Ferrets

You shouldn’t let these youngsters know the truth, Linc….the lad might decide to leave us, and we wouldn’t want that, would we…??Aaaaaaaarrrrghhhhhh!:dev2:

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yes, being I imagine one of the younger members of this forum at 21 I learn an awful lot daily on here 🙂

Matt, If you spend too much time on G.D. there will come a day, when the men in white coats take you away, myself and Chas are only on here a few hrs a day, it’s the Institutes rules, then back to our padded room…:D
Jim.
Lincoln .7

Thanks, Matt. I didn’t know that – you learn something every day – certainly on this forum!!:)

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yes, being I imagine one of the younger members of this forum at 21 I learn an awful lot daily on here 🙂

How very true!!
Jim.
Lincoln ,7

Thanks, Matt. I didn’t know that – you learn something every day – certainly on this forum!!:)

The domesticated variety, presumably. In the wild I suppose they play their role in the general pecking order of wild life, don’t they?

Well, strictly speaking there is no such thing as a ‘wild ferret’ because a ferret is specifically the domesticated variety of polecat, like dogs being descendants from wolves and the like , the only time I imagine you’ll find a ferret in the wild is if it’s escaped, and something like a mink or a fox would take one pretty easily… Our 2 certainly have no issues bounding up to a dog or cat for play time … much to the horror of my old house mates cats which were TERRIFIED of the ferrets

when i used to keep them in a hutch in the garden they did manage to get out, to this day i think someone snuck into the garden and let them out maliciously, no idea where they went but they came back the following evening when they were hungry!

Rick, We have 2 dogs, which go wild, when two cats enter the garden, looks like a ferret is on the cards.:D
Jim.
Lincoln .7

They’re illegal to own in Califailure.. but are the most popular pet after dogs & cats…. They also sell for about $150 here.

Owned one in Cambridge about 25 years ago. vicous ******, It escaped & in the next 2 weeks there were posters up for 5 missing cats within 100 yards of my house.

Yeah ferrets never survive long in the wild if they escape, they have 0 danger awareness

The domesticated variety, presumably. In the wild I suppose they play their role in the general pecking order of wild life, don’t they?

Yeah ferrets never survive long in the wild if they escape, they have 0 danger awareness (for example our boy tried to stick his face in a candle) and they bounce around backwards without looking where they’re going. We also have leads for them 🙂 don’t take them out an awful lot, the few times I have there never seems to be much walking progress, they’re more into left right up down than just forwards… but they’re a lot of fun, and they’ll play like dogs but then sleep all day like cats up to 20 hours some times , i only met a ferret for the first time last year because my partner had one and now I can’t imagine life without them =]

Never appealed to me but their status as domesticated pets is affirmed by the fact that they are the only animal, apart from cats and dogs, for which you only require a “pet passport” to take them on the continent.

What a nice family photo, makes me think if we didn’t have 2 dogs, I may well choose one as a pet. There is a woman in town, who has one, and who takes it for a walk in town, on a lead.
Jim.
Lincoln .7

We had a lady on a campsite many years ago took hers with her on holiday,kids loved it.

What a nice family photo, makes me think if we didn’t have 2 dogs, I may well choose one as a pet. There is a woman in town, who has one, and who takes it for a walk in town, on a lead.
Jim.
Lincoln .7

Yeah we don’t use our for rabbit hunting personally, they’re just house pets, but we’ve had them from babies so they know full well they’ll get a hell of a telling off if they bite, we have found strangulation or drowning the only way to get them if they latch down, which they did a couple of times when we first got them, but they’ve both turned really docile now 🙂 and here’s a photo we took yesterday introducing the new baby [ATTACH=CONFIG]221157[/ATTACH] and as for the smell, yeah that only happens if you don’t clean them out enough, I’m sure if you were left to roll around in your …leavings… for a week you wouldn’t smell too great …. ;]

the joy of ferreting?

Choke, snork, fnarr?

Several years ago I watched a woman cooing and petting a ferret at a country show, held in the hands of its wrangler. Said woman was apparently interested in getting one for her kids and was thoroughly entranced in the ferrety fiend right up until in sank its teeth into her nose! The man tried to get it to release her but at one point the ferret was actually hanging from her nostril as she turned the air blue! Once it was released she ran from the display – I didn’t see any blood but can imagine that she might have assumed she needed extensive nasal reconstruction!

Tell nobody.

It was a length of B&Q plumbing pipe, drilled and painted black.

Moggy

That’s not fair Moggs, using a gun that size to shoot a Wabbit, just cos your ferret is too fat to get down the hole :highly_amused:

Jim

Lincoln .7

I had one a few years ago.

Sold it shortly after moving to East Anglia.

Moggy

I used to, about 60 yrs ago, and myself and friend used to go to a Railway embankment, place a net over all the rabbit holes we could find, then let a ferret down the one open hole we had left.
Used to be a good little earner, we sold them for five bob apiece. But when the little buggg*** get a hold of your finger, they don’t let go easily.
They do make good pets, but stink to high heaven if not kept properly.
Jim.
Lincoln .7

I don’t but a friend of mine has a couple.
What would put me off, is that they don’t live for too many years.