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  1. Minkenry
    I love and admire mink for the same reason most of you hate them. Mink are AMAZING predators! This is a video compilation I put together of amazing videos of wild mink doing some pretty amazing things! This video will leave you hating or loving mink even more than you currently do! https://youtu.be/3NBJ5NEMrc8
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    Can anyone buy a mink over there, are they sold to the public as pets like some ferrets have become over here ? No they aren't readily available like pet ferrets. You need some special connections to get a mink. I'm great full for that because there would be so many people getting mink thinking they are cute like a ferret, and then have no clue how to train and care for it properly. Mink really are a high maintenance pet! NOT a good pet for the vast majority of people!
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    LOL yeah sorry. I've been sick for the last few days, and I narrated this while sick lol. I also figured out how to turn up the volume on my video program, so I should finally have louder narrations!
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    Yeah, Onsa does great while hunting brown rats with my adult mink Rio. They've caught quite a few together, and Onsa is very respectful of the mink, even when the mink is killing or carrying a rat right in front of her. Once Onsa even helped the mink who had the rat by the tail, and she reached in and carefully crushed the rat's head, then let go so the mink could have it :-)
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    Here's a little video I put together showing my mink and pointer lurcher pup interacting and swimming together. I also show how my lurcher tries to catch muskrats. https://youtu.be/k7lqs4V7DCo
  6. Minkenry
    So today I went on a walk with my pointer lurcher pup Onsa and my baby mink Fang, just like we do every day. I took them to a beautiful lake near my house. I know this lake very well, so I know just about every muskrat den on the lake. This makes it is a great place to take the baby mink, because I can pick the mink up when we get near a muskrat den, to prevent a potential problem. My little mink Fang is only 15 weeks old, so she’s still quite young, and just starting to get to the age where she can actually start hunting more than just mouse sized prey. However, she is nowhere CLOSE to being
  7. Minkenry
    So today I went on a walk with my pointer lurcher pup Onsa and my baby mink Fang, just like we do every day. I took them to a beautiful lake near my house. I know this lake very well, so I know just about every muskrat den on the lake. This makes it is a great place to take the baby mink, because I can pick the mink up when we get near a muskrat den, to prevent a potential problem. My little mink Fang is only 15 weeks old, so she’s still quite young, and just starting to get to the age where she can actually start hunting more than just mouse sized prey. However, she is nowhere CLOSE to being
  8. Minkenry
    Thanks
  9. Minkenry
    A few weeks ago I got me a new mink kit who I named Fang. Fang and my pointer lurcher Onsa have become the best of buddies!
  10. Minkenry
    A few weeks ago I got me a new mink kit who I named Fang. Fang and my pointer lurcher Onsa have become the best of buddies! https://youtu.be/k4Yn1u3CigU
  11. Minkenry
    Most definitely! Also, she doesn't look like she'll be even a little bit gun shy! Just a couple days ago there were some kids lighting off fireworks near where I wanted to train Onsa. Rather than leaving to a different spot to train, I thought I'd see how she'd do around the fireworks. She took notice of all the noise, looking intently in the direction of the fire works, but she didn't let it interfere with her blind sit and stay, or her trailing ability. It was just business as usual, with a little extra noise. Pretty dang good for a 4 month old pup who's never heard gun shots or fireworks be
  12. Minkenry
    you ever trained any apbt 's for hunting , as ive read that there used alot on wild pigs in your country . I've trained 3, but not for hunting pigs. Just feral cats, raccoons, and opossums. Some say they have no nose, but I disagree. If you teach them they get to wrestle with a hide or kill something at the end of a trail, they become very determined trackers. They may not have a natural ability to follow a trail like a hound does, but they have enough drive and desire to make them want to trail, if they understand the end result for doing so.
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    Thanks for your complements guys, I am VERY pleased with my pup! I don't believe I deserve as much credit as I'm getting, as this little lurcher really is a an amazing dog to work with! It amazes me how so many good traits have ended up in one dog! She seems just as smart and easy to train as some of the border collies I've trained to be cow dogs, and she's a complete natural with her nose, reminding me of a Vizsla I once worked with! I don't think I could be happier with how this dog is turning out! She really is a pleasure to work with, and makes me look better than I deserve
  14. Minkenry
    Not trying to be rude, but you guys can't breath on an animal without your government's permission. It's a crying shame what the liberals have done to your country! I fear we are quickly headed the same direction!
