What a sad mess . . . . .

[Ideation 8,216]

Never seen one so i looked up some photos . . . . . .

 

 

http://www.maferrets.org/forums/attachments/harry.jpg

 

How sad is that?

[tb25 4,627]

nether seen or heard ov these ferrets before,are they bread that whey mate?

[pipa 299]

i aint heard of them until today in countrymans, there going for £200 each? what a joke!

[RaiderBoy 19]

Never seen one so i looked up some photos . . . . . .

 

 

http://www.maferrets.org/forums/attachments/harry.jpg

 

How sad is that?

 

It happens mate there always someone who wants to be different, who knows what kind of imbreed messes were destroyed when trying to breed that mess

 

Richard

[Ideation 8,216]

Yer they were selectively bred this way i guess and they are probably riddled with genetic problems. Just look at the poor wee f****r. . . . makes you wanna go find the breeders and have a 'word'.

[Ideation 8,216]

Just found this . . .

 

Angora ferrets came into existance when a Swedish breeder noticed his ferrets had a mutation. This mutation caused the ferrets to have longer hair on their back legs and rear of their bodies. This Swedish breeder sold their ferrets to a Norway fur farm/breeder that eventually produced the current breed of angora ferret. Although no proof exist it is thought that continuous inbreeding to keep the angora line alive caused some negative traits like a difficulty to breed, kits not being nursed by the female's (jill's) and non performance of the males (hobs). The female angora's inability to produce enough milk to nurse the kits is the only negativity that has been confirmed although half of them do make enough milk to take care of the needs of their young.

 

 

 

The Norwegian ferrets where imported by a Swedish breeder/fur farm and male polecats (skunks) where breed to female ferrrets. A surrogate female polecat was used to nurse the kits produced. The hydrid kits had a better ability to breed than their angora mothers. This breeder then sold everything to a small scale breeder in the United States and Soren Thingaard in Denmark around 1997. The U.S. Breeder eventually returned to Sweden and is thought to have continued breeding the Swedish line. It is thought the US breeder exported some of his ferrets from Sweden and possibly Denmark; these ferrets are believed to have been sold to two US importers in Minneapolis and Washington State. The exported ferrets hadn't been and handled by people or socialized then the importer in Washington fed them dry dog food which turned them into hungy and irritated kits giving the angora ferret a bad name.

 

 

 

The breeding of the original Danish line was continued by Soren (it is thought there are numberous lines coming from the Norwegians now), they are the only breeder of their scale with an estimated 900 pairs of breeding ferrets that produce around 1500 a year. Around ten paris of short hair ferrets each carryig the right gene have to be breed to get one full breed angora. It was around 1996 that Marc Morrone and Soren came in contact. Marc is now the only US importer for the Danish ferrets Soren produces. A nipping problem was discovered so the breeding went to being only the gentlest of the ferrets which reduced the problem.

[Kay 3,709]

Theres some woman on here breeds them .. was trying to peddle them last year .. i was told if she didnt get the asking price her kid had to have aldi baked beans :clapper:

[mushroom 13,012]

Thread from this time last year £200 each

 

http://www.thehuntinglife.com/forums/topic/109359-no-kin-way/page__p__1130407__fromsearch__1#entry1130407

[chimp 299]

only one way of dealing with it . chip in and buy a couple and flood the market with £5 angoras lol

[scothunter 12,609]

only one way of dealing with it . chip in and buy a couple and flood the market with £5 angoras lol

 

lol

[stealthy1 3,964]

Why are Angora's are ok with the RSPCA, because surely this is a form of animal creulty, breeding known sick animals for a profit has to be illigal?

[ferret lady 73]

Angora ferrets are genetic disasters and I'm not aware of any knowledgeable, ethical ferret breeders who would even consider breeding them. Also, I don't know of any reputable ferret organization anywhere in the world which condones their breeding and most discourage it, as they promote only the breeding of mentally and physically sound, healthy ferrets.

 

The ONLY reason I can think of for breeding such ferrets is greed. There are always idiots, ignorant or otherwise, who are willing to pay high prices for something perceived as unusual or different with little or no concern for the animals's future health or quality of life.

[Kay 3,709]

Angora ferrets are genetic disasters and I'm not aware of any knowledgeable, ethical ferret breeders who would even consider breeding them. Also, I don't know of any reputable ferret organization anywhere in the world which condones their breeding and most discourage it, as they promote only the breeding of mentally and physically sound, healthy ferrets.

 

The ONLY reason I can think of for breeding such ferrets is greed. There are always idiots, ignorant or otherwise, who are willing to pay high prices for something perceived as unusual or different with little or no concern for the animals's future health or quality of life.

 

It is about money ... there a curiosity still so i reccon these people see that & price them simply because there not that common

[wullieh 53]

Here is a picture of an angora ferret i got handed in to my rescue last year it was inly about 4 mths old, the girl drove two and a half hours to pick him up and paid £200 for him and its surrogate mum as angoras cant rear there own kits, when i explained to the girl that she only lines the breeders pockets and told her why it had a surrogate mum and what would have happened to the kits from her she said she would not have got him if known this, any way he is still at the rescue despite alot of folk willing to take him off my hands but as you can see my boy quite likes him so he will stay here and will that way i know he will never be bred from, and will live a happy life. you might think i am mad but i wish to keep him so that i can record any ailments he gets thrughout his life and compare it with a standard ferret,

but please note i do not and will not agree with the breeding of this animal but atleast i can look after it until he is gone as to date he is the only real one i have ever seen in scotland as have the whole of the scottish club members, but no doubt this trend will kick off and folk will start to get them but not from me i asure you of that.

[scothunter 12,609]

hmmm we could breed them wi euro poley crosses and make a barrowload of cash lol