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found this on the net, and i dont agree with what is going on in this video, i think it gives ferrets and there owners a bad name. im not saying ferrets are horrid animals, as some of u know i have two of my own. but letting your ferret kill a mouse in your house for the hell of it, evern though you could have easily caught it is just plane horrid in my opinion. but this is just my opinion.

ferret vs mouse

 

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Is it really that bad, we've had cats play with mice before killing them and I must say that when I've been feeding the Missus's horses and i've found her feedbins full of mice i've thrown a Jack russel in.

Ok I can't see the need to film it but really its no worse than putting a ferret down a rabbit hole. Presumably it was a young ferret as it didn't really know what it was doing and the owner was presumably educating it to live food.

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that smy thought exactly cranners, if the mice were a serious problem i would agree with ferrets, or terriers being used, but its a tame mouse and is obviously causing no damage, for christ sake it isnt even scared of the ferret.the ferret looks fully grown and an adult, and it acts like it has never killed anything in its life, so it hasnt got the killer instinct.

and i know that mine would have killed it in and instant, because its what they do, i just disagree with the deliberate staging of it.

 

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I agree, pointless waste of life really, and it does send out the wrong message about ferrets and their owners.

 

I have put a few vids on here of shooting animals, but those were being shot anyway, and for food or pest control. That mouse could have been picked up and moved somewhere, no need to get the ferret at it.

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Years ago when I kept ferrets I had a call from a friend of a friend that was bothered by mice in his garage.

 

He bred St Bernard dogs, and kept the dog food in sacks in the garage.

 

Anyways, I took a couple of polecat jills to the garage, and sure enough some of the sacks had been nibbled, with the contents coming out on the floor.

 

So I let the ferrets go, and after 10 minutes of nothing happening a mouse strolled out from between the sacks. On seeing us watching it ran like greased lightening up a coat which was hanging from a nail. At the top of the coat was the typical garage shelf, with lots of glass jars filled with nails and screws and such.

 

One of the jills couldn't believe her luck, and set off in hot pursuit up the coat, and then along the shelf.

 

Unfortunately, as she streaked along the shelf she dislodged various jars, which fell, smashing onto the floor.

 

And that was it. The mouse was never caught, and I retrieved the ferrets and left the garage owner to brush up the mess on the floor ;):lol::lol:

 

I never did get invited back for a 2nd attempt :good::lol:;)

 

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Looks like a young ferret that has just learnt to kill.

Not on though really is it. :lol:

 

Better to take it out and introduce it to some ferreting, not kill a domestic mouse. :good:

 

Frank.

 

Years ago when I kept ferrets I had a call from a friend of a friend that was bothered by mice in his garage.

 

He bred St Bernard dogs, and kept the dog food in sacks in the garage.

 

Anyways, I took a couple of polecat jills to the garage, and sure enough some of the sacks had been nibbled, with the contents coming out on the floor.

 

So I let the ferrets go, and after 10 minutes of nothing happening a mouse strolled out from between the sacks. On seeing us watching it ran like greased lightening up a coat which was hanging from a nail. At the top of the coat was the typical garage shelf, with lots of glass jars filled with nails and screws and such.

 

One of the jills couldn't believe her luck, and set off in hot pursuit up the coat, and then along the shelf.

 

Unfortunately, as she streaked along the shelf she dislodged various jars, which fell, smashing onto the floor.

 

And that was it. The mouse was never caught, and I retrieved the ferrets and left the garage owner to brush up the mess on the floor :lol::lol::)

 

I never did get invited back for a 2nd attempt :lol:;);)

 

Don

 

:):lol: Not surprised :lol::lol:

 

Frank.

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I agree, pointless waste of life really, and it does send out the wrong message about ferrets and their owners.

 

I have put a few vids on here of shooting animals, but those were being shot anyway, and for food or pest control. That mouse could have been picked up and moved somewhere, no need to get the ferret at it.

i read your text with great amusment in the way you seem to justify killing things

for food chain or vermin control,it dosnt matter they all die

 

 

that mouse could have been picked up and moved somewhere!! :good::lol:

 

mibby we all should move foxes rabbits etc not shoot them as they will die a pointless death ;)

 

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kirky :lol:

 

 

 

 

 

i think you are a bit soft you lot its a mouse who cares !!!

a ferret or weesle would do the same in the wild and they do many times a day

get over it, it happens its life and how it is imo!

cheers kirky

ps i could see the film it wouldnt load

 

 

here we go. ;)

where do we go mossy?

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i think you are a bit soft you lot its a mouse who cares !!!

a ferret or weesle would do the same in the wild and they do many times a day

get over it, it happens its life and how it is imo!

cheers kirky

ps i could see the film it wouldnt load

Bait well officially taken...

 

In the wild the mouse would have its wits about it and not have just been placed on laminate flooring which is slippy. It would be disorientated and scared then some ****wit decides to set a ferret on it that doesn't know how to kill properly. It is also in the open. No weasel in the wild would survive if it took that long to kill its quarry as it would get away if it didn't kill it quickly and the weasel would starve. That video was pre-planned and the person that made it is severley messed up in the head. :good:

 

FM :lol:

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i think you are a bit soft you lot its a mouse who cares !!!

a ferret or weesle would do the same in the wild and they do many times a day

get over it, it happens its life and how it is imo!

cheers kirky

ps i could see the film it wouldnt load

Bait well officially taken...

 

In the wild the mouse would have its wits about it and not have just been placed on laminate flooring which is slippy. It would be disorientated and scared then some ****wit decides to set a ferret on it that doesn't know how to kill properly. It is also in the open. No weasel in the wild would survive if it took that long to kill its quarry as it would get away if it didn't kill it quickly and the weasel would starve. That video was pre-planned and the person that made it is severley messed up in the head. :good:

 

FM :lol:

as i said video wouldnt load havent seen it couldnt say

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i can see some you think im simple or wotever but i come from a family of farmers and have been brought up mibby a bit on the old fashioned ways

 

i can remember my granfather telling me of the days when he left the shotgun buy the gate post at the field of barley that the crows were hammering and whoever was pasing picked it up and fired a shot or 2 and put them off!!

and the days lambs were castrated with your teeth bull calfs castrated buy cutting ther balls out with a knife

and no jags to numb the pain

if all this is wrong how did they manage in the old days and how did we become so soft ?

oh how it makes me wonder !!!

cheers kirky

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and the days lambs were castrated with your teeth bull calfs castrated buy cutting ther balls out with a knife

 

 

Hi Colin.

please remind me not to argue with you. :lol:

 

did jimmy boyle work on your farm.

whos jimmy boyle mark???

 

i think i should have been born 50 year before my time !!!

people realy iritate me sometimes

 

but some top people on here tho :good:

cheers kirky

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Getting back on track,it was a pet mouse and a pet ferret...........would you set a pet dog on a pet cat?

 

If you have the ability to prevent pain in an animal would you do it?

pain dont no as they say hd theres no gain without pain as to the saying

 

but i think yes your rite no animal needs to suffer any more than it has to !!

cheers kirky

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