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  1. Minkenry
    I've got a buddy who hunts with me real regular who's doing this. He's got a lurcher, and had a terrier that worked with both my and his mink. He just got a new jagdterrier pup that he will be raising up with his current mink. His other "working terrier" was an American bred piece of crap "Decker terrier" that I now like to call a "DeckCUR terrier". I've LITERALLY had boarder collies that were gamer and had more prey drive than that little cur! The piece of crap wouldn't even kill rats without flinching! So my buddy sold the dog to someone who wanted a pet, and got a 8 week old jagdterrier fro
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    There's no problem getting my mink back, that's pretty easy. Especially with this mink! She kind of like a little dog, she wanders off hunting, then comes back looking for me if she wanders too far. She comes back out of the hole after every kill, no problem. The problem is finding her kill so it doesn't go to waist. So the locators aren't water proof? Someone told me they are..... could it be a special model he was describing, or was he possibly mistaken?
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    She has no problem killing what she's caught, and she has no desire to eat it either. Just kills it, and comes out covered in blood, and wanting to look for another. I hate wasting the muskrat, so I then try to dig them out when possible. This is a total pain in the butt, because I have to dig up the ENTIRE den system searching for her kill! If I had a locator, I would be able to know where the kill was being made, because she would be stationary while she was making the kill. I'm hoping this would make it easier for me to find the dead muskrat. Normally I just train my mink to bring their pre
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    I'm not sure what to say my budget is. If I could find one for under 100 pounds, I could probably come up with the cash pretty quick. If it's much more than than that, then I'd have to save up for a while.
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    Hello all. It is the beginning of the muskrat season, and my wife and I were hit with a tragedy. My hunting mink That'e' was hit by a car and killed. Now I'm stuck with a broken heart, no mink to hunt with, and to make matters worse, the muskrat season just started. I have a half trained mink who can kill muskrats without a problem, but she hasn't been trained to cache. Training a mink to cache typically takes several months, and the muskrat season will be half over before I have a mink ready for caching. I decided to hunt anyway, and try to net the muskrats as she flushes them, but she keeps
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    Yeah, I love his size! He's about the size of a female ranch mink, allowing him to fit down smaller holes and hunt brown rats, but has the power of a buck, giving him a noticeable advantage over larger quarry. He's actually a captive raised mink from wild ancestry. Most of the mink I've hunted with in the past were pure ranch mink. Ranch mink are bred for size, and are roughly twice the size of wild mink. This little guy is actually pretty small, even for a wild mink, making him the perfect size for what I want!
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    Thank you all for your kind comments. I'm very happy with how this little mink is doing! He really is a great animal to work with!
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    The book is a full 244 pages on 22 x 30 centimeter paper, so it's a lot of reading! In the book there are a couple chapters talking about mink in general, their habits in the wild, and their temperament in captivity. In the next couple chapters, I then go over the story of minkeny, telling how it all got started with its progress up until today. The remaining 9 chapters go over how to tame, train, care for, and hunt with a mink. If you want to order my book, the least expensive way is to send an e-mail to "thenewsportofminkenry@mail.com" and request a copy of the book. How muc
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    This particular mink has never had the opportunity to hunt in trees. He climbs trees sometimes, but he's never had any prey try to escape him up into the trees. I have had other mink capture brown rats in the trees, and I have a friend who tells me his mink chased a grey squirrel 12 feet up into a tree, and captured it. Mink can climb, but not near as good as squirrels, so it surprises me that they can capture a squirrel in it's own element. I've read about a people seeing wild mink catch squirrels in the trees, but I've never seen a mink do much more than catch a rat in the tree
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    Thanks guys
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    This is something I've wanted to catch on film for a LONG TIME! I Sure wish the glare hadn't messed it up! http://youtu.be/pzdK8v-UHd4?list=UUaE309xZTS4XdecZSoaYzFg
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    Yes, we are lucky..... for the time being. There are many fighting to take our rights away, and if we keep headed in the direction we are headed, it wont be long before our government is also telling us what dogs we can and can't own, and taking away our freedom to hunt as we choose. I just hope a change is made soon, so we can keep the few freedoms we still have!
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    Thank you very much! That was an EXTREMELY helpful and educational link!!!
