surive long in wild if escaped or released???????????

[hound 1]

kevsterjw there are quite alot of polecats/ferrets living wild round you if you go up my the pigs at blewbury you often seeing them flat on the roads

[amd50 0]

Just a question mate, where you setting traps to catch rabbits, if so what bait did you use that would attract a polecat, just wondering, not questioning your post.

[bullsmilk 2]

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lol tel you what i prefer seeing a stoat(not so very often)TO SEEING A WILD POLIE theve got more character lol..they may be verm but you got to admire them

[Guest kevsterjw]

Just a question mate, where you setting traps to catch rabbits, if so what bait did you use that would attract a polecat, just wondering, not questioning your post.

 

 

didn't use any bait just covered the trap with scrub and bush to make it appear as a tunnel. I guess the polecat was just inquisitive.

[Phil Lloyd 10,738]

Edited October 14, 2006 by CHALKWARREN

[Guest Ditch_Shitter]

didn't use any bait just covered the trap with scrub and bush to make it appear as a tunnel.

 

 

Actually, mate, that is the standard practice for catching musti's! Show 'em a tunnel and they just Have To investigate!

 

 

Chalks; Amazing, isn't it? When we were lads, the recieved scientific knowledge was that Polecats were hanging on by the skin of their sharp little teeth in only the remotest parts of North Wales and so forth. Now they're nothing to write home about in bloody Hampshire! Funny. I personally never noticed reports of the buggers creeping down across the country. They just suddenly seem to have appeared, well established, up and down the land

 

Did you ever get wind of what was going on there? Maybe it's just because I was out of the loop for a bit? Or do ye think the 'Conservationists' breeding them up in captivity had a hand in it? My late friend, Peter O' Connor of Luton was breeding them ..... :whistle:

[mel b 2,486]

we've got quite a few of them around the west midlands , i see them dead on the roads and now and again i see them on a couple of my shoots , they're a bit lively to say the least

[targa 5]

On the first walk I did with my old terrier (14 years ago) , he was 5 months old.

we walked next to a hedge, and I saw something move, a 15 yards further between the brambles. On that same moment the dog start sniffing around, so I let him go, and he went straight to that brambles. As I thought it where rabbits, the dog jumped into the brambles, and on that moment he starts yelling and baying It was a polecat, hanging around the dog's neck like a shawl! After a lot of yelling and shaking the polecat lost his bite, and then it was the little feckers turn he grabbed the beast again and starts shaking til the inner of the polecat where flying everywhere. That was his first prey, and my first meeting with a polecat

[muppet 0]

I come from South Wales and have had a few experiences with these feisty little swines,had a request to find out what had taken nearly 150 old english game chickens over a winter,the bloke had em running loose and breeding like wild pheasants and the numbers slowly dwindled until he had 9 left.Only evidence he could give me was some strange tracks he,d seen in the snow an he hadn,t a clue what they were from.Anyway set a live cage trap with a freshly killed woodie in it and turns up next morning full of a hissing spitting evil ball of black fur stinking and rancid as hell,right evil swine he was a large polecat hob.Set another trap the following night and buggered if i didn,t catch another the dead twin of the first.

I spoke to an aquaintance in a Zoo who has experience of em and he advised me to let em go in a large block of forestry as they love to eat grey squirrels so the forestry commission likes having them around.Thats what i did,dumped em off 20 miles away up in the mountains and god help the squirrel population.

Another case not far from the first i slipped my alsation ,deerhound,greyhound lurcher on a fox down the lamp about 60 yards away and she pulled up halfway howling like all the demons of hell had her.When i got to her she was trying to rip this evil little shit from where he had locked onto her under her chest.Man she wa a powerfull bitch but when she got him off and shook hell out of him she couldn,t kill him and got bit all around the face for her trouble until i could get hold of her.He even dived at me when i caught the dog up and stood his ground till i backed off a ways before he buggered off into the night.