Wild polcat mateing ferret

[Daniel cain 45,777]

it's just a faster ferret that bites

9 minutes ago, Wideboy said:

I had a jill and a hob kit that were 1/4 wild polecat. They were wild as fook. It ended up, that they weren’t being clean out regularly because they were trying to jump at me, never mind just trying to bite my hands. So after about 8 months, it ended that I just opened the hutch door and shotgunned both of them one day. I dreaded having to even feed them. So tell him not to bother. 
Seriously, the two I had would hurt a child I reckon. 

hearing that reminds me of a lad I know...

[Aussie Whip 4,125]

Don't know about ferrets but I bred pet rats as a kid. A wild rat mated with one and the young tried to bite my fingers off as soon as their eyes opened. I let them play with my terrier.

[socks 32,253]

4 minutes ago, W. Katchum said:

Well I won’t be puttin this hob over my own jills, that’s how much I belive in it, not that I belive this is a true wild polecat, but iv spent years getting my ferrets the way I want them an even a feral ferret I know nowt about won’t be goin over them never mind a true wild polecat, I had them eu crosses years agk an never rated them, but k do know guys now who keep them an use them to great effect, an they wild on rats

There’s a lad in wales that’s got a team of them and they are deadly on rats. 

[Sirblessed 2,511]

The closest thing we get to a wild polecat here is a severely inbred ferret with psychological issues that cannot be handled Ha Ha ferrets can’t live in the wild here we have a mite that causes footrot that if left will kill the ferret not to mention the abundant predators

[Daniel cain 45,777]

couple of pics of my jills with fluffy winter coats..this time of yr they look like weasels

[Squirrel_Basher 17,100]

A true wild ferret would not be picked up let alone got close to.We have them here up around Newbury .Makes for an interesting dig when ones to ground though

Ive seen them years past whilst ferreting .They seem to bolt free enough .Caught a few in fens up that way years past when doing a bit of diy keepering .

Agree though ,why dilute something that has taken hundreds of years to perfect by adding the very wild base blood they all originated from .

Theres a golf course very near me with wild ferrets living free .Few albinos but mostly polecat versions .

They we’re intentionally released to get  on top the rabbit population which they never really did .VHD saw to that but the feral ferrets survived all that to spread a bit Im told ?Plenty of voles etc on golf courses .

[Daniel cain 45,777]

UK polecat numbers may be rising due to interbreeding with ferrets | New Scientist

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The population of polecats in Britain has recovered over the past century and it may be in part due to interbreeding...

 

[ryaldinhio 4,658]

On 15/08/2022 at 19:44, Arry said:

To me it's going backwards it took hundreds of year of breeding to take the wild out of ferrets. Only to breed it back in again.

Cheers Arry

100% what I was guna say pal. Ferrets are domesticated polecats. Like wondering if I should go snag a wolf and expect it to work like a colliegrey

[gnipper 6,503]

I've said it before but I bet some of them feral ferret colonies on the islands off Scotland have got some good working blood in them from before the show and pet breeders had started.