Gutted

[Minkenry 1,044]

 

 

 

I doubt you need to worry about feral cats. They are complete cowards. It takes a special cat to hunt full grown rats or squirrels, let alone a ferret. If your ferret isn't tough enough to fight off a wussy cat then you didn't have a ferret worth keeping anyway! LOL

Last winter one of my tiny little 700 gram female mink killed a full grown feral cat, so no need to worry about cats. I think your ferret would kill a cat long before a cat would kill him, but of course I'm far from a ferret expert as I've only had a couple, and now I work with mink, not ferrets.

 

I have a mink that I've lost at least half a dozen times and I always get her back. This year she was free for most of the month of August. I would assume that if a wild animal like a mink returns home 6 different times, then his tame and domestic cousin the ferret sure should!

 

Wow! did you see the cat/mink encounter happen? must have been a weak little feral cat

 

 

It looked pretty average to me. Not too big, not too small. Sure put up a fight! At first the cat was looking at the mink like "ooo what do we have here? A nice overgrown mouse?" My mink was locked in her cage and going crazy running back and forth, wanting to get at the cat. I laughed and said, "So you think you can handle her do you? Well go ahead and try but don't come crying to me when she kicks your butt."

 

I let the mink have at her, and she ran straight up to the cat who showed no fear until the mink was just a couple feet away, then she arched her back and hissed, striking at the mink's face with her claws. My little mink dipped and dived dodging the cat's claws, and then jumped in and grabbed the cat by the nose like a little pit bull baiting a bear! I had my camera, and almost started videoing it, but decided I better not because I might have someone turn me in for animal cruelty. Just about no one cares when your mink kills a rat, but everyone's up in arms when it's a "cute little kitty". It's the same reason you won't find any videos of me give domestic rabbits to my mink, though I do it all the time when my mink are young and still in training.

 

So the cat and mink were rolling around on the ground and I started to get worried. I was about to step in when it looked like my mink's head was in the cat's mouth, but then my mink squirmed around and maneuvered herself to the cat's back. She looked like a little jockey ridding a thoroughbred! She chewed into the back of the cat's head as the cat squirmed around and around, trying to get the mink off of it's back. Finally the cat somehow escaped (I don't remember how or why, just that it did) and the cat ran off and tied to climb to get away from the mink. The mink just jumped up and grabbed the lowest hind leg on the cat as the cat was climbing, and the cat released it's grip and fell as it tried to get the mink which was attached to it's leg.

 

They both ended up in a heap rolling around trying to get at each other, and it was only a moment before the mink was back on top of the cat chewing on the back of its neck. Eventually the cat went into shock, and my mink ran off to get a drink and soak in some water to cool off. Then she came back to the half alive, but too in shock to move cat, and tried to drag it away. The cat was too big for her to move, so I grabbed it by its tail as she grabbed it by it's head, and I helped her drag it to her carry box. I then gave her some meat to eat while I put the in shock cat out of its misery.

 

Mmmmm..Sounds like a tall story Not sure a mink would bother with a cat unless trying to defend itself. would sure love to see that on videotape..shame you didn't record it

 

Believe what you will, I know the truth. I've had a different mink that weighed around 850 grams that would bolt full grown beavers multiple times in a row when they knew we were just outside their dens waiting for them with nets, but that I also can't prove. So believe what you want, I'm not offended. I don't know that I would believe the story ether if I were in your shoes. One day I'll get some video of some crazy mink action on something more intense than just a muskrat and you'll have to admit I wasn't just telling tall tails

 

However, I'm not going to risk loosing my mink by making videos that I might be prosecuted for, so I doubt you'll ever see any mink vs cat action. Too many people are overly protective of cats, even though they are the nastiest and most destructive of all vermin!

