Pets corner!

Er! My two ferrets are looking for some friends to play with. They are called 'Im and 'Er, that's because she is female (Jill) and he is male (Hob), well - sort of.

They seem to like rabbits best. Dunno why.

Mike:whistle:

So, nobody like ferrets??

Mike

KUON;6059 wrote: So, nobody like ferrets??

Mike

Nothing wrong with ferrets. I like all those long-bodied short-legged critters.
We have stoats, weasels, and polecats around here. Great for keeping the rampant rabbit population down. There's even the very occasional sighting of Pine Martins!

Ferrets scare me!!!!

Teri;6091 wrote: Ferrets scare me!!!!

These wont, they're cuddly.
Though the hob does have a trick where he sinks his teeth into your chin and hangs down from it.
Very funny!!!

Mike

KUON;6131 wrote: Though the hob does have a trick where he sinks his teeth into your chin and hangs down from it.

I'm sure that would endear them to Teri. :yesnod:

David Aiketgate;6087 wrote: Nothing wrong with ferrets. I like all those long-bodied short-legged critters.
We have stoats, weasels, and polecats around here. Great for keeping the rampant rabbit population down. There's even the very occasional sighting of Pine Martins!

True story apparently:
A group of schoolchildren were being taken around the Scottish Gamefair, sometime in the sixties. They came to the pinemarten enclosure at about feeding time. The fare was eggs.
The young teacher was appalled and heard to shout to a nearby Keeper 'Help,
those polecats are eating the poor pinemartens eggs'.

You can imagine the giggles from the country bred schoolkids.

Mike

KUON;6134 wrote: True story apparently:
A group of schoolchildren were being taken around the Scottish Gamefair, sometime in the sixties. They came to the pinemarten enclosure at about feeding time. The fare was eggs.
The young teacher was appalled and heard to shout to a nearby Keeper 'Help,
those polecats are eating the poor pinemartens eggs'.

You can imagine the giggles from the country bred schoolkids.

Mike

Very rare, Pine Martin eggs!:dunno:

Oooh oooh, so did they manage to save the Pinemartens eggs? :dunno:

David Aiketgate;6137 wrote: Very rare, Pine Martin eggs!:dunno:

Erm!
Pine Marten!!!

Mike

CJJ;6133 wrote: I'm sure that would endear them to Teri. :yesnod:

You ever had a parrot try to bite your finger off??
It doesn't just tickle!
The worst part is having the nurse convulse with a fit of the giggles when she is trying to stitch up the ragged ends.

Mike

I used to keep / work Ferrets & go for very early walks with my Lurcher as a young un :whistle:

I used to love putting my hand into the hutch where my favorite polcat had babies, when you removed it, you had five tiny polecats, each hanging onto a finger with needle like teeth!