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All good points above on minimum age, post op gap and trialling hob first. I use a vasectomised hob and typically have five to eight ferrets which are in a group most of the year. The one pain in the arse with v hobs is they behave exactly as fully intact hobs so from late winter to early summer they can be aggressive to castrated hobs. Second pain in the arse is they will lose the urge at some point so it's a treadmill of getting the next done and ready in time. I find it's essential to have an additional cage which separates the v hob. Actually works ok as he can then serve one ji

Sorry to hear this. You clearly gave them the best opportunity. It never fails to amaze me how ferrets are so incredibly tough, recover quickly from bites and abscesses, rarely get ill but on some occasions fade out almost overnight. Best wishes in tracking down a new team Only suggestion I have is a long way for you but I know Essex ferret welfare in Ongar have quite a few at the moment and some are from working lines. You can find them on FB and website

You might find pointer crosses in the canicross community. Certainly very popular in European races

I have arranged to take a hob to the vet midday today. He started making audible wheezing noises when breathing yesterday and I can feel his chest is struggling. He's split from the other six as he's only been with me 7 days and I try to isolate new ferrets so hopefully he's not passed it onto the others

Bird flu is crossing into a range of mammals that's for sure. I read of several zoos where big cats and other mammals have died.

Hope the older ferrets survived. On rehydration I just used sachets from the chemist made up in water. Most of them hated it so I had to syringe it into their mouths. One hob loved the blackcurrant flavour and would drink it happily

Really sorry to read this.pretty sure there's nothing you could have done. I have only very rarely had unexplained death of a ferret and never a group. You'll probably know they can get a parvovirus "Aleutian disease". That's a potential In over 40 years I've only once had a whole group ill and one of the symptoms was a severe diarrhea, I had to syringe rehydration fluids into their mouths as they were very weak. Another high risk is human flu virus, I recently had a Jill (kept separate as she was not liked by the others ) die in 48 hours in the week I had a flu vaccine, maybe coi

Some good advice above and it looks like you've made a good start Definitely the traditional first aid of salt water every day then wound spray. After a few days that needs to stop, assuming it's not infected as the first aid is also killing some of the new tissue I use greyhound specific boots to keep out the mud (the racers use them for corn treatment) which fit much better than standard boots and have the added advantage the dogs hate walking in them so there's less impact. If you can get a cheap standard boot then I'd tape it on So hard to tell from a photo but my gut feelin

I imagine it would need to be a very specific role tied to a base and with a marriage partner at home. My friends who've been in the forces all moved several times and all had overseas postings and combat tours. One is a boxer dog fanatic and was keeping three in married quarters, he did five tours in Iraq and Afghan so a lot of stress on the family

Thanks for responding, and that's quite pack you have there

Great filming techniques and quality. And I've learnt something . I've always preferred albinos as they are easier to see, now 56 years after I got my first ferrets, it turns out I could be tying bright ribbons to their collars . Interested why the dogs need GPS collars when rabbiting? Routine when hunting in NZ or do they wander off?

Sorry to read you lost two ferrets

Loving the optimism. Agree there was a time prior to RVHD when rabbits had less sensitivity to myxi. They'd often still get it but survive. Let's hope this type of tolerance builds to RVHD Where I am in East Anglia I see a few pockets with reasonable numbers. Although where I have permission, bonanza days are gone and we catch 20% of even five years ago. Interestingly numbers typically build in summer and then catastrophically collapse but with no carcasses seen. Unfortunately some areas like ThetFord forest seem not to show any signs of recovery

Good to know as that's less than an hour from me