  15. Minkenry
    Here's a little story to go with my video.... I breed rats in my garage for training the Mink and selling to feed snakes and stuff like that, and Onsa goes with me in the garage all the time, so she knows they are in there. One day I took Onsa out in the front yard while I was playing with one of my new baby mink. Onsa started running back and forth in the garden all excited like I had hidden something for her to find. She had her head down and was sniffing intently with her nose as she ran around in the garden. Finally she ended up at the garage sniffing along the bottom of the sliding do
  16. Minkenry
    My pointer lurcher Onsa (3/8 racing greyhound, 3/8 American staghound, 1/8 saluki, and 1/8 English pointer) was a little over 3 months old when I filmed this. She's coming along quite nicely in my opinion.... https://youtu.be/0lCp_atYHf8
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    Yeah, for the last several months I've actually been saving and freezing any extra fat trimmings from chicken, fatty domestic rabbits, ducks, etc. I've butchered for mink or human consumption, so that I would have it for my dog when I got one. I've been feeding her small chunks of that every now and then, to help increase the fat content of her diet. Do you think I should increase the amount and frequency of giving her these chunks of fat?
  18. Minkenry
    Ok great, so I'll cut out offering kibble throughout the day and only feed her during the two meal times morning and night. I'll also increase the amount of meat I feed her in each meal.
  19. Minkenry
    I am feeding mostly muskrat, with an occasional meal of beef, and a few junks of chicken fat or skin added every now and then. I feed the whole muskrat, meat, bone, liver, kidneys, etc. minus the pelt, stomach, and intestines. Muskrat meat is a rich red meat that has a good amount of fat, and lots of protein. Muskrats are a clean and mostly vegetarian, much more like a rabbit than an actual rat. I freeze it for over a month to kill of any potential parasites, just to be safe. This is the nutritional content of raw muskrat meat... http://www.nutritionvalue.org/Game_meat,_raw,_muskrat_nutrit
  20. Minkenry
    Also, my dog perfectly fits the description of a dog at an ideal body weight..... "How do you know if your dog is too fat or thin? You should be able to easily feel your dog's ribs and even see the outline of the last few floating ribs at the end of the ribcage that attaches to the vertebrae of the spine closest to the hips. You should not be able to see ALL the ribs, or the hip bones, or the vertebrae of the spine, just the outline of the last few floating ribs. If you stand above your dog, he should have a definite waist between his hips and ribcage. Remember that dogs are built differentl
  21. Minkenry
    Also, my dog perfectly fits the description of a dog at an ideal body weight..... "How do you know if your dog is too fat or thin? You should be able to easily feel your dog's ribs and even see the outline of the last few floating ribs at the end of the ribcage that attaches to the vertebrae of the spine closest to the hips. You should not be able to see ALL the ribs, or the hip bones, or the vertebrae of the spine, just the outline of the last few floating ribs. If you stand above your dog, he should have a definite waist between his hips and ribcage. Remember that dogs are built differen
  22. Minkenry
    She's been wormed and gets fed raw twice a day, morning and night, and has an unlimited access to high quality kibble through out the day and night. Trust me, she's as fat as she can get at this stage. That's just how she's built. I guarantee you I feed her just as good or better than you feed your dogs.
  23. Minkenry
    I was in North Central New Mexico near the Carson National Forest.
  24. Minkenry
    On May 6th I drove down to New Mexico to pick up a 11 week old lurcher pup who I named Onsa (which means "fast runner" in the Omaha Native American language). Onsa is 1/8 English Pointer, 1/8 saluki, 3/8 hot blood, and 3/8 coyote dog from the Cherry blood line (the "Cherry" line of coyote dogs is mostly cold blood greyhound with a little bit of deer hound way back in the blood line). So far I have been very pleased with my little pointer lurcher! Her mother "Yin" is 1/4 hot blood, 1/4 coyote dog, 1/4 saluki, and 1/4 English Pointer, and has retained a lot of good pointer qualities
  25. Minkenry
    Awesome! Good to know. I was thinking of trying her on brown rats around 6-7 months anyway, so we'll see what she's like by then. Regardless of when I start her on rats, I'll make sure she gets plenty of experience on kangaroo rats before I show her any brown rats, since kangaroo rats don't bite. Kangaroo rats are what I like to start my baby mink on, since there is no chance of a bad experience, giving the mink a nice little confidence boost before starting it on anything that can bite. I'll be getting a new little mink kit soon, so in a couple months when that mink kit is old enough to start
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