Edited September 17, 2013 by Minkenry

[onthehunt 40]

 

 

 

 

I doubt you need to worry about feral cats. They are complete cowards. It takes a special cat to hunt full grown rats or squirrels, let alone a ferret. If your ferret isn't tough enough to fight off a wussy cat then you didn't have a ferret worth keeping anyway! LOL

Last winter one of my tiny little 700 gram female mink killed a full grown feral cat, so no need to worry about cats. I think your ferret would kill a cat long before a cat would kill him, but of course I'm far from a ferret expert as I've only had a couple, and now I work with mink, not ferrets.

 

I have a mink that I've lost at least half a dozen times and I always get her back. This year she was free for most of the month of August. I would assume that if a wild animal like a mink returns home 6 different times, then his tame and domestic cousin the ferret sure should!

 

Wow! did you see the cat/mink encounter happen? must have been a weak little feral cat

 

 

It looked pretty average to me. Not too big, not too small. Sure put up a fight! At first the cat was looking at the mink like "ooo what do we have here? A nice overgrown mouse?" My mink was locked in her cage and going crazy running back and forth, wanting to get at the cat. I laughed and said, "So you think you can handle her do you? Well go ahead and try but don't come crying to me when she kicks your butt."

 

I let the mink have at her, and she ran straight up to the cat who showed no fear until the mink was just a couple feet away, then she arched her back and hissed, striking at the mink's face with her claws. My little mink dipped and dived dodging the cat's claws, and then jumped in and grabbed the cat by the nose like a little pit bull baiting a bear! I had my camera, and almost started videoing it, but decided I better not because I might have someone turn me in for animal cruelty. Just about no one cares when your mink kills a rat, but everyone's up in arms when it's a "cute little kitty". It's the same reason you won't find any videos of me give domestic rabbits to my mink, though I do it all the time when my mink are young and still in training.

 

So the cat and mink were rolling around on the ground and I started to get worried. I was about to step in when it looked like my mink's head was in the cat's mouth, but then my mink squirmed around and maneuvered herself to the cat's back. She looked like a little jockey ridding a thoroughbred! She chewed into the back of the cat's head as the cat squirmed around and around, trying to get the mink off of it's back. Finally the cat somehow escaped (I don't remember how or why, just that it did) and the cat ran off and tied to climb to get away from the mink. The mink just jumped up and grabbed the lowest hind leg on the cat as the cat was climbing, and the cat released it's grip and fell as it tried to get the mink which was attached to it's leg.

 

They both ended up in a heap rolling around trying to get at each other, and it was only a moment before the mink was back on top of the cat chewing on the back of its neck. Eventually the cat went into shock, and my mink ran off to get a drink and soak in some water to cool off. Then she came back to the half alive, but too in shock to move cat, and tried to drag it away. The cat was too big for her to move, so I grabbed it by its tail as she grabbed it by it's head, and I helped her drag it to her carry box. I then gave her some meat to eat while I put the in shock cat out of its misery.

 

Mmmmm..Sounds like a tall story Not sure a mink would bother with a cat unless trying to defend itself. would sure love to see that on videotape..shame you didn't record it

 

Believe what you will, I know the truth. I've had a different mink that weighed around 850 grams that would bolt full grown beavers multiple times in a row when they knew we were just outside their dens waiting for them with nets, but that I also can't prove. So believe what you want, I'm not offended. I don't know that I would believe the story ether if I were in your shoes. One day I'll get some video of some crazy mink action on something more intense than just a muskrat and you'll have to admit I wasn't just telling tall tails

 

However, I'm not going to risk loosing my mink by making videos that I might be prosecuted for, so I doubt you'll ever see any mink vs cat action. Too many people are overly protective of cats, even though they are the nastiest and most destructive of all vermin!

 

Noooooooooooooooooooo! how very dare you cute widdle kitties aren't vermin I

[Blind Hawk 57]

Glad you got your Jill back you were very lucky

[Blind Hawk 57]

 

 

 

 

 

I doubt you need to worry about feral cats. They are complete cowards. It takes a special cat to hunt full grown rats or squirrels, let alone a ferret. If your ferret isn't tough enough to fight off a wussy cat then you didn't have a ferret worth keeping anyway! LOL

Last winter one of my tiny little 700 gram female mink killed a full grown feral cat, so no need to worry about cats. I think your ferret would kill a cat long before a cat would kill him, but of course I'm far from a ferret expert as I've only had a couple, and now I work with mink, not ferrets.

