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Anyone know what animal this is that I saw on way home today?

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  • #2
    recedite
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    That's your basic domesticated ferret.


  • #3
    SillyMangoX
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    Looks like an albino ferret to me!


  • #4
    bobbysands81
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    Cheers folks, would you say it's someone's pet? Would it be safe to handle?


  • #5
    therewillbe
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    bobbysands81 wrote: »
    Cheers folks, would you say it's someone's pet? Would it be safe to handle?

    NO:eek:These things will tear your hand apart like knife through butter.


  • #6
    Capt'n Midnight
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    bobbysands81 wrote: »
    Apologies about the link to twitter but don't know how to post the pic directly.

    Weasel? Stoat? Mink? Ferret?
    A handy rule of thumb

    A weasel is weasly recognised but a stoat is stoatly different



    would have been nice if it was a pine martin


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  • #7
    Lemon_Drop
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    They are usually kept for hunting rabbits. They put nets over the holes where the rabbits live ,the ferret is put down the rabbit holes and the rabbits bolt when they see the ferret and get caught in the nets.

    He must have strayed....Whoever owns him could live miles away..........in recent years some people just keep them as pets.

    They don't bite if they are used to being handled.
    But I was would be wary of catching them, their teeth are like needles.


  • #8
    Kinzig
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    Thats a ferret , sometimes when lads are using them down holes to push rabbits out they "stick", which means they make a kill down the hole and wont come out till after they have fed and then slept, so he could have been a lost ferret that would have been used for hunting..


  • #9
    Alun
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    bobbysands81 wrote: »
    Weasel? Stoat?
    There are no weasels in Ireland. What people here call weasels are actually stoats.

    http://homepage.tinet.ie/~edrice/mammals/stoat.htm


  • #10
    Rigol
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    he...hey this is a private residence..maan
    nice marmot


  • #11
    carav10
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    That wasn't around East Cork by any chance..? I know someone whose albino ferret escaped a few months back. Wouldn't attempt to catch it, if it's been used for hunting then it definitely won't be a nice friendly little fella.


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  • #12
    ferret1
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    hi


  • #13
    Cherry Blossom
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    Question appears to have been answered.


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