advice

[diggermad 154]

hi need some advice i got given to me a month ago a polecat someone had caught in a trap its very nasty and wont come out of his box till dark would you put it with your domesticated ferret os keep it seperate just worried it might kill my own ferrets cheers DM

[lorelei0922 2]

hi need some advice i got given to me a month ago a polecat someone had caught in a trap its very nasty and wont come out of his box till dark would you put it with your domesticated ferret os keep it seperate just worried it might kill my own ferrets cheers DM

 

 

why do you want to keep this polecat? surely something this unsociable and this agressive isn't going to be an asset to a hunting team? why not get it to an animal sanctuary where it can be released ?

 

dont think i'd risk adding something THIS unknown with my ferrets....

[will.f11 24]

is this the true polecat your freind caught in the fenn trap. if it is id just let it go back where you found it. it will have a food source etc there so i would

[diggermad 154]

have been thinking about that just that when i got it given to me it was full of ticks it had cuts all over it its ears were that bad it took me a week to clean them its looking something like a ferret now still a bit shy but i can just handle it now after a month cheers for the advice DM

[masmiffy 82]

is this the true polecat your freind caught in the fenn trap. if it is id just let it go back where you found it. it will have a food source etc there so i would

If it was caught in a Fenn Trap it would be a dead un!

Or the pratt setting it didnt do it right!

[diggermad 154]

my same words but he only set mk 4s that night and it had it by the waste thing is it was only in the trap for about 5 mins probably saved its life him checking them on the way back cheers mate DM

[noddy6560 0]

if it is a true polecat, do you not need a license to keep it ?

[Tiercel 6,986]

have been thinking about that just that when i got it given to me it was full of ticks it had cuts all over it its ears were that bad it took me a week to clean them its looking something like a ferret now still a bit shy but i can just handle it now after a month cheers for the advice DM

 

If that was a true wild Polecat you would not be handling it after a month in captivity. Well not without welding gauntlets anyway.

 

Tiercel

[Brimmer 220]

have been thinking about that just that when i got it given to me it was full of ticks it had cuts all over it its ears were that bad it took me a week to clean them its looking something like a ferret now still a bit shy but i can just handle it now after a month cheers for the advice DM

 

If that was a true wild Polecat you would not be handling it after a month in captivity. Well not without welding gauntlets anyway.

 

Tiercel

Picked an albino out of a drop box trap years ago, built like a Brick out house through living wild and well, after a month in captivity it shed lots of muscle, and after repeated attempts to tame it never became more than slightly tame.

Let it go where you found it before the cold sets in, hopefully it will get it's fat reserves and muscle back up to scratch as from my experience will never be usefull for anything more than fingershredding and stanking when it gets agitated!

[The one 8,467]

Why do you want to keep it if it's that bad ???