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    Cool, so that would be why boarder collies are a favorite part of the lurcher mix. Because they wouldn't take as much from the greyhound's speed as other breeds, plus they have LOTS of brains and endurance. That makes sense. So when you say "feet" I take it greyhounds have soft feet? And by "coat" I'm guessing more insulation from the cold, right? I'm not sure what you mean by "thickness". Is it thick skin, bone, muscle??? When you say a fast dog is "not necessary" what quarry are you speaking of? Hares are pretty freaking fast, and I've never seen a dog get close to catching one! I'
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    I've never had a running dog in my life, so I don't know much about them other than what I've read online, and we all know how reliable random comments online can be! So I came to this page hoping to find some experts on the subject. While out hunting rabbits and rock squirrels in the desert with my pet mink, we see a lot of hares. This species of hare is called a "black tailed jack rabbit" even though they are really hares, not rabbits. I would love to have a dog to run on these hares, but I don't know where to begin. I hear lots about you guys using lurchers, and a few people using pure
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    Thanks for your help. It is VERY appreciated! :-)
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    I'm from a falconry background, so I know a little about telemetry, but nothing really about ferret finders. I assume the technology has some similarities, but that's just an assumption. I've never had too much of a need for either pieces of equipment with my mink, as my mink come when I call, and retrieve the game they've killed under ground. However, when hunting in thick brush, it can be quite difficult to keep track of my mink. I can always call my mink back, but that takes my mink off of the trail it's following, thus disrupting the hunt. It would be nice to be able to keep track of my mi
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    I know you guys will laugh at me, but this is what I use when hunting with my trained mink. It's just a small plastic pet carrier in a back pack. This set up is ultra light, very convenient, inexpensive, and it works better than what I've seen most ferreters use. Trying to run jump and climb with a box hanging from a shoulder strap isn't very easy, but with a backpack it's as easy as if you are wearing nothing, except when you're working your way through thick tree's or brush, then it's easier to carry the back pack like you do your old fashioned carry boxes.
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    I am in the western state of Utah. My wife is from Central America, in the country of El Salvador.
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    Now THIS was a hunt I wish we caught on film!!! My wife Maggie and I took That’e’ to a local park that has brown rats living in the bank of the stream flowing through the park. I released That’e’ at the far end of the stream, farthest from where the rat colonies were living. I wanted to let That’e’ use his nose to seek out the rats himself, rather than just put him down right next to the holes I figured were most likely to have rats in them. When released, That’e’ quickly ran to a drainage pipe sticking out of the stream bank, and slipped inside. He was acting all jumpy and wild, stic
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    The book is a full 244 pages on 22 x 30 centimeter paper, so it's a lot of reading! In the book there are a couple chapters talking about mink in general, their habits in the wild, and their temperament in captivity. In the next couple chapters, I then go over the story of minkeny, telling how it all got started with its progress up until today. The remaining 9 chapters go over how to tame, train, care for, and hunt with a mink. If you want to order my book, the least expensive way is to send an e-mail to "thenewsportofminkenry@mail.com" and request a copy of the book.
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    Actually I don't. She almost always comes hunting with me She's only missed one hunt since we've been married! She even caught a rat once while we were hunting! She stepped on it's tail to hold it down and yelled for me to hurry and come get it She is the perfect wife for me! By the way, both muskrats in this picture were still alive. I'd caught them by hand, and she wanted to take this picture to freak her sister out lol
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    Here's some pics from the hunt. These are the pictures that go along with the video above. This was our little camp site. And here are some pictures from after the hunt... After sleeping on my lap while I watched TV my wife took him and they both fell asleep on the couch....
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    Here's the video from this weekend's hunting trip...
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    My hunting story of the day.... Today the forecast was for rain, and lots of it! I was determined to not waist the weekend, and just go hunting anyway. I woke up in the morning at 7:00 am and looked at the hourly forecast to see when there was a possible chance of a break in the storm. It said that there was a 30% chance of rain at 8:00 am, a 40% chance of rain at 9:00 am, a 60% chance of rain at 10:00 and 11:00 am, and a 85%-100% chance of rain for every hour after that for the rest of the day. So I called my minkenry buddy Cade Pocock, because I knew he was always up for a hunting
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