Minkenry 1,044 Posted January 4, 2017 Report Share Posted January 4, 2017 This is a pretty intense video I filmed a few weeks ago of my mink Fang getting a muskrat. At the end of the video I explain why I called the dog off when the muskrat was running. As an additional explanation, the reason I don't interfere with dispatching the muskrat is I have found that the more I interfere when the muskrat is still actively struggling, the greater the chance that the mink will get bitten. If the muskrat is still alive once it has stopped struggling, I then reach in and finish dispatching it. With Fang, this is rarely necessary, as the muskrat is usually stone dead once the struggle is over. I used to reach in and try to hurry the dispatching process as soon as I could get a hold of the muskrat (like how I always did as a falconer when my bird captured prey), but I learned through experience that doing this increased the chance of the mink being bitten. If I just stayed out of the way and let the mink do what it was born to do, the mink will typically kill the muskrat without getting so much as a scratch. https://youtu.be/M5GwKWq8n8g Quote Link to post
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