Wild Polecats

[tiger82 43]

right lads ,heres a question,how many of you have come across a truly wild polecat whilst ferreting , i see quite a few dead on the roadside & yes i would say they are wild polecats not escapees .especially around wales ,i had a right do ,i worked a big warren & ferrets bolted several rabbits into the nets ,after about half an hour my jill backed out the hole hissing tail stuck up like a scrubbing brush , stoat i thought ,i picked her up and the biggest polecat ive ever seen looked at me then shot back down the hole its head was huge i waited around for a good while but it never showed again ,, ?? cheers pete

Saw one too mate when I was younger about 15 years ago me and my mate went to a warren and put two albinos in a hob and a jill both come running out screaming and a little polecat popped its head out and that's the last we saw of it.

[budharley 945]

 

a got one in a purs net one day this whas a monster a toke him home and toke about three months be for a coud handil him my hob and him must have bean fighting in the hole the both were very mest up but he heald whell and a thot if a coude bread him with my jill and it workd then put him back in the wild fighting fit and very healthy so now ave got my on stok of semy wild polcats lovey looking things

what do you do with these semi wild polecats?

 

let me get this right you caught him in a purse net , tamed him ,mated him ,released him , and now have breeding stock . are you for real get some pics up or your talking shit

[dannyboy P 5]

Saw 2 in all my life, both in the west mids.One chaced my Jills out of a warren 5 years back. They refused to go back in after . Bloody great big thing really dark markings and the other came along the hedgerow in to a fox call out lamping last winter lol. Come within feet of us in the pickup then realised and done one !!!!!! Nice to see tho

[rob190364 2,593]

 

 

a got one in a purs net one day this whas a monster a toke him home and toke about three months be for a coud handil him my hob and him must have bean fighting in the hole the both were very mest up but he heald whell and a thot if a coude bread him with my jill and it workd then put him back in the wild fighting fit and very healthy so now ave got my on stok of semy wild polcats lovey looking things

what do you do with these semi wild polecats?

 

let me get this right you caught him in a purse net , tamed him ,mated him ,released him , and now have breeding stock . are you for real get some pics up or your talking shit

it only took three months....to tame a wild polecat.... :laugh:

 

just to add....... :laugh:

[Malt 379]

 

 

 

a got one in a purs net one day this whas a monster a toke him home and toke about three months be for a coud handil him my hob and him must have bean fighting in the hole the both were very mest up but he heald whell and a thot if a coude bread him with my jill and it workd then put him back in the wild fighting fit and very healthy so now ave got my on stok of semy wild polcats lovey looking things

 

what do you do with these semi wild polecats?

let me get this right you caught him in a purse net , tamed him ,mated him ,released him , and now have breeding stock . are you for real get some pics up or your talking shit

it only took three months....to tame a wild polecat.... :laugh:

 

just to add....... :laugh:

Tickled you that Rob?

[forest of dean redneck 11,183]

Seen one dead on side of the dual carriage way just outside Monmouth,stretched out it was a solid looking animal,way bigger than any ferret I've had,

Seen a another possible dead by symonds yat it was half size of the first one,more what I would call ferret sized.

[Guest thebigdog]

Rathlin island off the coast of ireland is full of wild looking ferrets .are they the same breed.

 

they are feral ferrets, they were released about 15 years ago to control the rabbit numbers, there is a population in north monaghan too

[rob190364 2,593]

 

 

 

 

a got one in a purs net one day this whas a monster a toke him home and toke about three months be for a coud handil him my hob and him must have bean fighting in the hole the both were very mest up but he heald whell and a thot if a coude bread him with my jill and it workd then put him back in the wild fighting fit and very healthy so now ave got my on stok of semy wild polcats lovey looking things

what do you do with these semi wild polecats?

let me get this right you caught him in a purse net , tamed him ,mated him ,released him , and now have breeding stock . are you for real get some pics up or your talking shit

it only took three months....to tame a wild polecat.... :laugh:

 

just to add....... :laugh:

Tickled you that Rob?

 

I'm just trying to imagine how the hell you'd go about it.....you have to handle a ferret to get it tame, right? so presumably to get a wild polecat tame you'd have to handle it with your bare hands? I must admit I'd quite like to see that, it would be f'ckin hillarious! Just out of interest Dayle, how did you get it out of the purse net?

 

One of two things has happened here, either the lad is bored/deluded/on the wind up and spouting shit, or what he's actually caught is just a ferret that's either escaped or been left by someone out ferreting that may have been out for a few weeks/months and has gone a bit wild.

 

I can categorically say that it was definitely not a wild polecat if he has tamed it in 3 months....or at all!!!!

[johnny boy68 11,725]

Ideation had a wild one there for a while, I'm not sure if he still as him there.

 

They're very skittish animals.

[rob190364 2,593]

Ideation had a wild one there for a while, I'm not sure if he still as him there.

 

They're very skittish animals.

I think she dumped him pal

[Ideation 8,216]

Aye I had a wild one for few months, i was rehabilitating, unhandleable, untameable .... Stood out from regular ferrets by its size, muscle tone and speed. Eventually it ripped its way out of the cage and escaped. I'm pretty sure it would have killed any Jill I tried to mate it with. It only ate flesh, it only came out at night.

[Rake aboot 4,929]

Aye I had a wild one for few months, i was rehabilitating, unhandleable, untameable .... Stood out from regular ferrets by its size, muscle tone and speed. Eventually it ripped its way out of the cage and escaped. I'm pretty sure it would have killed any Jill I tried to mate it with. It only ate flesh, it only came out at night.

 

 

So basically ,, it was Scottish ?

[Ideation 8,216]

 

 

Aye I had a wild one for few months, i was rehabilitating, unhandleable, untameable .... Stood out from regular ferrets by its size, muscle tone and speed. Eventually it ripped its way out of the cage and escaped. I'm pretty sure it would have killed any Jill I tried to mate it with. It only ate flesh, it only came out at night.

 

So basically ,, it was Scottish ?

Did I say it was ginger?

[Rake aboot 4,929]

[BORDERSCOT 3,816]

 

 

Aye I had a wild one for few months, i was rehabilitating, unhandleable, untameable .... Stood out from regular ferrets by its size, muscle tone and speed. Eventually it ripped its way out of the cage and escaped. I'm pretty sure it would have killed any Jill I tried to mate it with. It only ate flesh, it only came out at night.

 

So basically ,, it was Scottish ?

Did I say it was ginger?

 

 

You got any pics Jai....????