 

I have a mink that I've lost at least half a dozen times and I always get her back. This year she was free for most of the month of August. I would assume that if a wild animal like a mink returns home 6 different times, then his tame and domestic cousin the ferret sure should!

 

Wow! did you see the cat/mink encounter happen? must have been a weak little feral cat

 

 

It looked pretty average to me. Not too big, not too small. Sure put up a fight! At first the cat was looking at the mink like "ooo what do we have here? A nice overgrown mouse?" My mink was locked in her cage and going crazy running back and forth, wanting to get at the cat. I laughed and said, "So you think you can handle her do you? Well go ahead and try but don't come crying to me when she kicks your butt."

 

I let the mink have at her, and she ran straight up to the cat who showed no fear until the mink was just a couple feet away, then she arched her back and hissed, striking at the mink's face with her claws. My little mink dipped and dived dodging the cat's claws, and then jumped in and grabbed the cat by the nose like a little pit bull baiting a bear! I had my camera, and almost started videoing it, but decided I better not because I might have someone turn me in for animal cruelty. Just about no one cares when your mink kills a rat, but everyone's up in arms when it's a "cute little kitty". It's the same reason you won't find any videos of me give domestic rabbits to my mink, though I do it all the time when my mink are young and still in training.

 

So the cat and mink were rolling around on the ground and I started to get worried. I was about to step in when it looked like my mink's head was in the cat's mouth, but then my mink squirmed around and maneuvered herself to the cat's back. She looked like a little jockey ridding a thoroughbred! She chewed into the back of the cat's head as the cat squirmed around and around, trying to get the mink off of it's back. Finally the cat somehow escaped (I don't remember how or why, just that it did) and the cat ran off and tied to climb to get away from the mink. The mink just jumped up and grabbed the lowest hind leg on the cat as the cat was climbing, and the cat released it's grip and fell as it tried to get the mink which was attached to it's leg.

 

They both ended up in a heap rolling around trying to get at each other, and it was only a moment before the mink was back on top of the cat chewing on the back of its neck. Eventually the cat went into shock, and my mink ran off to get a drink and soak in some water to cool off. Then she came back to the half alive, but too in shock to move cat, and tried to drag it away. The cat was too big for her to move, so I grabbed it by its tail as she grabbed it by it's head, and I helped her drag it to her carry box. I then gave her some meat to eat while I put the in shock cat out of its misery.

 

Mmmmm..Sounds like a tall story Not sure a mink would bother with a cat unless trying to defend itself. would sure love to see that on videotape..shame you didn't record it

 

Believe what you will, I know the truth. I've had a different mink that weighed around 850 grams that would bolt full grown beavers multiple times in a row when they knew we were just outside their dens waiting for them with nets, but that I also can't prove. So believe what you want, I'm not offended. I don't know that I would believe the story ether if I were in your shoes. One day I'll get some video of some crazy mink action on something more intense than just a muskrat and you'll have to admit I wasn't just telling tall tails

 

However, I'm not going to risk loosing my mink by making videos that I might be prosecuted for, so I doubt you'll ever see any mink vs cat action. Too many people are overly protective of cats, even though they are the nastiest and most destructive of all vermin!

 

Noooooooooooooooooooo! how very dare you cute widdle kitties aren't vermin I

 

Stop leave it so

[onthehunt 40]

 

 

 

 

 

 

I doubt you need to worry about feral cats. They are complete cowards. It takes a special cat to hunt full grown rats or squirrels, let alone a ferret. If your ferret isn't tough enough to fight off a wussy cat then you didn't have a ferret worth keeping anyway! LOL

Last winter one of my tiny little 700 gram female mink killed a full grown feral cat, so no need to worry about cats. I think your ferret would kill a cat long before a cat would kill him, but of course I'm far from a ferret expert as I've only had a couple, and now I work with mink, not ferrets.

