had a visitor last night

[polecat84 1]

well the security light kept coming on last night and my two hobs were going mad,had a look out side and there was a big albino hob trying to get at my two,any way it very quickly ran off and hid under the shed but i managed to catch it with my landing net,it seems pretty wild and is coverd in ticks i gave it sum food and water,but it seems very scared and just freezes or tries to hide when i go near him,anyway i'll be patient and give him time see how it goes

[Ideation 8,216]

Good on you mate.

 

Jai.

[stealthy1 3,964]

Dont use gloves, they settle down faster if you get the scent from your hands on them, even after you put him back in the cage he will still be able to smell your scent on him, so next time you pick him up he will be more docile

[polecat84 1]

Dont use gloves, they settle down faster if you get the scent from your hands on them, even after you put him back in the cage he will still be able to smell your scent on him, so next time you pick him up he will be more docile

yea mate im not going to use gloves managed to grab him by the scruff and get sum of the bigger ticks off him but the still managed to bite me.

[judge2010 196]

can ferrets survive in the wild? i dont mean polecats.

[Bradford Lad 74]

can ferrets survive in the wild? i dont mean polecats.

 

i would say they could but not for any length of time.

[Born Hunter 17,763]

can ferrets survive in the wild? i dont mean polecats.

 

My albino hob was found wild last september time, now hes a very capable ferret and he was skin and bones when i found him. So i would say, yes some ferrets can survive but i would imagine the majority cant. Remember although the domestic ferret looks the same as a wild polecat, they are actually very different animals.

[stealthy1 3,964]

Dont use gloves, they settle down faster if you get the scent from your hands on them, even after you put him back in the cage he will still be able to smell your scent on him, so next time you pick him up he will be more docile

yea mate im not going to use gloves managed to grab him by the scruff and get sum of the bigger ticks off him but the still managed to bite me.

 

 

I had this once with a rescue jill, not been handled since it was a kit, and had its food poked through the mesh, Its a challenge eh!

[stealthy1 3,964]

can ferrets survive in the wild? i dont mean polecats.

 

 

If there's plenty of food they will survive, we see them dead at the side of the road regular, knocked over by cars, big muscled hobs mainly

[ferrety f 23]

well the security light kept coming on last night and my two hobs were going mad,had a look out side and there was a big albino hob trying to get at my two,any way it very quickly ran off and hid under the shed but i managed to catch it with my landing net,it seems pretty wild and is coverd in ticks i gave it sum food and water,but it seems very scared and just freezes or tries to hide when i go near him,anyway i'll be patient and give him time see how it goes

 

where are you from ? just there is a young lad been looking for his ferret for weeks now, please respond.

[Ideation 8,216]

Some can survive and prosper - i was talking to a member on here who has to trap quite a lot of feral ferrets, many that were born wild and has found a lot of them living in rabbit burrows and taking rabbits as they need. Up on the dales i think.

 

 

atb

 

Jai.

[polecat84 1]

well the security light kept coming on last night and my two hobs were going mad,had a look out side and there was a big albino hob trying to get at my two,any way it very quickly ran off and hid under the shed but i managed to catch it with my landing net,it seems pretty wild and is coverd in ticks i gave it sum food and water,but it seems very scared and just freezes or tries to hide when i go near him,anyway i'll be patient and give him time see how it goes

 

where are you from ? just there is a young lad been looking for his ferret for weeks now, please respond.

you tell me where this young lad is from mate?

[ferrety f 23]

well the security light kept coming on last night and my two hobs were going mad,had a look out side and there was a big albino hob trying to get at my two,any way it very quickly ran off and hid under the shed but i managed to catch it with my landing net,it seems pretty wild and is coverd in ticks i gave it sum food and water,but it seems very scared and just freezes or tries to hide when i go near him,anyway i'll be patient and give him time see how it goes

 

where are you from ? just there is a young lad been looking for his ferret for weeks now, please respond.

you tell me where this young lad is from mate?

Cant be his.. just realised you are in cheshire, he is from yorkshire

[The one 8,479]

When we were going lamping the other night we saw a small polecat jill thar had been clipped at the side of the road ,we gave it the once over and threw it deeper into the verge