Taming A Biter

[Aussie Whip 4,112]

Years ago an old ferreter told me how to stop bad biting ferrets.He reckoned offer it your finger and when it bites down push your finger down its throat,repeat until ferret gets sick of choking and never bites again.I've always just handled gently from a young age and never had hard to handle ferrets.Wondering if anyone has had success with the previous method.

[Jax13 251]

My hob was a bit if a sod when I got him (young but not a kit anymore and barely handled) and he was also my first ferret so I was a little unsure how to approach it.

 

I started handling him with leather rigger gloves then went down to bare hand but sprayed with bitter apple spray.

 

He soon learnt after a couple of scuffings and a couple of pushed knuckles when he got ideas above his station.

 

 

In the future if I'm buying in a kit I'll make sure it's young and well handled rather than 4 months old and barely touched!

[3175darren 1,100]

The only way I used to do it, was with a bar of soap, coal tar or something like, stick the bar into the cage first and get him to bite hard, don't give him chance to smell it, every day then wash your hands with the soap, and always offer the soap in first, they soon associate, your hands with a bad taste, this works with aggressive biters, and nippers, however if you dig down to draw a rabbit from off there nose underground, and there still fighting with it, they may still have a go, but generally won't hold the same,

[Jamie m 668]

Biters lol thing of the past , what you wants a good latcher ?????

[The one 8,483]

Spend a lot of time with them as kits you rarely get any bother but if you get a biter try your knuckle of your finger still got the same result but they cant latch on to it , if you feed them wait till there drowsy and handle them there less likely to bite

[Daniel cain 45,654]

Get some of that ferret paste and give it your finger to suck on.atb dc

[Aussie Whip 4,112]

I think that finger down the throat method was back in the day in Australia when the ferrets were fed just bread and milk,rabbits were too highly valued as a meat source for humans and ferrets lived in cut down 44 gal drums.Times were tough.

[3175darren 1,100]

I think that finger down the throat method was back in the day in Australia when the ferrets were fed just bread and milk,rabbits were too highly valued as a meat source for humans and ferrets lived in cut down 44 gal drums.Times were tough.

I remember feeding bread pobs, /bread and milk back in the 70's and shoving the finger into the back of the mouth, still there's no better way than regular calm handleing, and a good diet, however sometimes, you do come across ferrets that havnt had the time spent on them, they maybe should have had, and it's back to basics,

[jigsaw 11,866]

a ballpoint hammer anyone ?

[The one 8,483]

a ballpoint hammer anyone ?

Got to go to the half way point first or if your scared of the, and get a pair of gloves or if the bottle totally goes welders gloves

[rabbit demon 302]

I dont mind kits nipping, infact i expect it till they wisen up. usually a bit of rough play and give them a wee scruffing and a hiss when they bite too hard brings them round quick. I also feed wee bits of meat by hand to them, get a few latching on to you at first but again they soon realise fingers arent for eating, helps if they are well fed before hand. Sometimes a wee bit of spit on the hand for them too to lick off. Iv never bred or had any serious biters from kits iv had. Was given one adult jill that should have been culled. Was given another that went back to its owner and i got a rescue that had me black and blue for the best part of a year which eventually stopped biting. Theres nippers then theres proper biters.

[jigsaw 11,866]

 

a ballpoint hammer anyone ?

Got to go to the half way point first or if your scared of the, and get a pair of gloves or if the bottle totally goes welders gloves

 

I had a c**t that gave me 5 stitches years ago and did my small finger real bad too,the final straw was when he hunted my young lad down and sunk his teeth into the top of his shoe but he was after his ankle....so i says fuk this for a game of soldiers,,i spent weeks petting him,giving him treats and handling him constantly and he got WORSE ,,,i think he had mental issues...I know i had after a few weeks of avoiding the basterds teeth,,,and he wasnt that great of a hunting ferret either..so i blessed him and sent him to the other side...kits are the only way to start,as young as can be gotten,,,

 

 

 

I wont tolerate a ferret with a tendency to bite .........EVER

[charlie caller 3,654]

Only ever had one that you would call a proper evil bas*ard, in 30 odd years of keeping Ferrets, I could do nothing with him, one day he would be fine, the next it would latch on to you with real venom, the last straw came when he bit me old grandad, made a right mess, so a strategically placed .22 pellet sorted that job out, as others have said, I dont mind a kit nipping a bit, I expect it, but with some time spent with them they soon learn fingers are not for them, I guess Ferrets are just like people, you will always get one or two that are just plain bad.

[The one 8,483]

I remember when i first heard of silvers years ago i actually travelled 3 hours each way to get a pair and at that time when most ferrets where given away the guy charged me a £10 each but i was over the moon with them they where like squirrels running up and down the hutch wire and as they turned into adults something happened to then if you opened the carrying box they launched themselves out one latched on to the lurchers shoulder ,Then we where working a burrow i had a mark at a couple of feet and i hear dad its only one of the silvers thats missing dont put your hand in the hole . I didnt need to as i opened up the hole the ferret left the rabbit and started climbing up the spade then jumping at my hands . They where mental if you wanted them out the hutch you had to tail them they where looneys

[Aussie Whip 4,112]

My friends got bees,he has to replace the queen every so often as they become aggressive if are too inbred.Have seen inbred ferrets that were loopy and aggressive,so maybe inbreeding messes their brain up.