 

I have a mink that I've lost at least half a dozen times and I always get her back. This year she was free for most of the month of August. I would assume that if a wild animal like a mink returns home 6 different times, then his tame and domestic cousin the ferret sure should!

 

Wow! did you see the cat/mink encounter happen? must have been a weak little feral cat

 

 

It looked pretty average to me. Not too big, not too small. Sure put up a fight! At first the cat was looking at the mink like "ooo what do we have here? A nice overgrown mouse?" My mink was locked in her cage and going crazy running back and forth, wanting to get at the cat. I laughed and said, "So you think you can handle her do you? Well go ahead and try but don't come crying to me when she kicks your butt."

 

I let the mink have at her, and she ran straight up to the cat who showed no fear until the mink was just a couple feet away, then she arched her back and hissed, striking at the mink's face with her claws. My little mink dipped and dived dodging the cat's claws, and then jumped in and grabbed the cat by the nose like a little pit bull baiting a bear! I had my camera, and almost started videoing it, but decided I better not because I might have someone turn me in for animal cruelty. Just about no one cares when your mink kills a rat, but everyone's up in arms when it's a "cute little kitty". It's the same reason you won't find any videos of me give domestic rabbits to my mink, though I do it all the time when my mink are young and still in training.

 

So the cat and mink were rolling around on the ground and I started to get worried. I was about to step in when it looked like my mink's head was in the cat's mouth, but then my mink squirmed around and maneuvered herself to the cat's back. She looked like a little jockey ridding a thoroughbred! She chewed into the back of the cat's head as the cat squirmed around and around, trying to get the mink off of it's back. Finally the cat somehow escaped (I don't remember how or why, just that it did) and the cat ran off and tied to climb to get away from the mink. The mink just jumped up and grabbed the lowest hind leg on the cat as the cat was climbing, and the cat released it's grip and fell as it tried to get the mink which was attached to it's leg.

 

They both ended up in a heap rolling around trying to get at each other, and it was only a moment before the mink was back on top of the cat chewing on the back of its neck. Eventually the cat went into shock, and my mink ran off to get a drink and soak in some water to cool off. Then she came back to the half alive, but too in shock to move cat, and tried to drag it away. The cat was too big for her to move, so I grabbed it by its tail as she grabbed it by it's head, and I helped her drag it to her carry box. I then gave her some meat to eat while I put the in shock cat out of its misery.

 

Mmmmm..Sounds like a tall story Not sure a mink would bother with a cat unless trying to defend itself. would sure love to see that on videotape..shame you didn't record it

 

Believe what you will, I know the truth. I've had a different mink that weighed around 850 grams that would bolt full grown beavers multiple times in a row when they knew we were just outside their dens waiting for them with nets, but that I also can't prove. So believe what you want, I'm not offended. I don't know that I would believe the story ether if I were in your shoes. One day I'll get some video of some crazy mink action on something more intense than just a muskrat and you'll have to admit I wasn't just telling tall tails

 

However, I'm not going to risk loosing my mink by making videos that I might be prosecuted for, so I doubt you'll ever see any mink vs cat action. Too many people are overly protective of cats, even though they are the nastiest and most destructive of all vermin!

 

Noooooooooooooooooooo! how very dare you cute widdle kitties aren't vermin I

 

Stop leave it so

 

LOL its meant in jest

[bribri988 141]

Set a big rat trap with a nice chick in lol depends if you live near fields i have lost mine before caught one in a trap and the other one wondered on to a busy road inside a shoe shop lmao atb mate keep us posted

[ferreterni 29]

Had mine get out on a couple of occasions, once they turned up in next doors garden n their kids were playin wuth them, and in another neighbours hallway. Other time it was dark and tge ferreting terrier found them curled under the bush in front garden. Never went far really