Ferret go's on walk about

[bunnyboy 0]

My partner was feeding our ferrets the other night and one of our hobs decided to go on walk about, so after contacting the rspca, local vets and working ferrets owners or owners of pet ferrets in the area, none of which held any hope for his safe return.

 

I phoned a friend the following evening and was talking about the hob that went on walk about, just as we were chatting there was an almighty crash of tools in the outside passage and it was one of those crashes that could only be caused by an inquisitive ferret as the dogs walk past the tools several times a day, but ferret have to check everything over even if they do knock everything over.

 

All of the people that I told about the ferrets return via the catflap couldn't believe about his return

[Guest Frank]

Glad you got him back.

 

Now, imagine if that was a wild polecat, that some folks on here want to get into.

Not a hope :11:

 

Frank.

[staffy-1 0]

they don't seem to go far mate, well i lost mine for a week and someone found him in the local supermarket thinking he was a rat.

staffy-1

[bunnyboy 0]

they don't seem to go far mate, well i lost mine for a week and someone found him in the local supermarket thinking he was a rat.

staffy-1

 

lol

 

talk to certain people on ferret boards and they will tell you that there is no hope of seeing him again, just like the gamekeepers and working ferret owners around this village.

[bunnyboy 0]

Now, imagine if that was a wild polecat, that some folks on here want to get into.

Not a hope :11:

 

 

Well Frank.

 

Have you experience with wild polecat or polecat hybrids?

 

On the occasion that one of my hybrids went on walk about I stood watching her for half an hour or more in the field behind the house with one whistle from me and she shot back through the hedge, passing me an headed for the cat flap before she realised that I was in the garden, these animals are not brainless as some people seem to think, they know where they are well off. :11: :11:

[Guest Frank]

Yes I have, in the past, kept pure polecats, not a hybrid, as you put it.

 

They can be a handfull sir, thats my experience with, 'PURE polecats.

 

Frank.

[Guest the poacher]

i had one talking 7 years ago someone let him out of the cage he traveled the length of my street bit through chicken wire to get into a rabbit hutch killed the rabbit and ate half of it the woman had a shock when she went to feed her rabbit

[Guest Frank]

I bet she did. :11:

 

Frank.

[bunnyboy 0]

'the poacher'

 

In the south of where I lived for some years my polecats and ferrets were called by the locale ferreters as 'pussy polecats' because they would never kill a rabbit, they would always drag any rabbit out of the warren.

I think it was in a book written by a game keeper called 'pugs and drummers' where he kept rabbits next to his ferrets / polecats and he called them 'sweethearts' because once he started keeping them none of his ferrets or polecats would kill underground, now I would have thought that was better than having to dig them out?

 

'Frank'

 

Things maybe different in your part of the woods, but around here you have to have a licence to keep pure polecats.

[Guest Frank]

Is that right, never new that :11:

 

I worked in a wildlife park many moons ago in the UK and was in charge of the wild polecats. I got to take home a couple of yougens when they had kits, under special permission.

 

Know a thing or 2 mate about WILD polecats.

 

Take care.

 

Frank.

[Kay 3,709]

Is that right, never new that :11:

 

I worked in a wildlife park many moons ago in the UK and was in charge of the wild polecats. I got to take home a couple of yougens when they had kits, under special permission.

 

Know a thing or 2 mate about WILD polecats.

 

Take care.

 

Frank.

 

well said Frank, seems like a know all to me

Edited November 13, 2006 by ferretlove

[bunnyboy 0]

Is that right, never new that :11:

 

I worked in a wildlife park many moons ago in the UK and was in charge of the wild polecats. I got to take home a couple of yougens when they had kits, under special permission.

 

Know a thing or 2 mate about WILD polecats.

 

Take care.

Frank.

 

well said Frank, seems like a know all to me

Ahh Frank, seems like we were in the same line of work at one point. :11:

For 12 years my work involved the integration of native species along with a wildlife group and there weren't so many polecats around.

[Guest Frank]

Thats good, hope you had fun, as i use to love it.

 

Good luck,

 

Frank.