Advice-Urgent if possible-lost ferrets

[scothunter 12,609]

just checked my live traps this morning at 5.00. One very cold Hob.... Had drank all the water, not touched the food.

One down ......One to go. I am begining to see light at the end of a very stressful tunnel

Thanks for the support

Matt

Yay im happy fro you and the kids mate.

[murraywatt 0]

now you got the other one back try and get some bedding with his scent on it and put it in a live catch trap that worked for me, if there is a rabbit net fence around with drop boxes set them away and theyl come to the scent of the caught rabbits a mates got lost on my ground and after a week of drop boxes i got him back

[Malt 379]

Glad you got one back, now for the other! Keep your hopes up matey, they can last a good while on their travels.

[Tumbleweed 1]

When one of ours escaped we informed all the neighbours and took the others for walks in the area she'd been spotted by a local farmer (quite a way from the house too!) in the hope she'd pick up their scent. Eventually she came back on her own accord two weeks later. She had a tick and some fleas but other than that was in pretty good condition. She'd made no attempt to escape since... lol.

[The one 8,489]

Nice one hope you get the other one back as well

[pritch 335]

had a hob come back after 8 months soon as the jills came in season fat as apig aswell lived on a railway enbankment try looking when its abit cooler they just tend to sleep in this heat good luck Pritch

[Lilyferret 0]

Glad you've found one already. fingers crossed the other turns up very soon

[mattydski 560]

now you got the other one back try and get some bedding with his scent on it and put it in a live catch trap that worked for me, if there is a rabbit net fence around with drop boxes set them away and theyl come to the scent of the caught rabbits a mates got lost on my ground and after a week of drop boxes i got him back

Now that sounds like a plan. Will try that tonight. They are very good close brothers, so it could just work.

Thanks again to all the sugestions

Matt

[murraywatt 0]

now you got the other one back try and get some bedding with his scent on it and put it in a live catch trap that worked for me, if there is a rabbit net fence around with drop boxes set them away and theyl come to the scent of the caught rabbits a mates got lost on my ground and after a week of drop boxes i got him back

Now that sounds like a plan. Will try that tonight. They are very good close brothers, so it could just work.

Thanks again to all the sugestions

Matt

 

 

just had a thoughits a bit late in the year now but if you or someone you know has a jill in season get her out and get her down holes with a coller on she mite just go right to the hob, either tht or bedding from her in a trap thats the way my boss does it and its worked 9 outa ten times, just watch if round u gets keepered iv had a few get loose and end up in one o the traps up the burn

[dytkos 17,813]

now you got the other one back try and get some bedding with his scent on it and put it in a live catch trap that worked for me, if there is a rabbit net fence around with drop boxes set them away and theyl come to the scent of the caught rabbits a mates got lost on my ground and after a week of drop boxes i got him back

Now that sounds like a plan. Will try that tonight. They are very good close brothers, so it could just work.

Thanks again to all the sugestions

Matt

Last year I didn't block the drain holes up properly after cleaning my ferret run. Lost ferrets at 12 noon Tues. Put posters up around etc and looked around for about 4 hours. Midnight my hob was back in the run. Result! Kept looking and calling regularly for the next few days without luck and had given up hope for the jill so got a replacement from MT on the following Monday morning. Within 30 mins of putting her in the run the local RSPCA van turned up with a lady asking if I had lost a ferret!

It was my jill who had been living at the back of an industrial unit in a rabbitty banking on the other side of a busy road about half a mile away! Good luck with yours. Cheers, D.

[Kay 3,709]

glad ones shown up

[pritch 335]

if you know someone with an in season jill & have a spare hutch it will be back in no time ATB Pritch