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    I hears a super crazy story once from a guy from your side of the pond who was visiting to see some American falconry. He told me he found a little baby mink running with its mother along a stream. He ran and caught it, then was chased by the mother back to his vehicle. He drove home and put the little mink in with his working ferrets. He came back a few hours later and both his ferrets were dead. He said he killed the little mink and never tried that sort of thing again! I'm actually very surprised that a mink kit that young would kill one, let alone two ferrets! Most mink that young have tro
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    Did the ferret survive, or did it die?
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    I typically try to stick to only one or two mink, but this year I lost a really good one while out hunting, so I decided that since I had to start over again, I might as well go big and start a full on breeding program. I literally spent a couple months testing a bunch of mink until I had the best 4 males and 4 females narrowed down, and now I'm going to start a hunting line of mink.
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    I love where I live now. It's an excellent location with LOTS of muskrat hunting and some fishing all close by. I lost the red mink with the unfortunate circumstance that I assume you are referring to.
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    Thanks! I'm glad you enjoy them!
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    Thanks! Yeah, she's a great dog.
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    The mink in this video are brand new, so they aren't totally trained yet. I actually got them for a breeding project I'm finally starting, and I'm testing them to make sure they are all good solid hunters before I actually breed them. The youngest of these mink is almost 2, and the oldest is almost 4 years old, and they had no training or handling before I got them. Here's a video showing a tame, fully trained mink I used to have ( I unfortunately lost this one while hunting)
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    Bitten by the rats or the dog? I've never had a problem with the dog biting the mink, but of course the rats get them from time to time. It's actually surprisingly rare for the mink to get a noticeable injury from any of the rats, muskrats, or squirrels we hunt, but of course it does happen sometimes. The good mink learn from their bites and get better at hunting while avoiding injury. Soft mink show their true colors after too many bites and become annoyingly cautious.
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    The dog in my video is obviously not a terrier, she's a lurcher, but she's ratting like a terrier so I thought I'd post this video on here.
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    Unfortunately, coyotes are also hard to find around here. Too many people shooting and trapping them keeps their numbers down, and more importantly keeps the coyotes smart. It's hard to even see a coyote around here, let alone get a chance at catching one. I'd like to try her on a coyote if we get the chance. Also I'd like to try her on foxes. She's ran a couple foxes, but only once was it in an area where she had any real chance at catching it. Hopefully we'll get one soon, if we can find the fox in an area open enough to give Onsa a real chance at running it before it disappears in the brush
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    Yes, she's caught a few jack rabbits (our local hare species) and cottontail rabbits both. Unfortunately our local rabbit and hare populations both crashed the very next season after getting my dog. The year she was a pup there were jackrabbits and cottontails EVERYWHERE, and now that she is old enough to run them they are few and far between. So all the close spots have close to no rabbits, making it so I have to drive for about an hour to get to anywhere with a decent number of rabbits to run, and even in the "good spots" the numbers aren't near as good as they used to be. So now I've got th
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    My dog Onsa is 41% staghound (a breed similar to a greyhound that is bred for hunting coyotes), 37% racing greyhound, 13% English pointer, and 9% Saluki.
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    It's just an albino mink. Almost all animals have the potential to be albino. American mink aren't capable of producing offspring with any other member of the weasel family. Also, domestic ranch mink come in just about any color you can imagine. White, black, red, grey, yellow, spotted, stripes down their backs, grizzled colors, all kinds of stuff!
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    Thanks :-)
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    LOL Mink are totally illegal to keep in France, and yet there are more pet mink in France than any other country I'm aware of! They take their mink out in public, and go to a regular vet, and everything. They just tell everyone that it's a ferret, and no one questions it. I think if you got an albino mink, it would be especially difficult for anyone to tell. I had an albino mink for a while, and I once had some chap from the UK get online and argue with me for quite sometime, claiming that the animal in my video was really a white ferret, and I was just trying to get attention claiming it was
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    Yeah, it's really quite a shame. I could see you guys having a lot of fun going from fishing, to ratting, to catching the invasive grey squirrels. They take a lot more patients and talent than ferrets do, but if you have the time and are willing to make the effort, they really are a blast to hunt and fish with! If you're just bolting rabbits, the ferret would be better for the job because the mink would make far too many kills underground. But if you're wanting to do a little rabbit hunting on the side, mixed in with hunting coots, fishing, ratting, etc. mink really can be made into quite the
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    I'm not sure what the laws are on your side of the pond when it comes to mink.
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    I've had a couple ferrets a long time ago, but I stick to just mink now. They are far more versatile than ferrets, and fit what I want to accomplish better than a ferret can. If I lived where you do, with large numbers of burrowing rabbits, then I could see value in having a ferret. But where I live we only rabbit hunt on occasions, so not worth getting a ferret for that job specifically.
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    Thanks! I'm glad you enjoy my videos.
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    Thanks, yeah Brocc is a pretty cool mink! Unusually friendly for a mink that's for sure! He's also a surprisingly bold hunter. He just goes in and grabs whatever he's after! No fear, no hesitation! And then he turns around and is friendly with humans like he was hand raised or something! Pretty unique for a mink who wasn't handled until almost a year old!
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    The last muskrat was caught fully alive and completely uninjured. I just grabbed it by it's tail as it tried to swim away. Neither the mink or dog touched it before hand. Re-watching the video actually made me nervous, as the rat was trying to swing up and bite me several times when I wasn't looking. It REALLY HURTS when they do that! I have a finger that still doesn't work quite right from the last time that happened. Muskrats are actually pretty clean animals and mostly vegetarian. They are much like a rabbit that swims, rather being like a nasty brown or black rat that most people thin
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    Yeah, I don't praise her until I actually see the animal. I don't want to reward her until I actually know she's found something. Like you said, I don't want to encourage false marking.
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