european polecats

[barry lurcher 27]

And for every one in a litter that you can handle while working whats the percentage that you can and are useless ??? that question never was answered but you can bet its far far higher than in a normal ferrret litter

i did answer it i aint bred them.my whole point was that i can handle the ones i got when they were kits,granted they took a bit longer but come good.so all good there.oh and kay i never said they were pure bred.i just dont know.defo diffrent charestics to the other ones and a lot darker.and whistle all you want one you still never answewred my point.they work great and are polecats so whats the problem?quick to give your opinions lads and lasses but when i answer your points.its conviently avoided and back to gimics!as i said there more lads desperate to get their hands on bews imo thats a gimic just as much as an eu hybrid.your obviously going for looks with picking that particular strain.

 

i dont recall saying you did keep wild polecats

well i apologise if i picked you up wrong kay.guess you were just meaning in general there no pure ones out there.

 

i think most people only have what there told to go by .. they buy whats described as European polecat kits or hybrids ... i really believe in reality that even the most seasoned ferret keeper would struggle to bring a genuine polecat round enough to trust it ... to be able to pass it over hedgerows & to be able to retrieve it after each trip out .

 

I over wintered a polecat here some yrs ago ... a very beautifull animal & one that i couldnt wait for it to go... they really dont do well in a small back garden & deserved to be able to live a better life ... a very different animal to the ferrets i kept ... but a hell of a lot easier to look after during in its stay than the skitty hybrid i had the missfortune to get landed with ... thats was in a class of its own :laugh:

 

think your wrong you handle any ferret polecat constantly no problem its the people who ha ndle then get bored or to busy they get the problems

[Jamie m 668]

Blighmey Barry only took you a year to reply to that lol

[barry lurcher 27]

Blighmey Barry only took you a year to reply to that lol

 

was a bit long wasnt it was looking at eu polecat items and can along that

[ferret lady 73]

i dont think romany or myself ever said they were pure.when i got mine i was told they were pure eu.never believed it for a minuite.anyway maybe ive picked you up wrong,but are you saying that there are no pure wild plecats in the uk?

 

oh and ive kept poleys since i was a kid,and i can assure you that these ones are diffrent in a lot of ways even in smell.than your average fert or polecat.

 

Guess my reply is a few months late. I've seen 2-3 pics over the years of what appear to be true polecats in the wild, so they certainly do exist in the UK. I just don't think that the ones currently being bred and sold as European polecats are pure polecats, though many of them do appear to be hybrids of varying degrees.

 

The two captive bred polecats I imported from the UK last fall are excellent quality with outstanding temperaments, and have the typical stocky, muscular polecat body but their heads lack the frontal eye placement of true polecats, so I consider them high content hybrids. I didn't care whether or not they were actually pure polecats, so long as they had the conformation, temperaments, and overall high quality I was looking for.

[Jamie m 668]

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[Ideation 8,216]

Breed a polecat in captivity long enough and it's a ferret.

[ferret lady 73]

Breed a polecat in captivity long enough and it's a ferret.

 

I'm inclined to agree with you.