All about animalsFacts, stories and anecdotes . re really two kinds of ferrets,the one a beautiful creamy-white creature,the other larger, fiercer, and with a gooddeal of black in its coat. This last one isa cross between a true ferret and a pole-cat, and is often used in rat-catching, whilethe smaller species only in § The game-keeper carries the ferret to therabbit-warren in a small bag in his out-side pocket, and when taken out it is muz-zled. It would never do to let the ferretrun loose down in the burrows, for it wouldkill the first rabbit it came across, and couldnot be c
All about animalsFacts, stories and anecdotes . re really two kinds of ferrets,the one a beautiful creamy-white creature,the other larger, fiercer, and with a gooddeal of black in its coat. This last one isa cross between a true ferret and a pole-cat, and is often used in rat-catching, whilethe smaller species only in § The game-keeper carries the ferret to therabbit-warren in a small bag in his out-side pocket, and when taken out it is muz-zled. It would never do to let the ferretrun loose down in the burrows, for it wouldkill the first rabbit it came across, and couldnot be coaxed out until it had had a meal. For this reason they are taken intothe field hungry, so as to keep them active. In rabbit-hunting the burrowholes are covered with a slack net, and when the ferret is turned into theground it begins at once to chase the inhabitants through all the wind-ings and twistings, until the bunnies, in terror, fly out of their holes only toget tangled up in the net. When the ferret comes out it is put back in THE MINK. A ferret that did not return from one of the burrows was given up for lostby its owner. A week later a servant of the manor house (which, by the way,was a mile and a half from the field) found the little ferret on the kitchen door-step, very cold and hungry, patiently waiting to be let in. THE MINK. The Mink is another little animal which is famous for its fur. It livesnear lakes and rivers, and was once thought to belong to the otter family; butit is really a weasel In many placesit is spoken of as the water swims well and readily. It isfound throughout Northern Europeand America, near the rivers in thespring and the lakes in the the rest of its family, it is afierce fighter and a might)- hunterEverything of its size in the forestflees before it. The color of themink is dark brown, but it often va-ries many shades lighter. Hunters tell many curious sto-ries showing the cleverness of themink. In one distri
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