Ferrets : their management in health and disease with remarks on their legal status . CLIFFORDS PATENT TRAP 121 A wire trap, invented by Mr. AlfredClifford, of Hawley, to catch rats, stoats,weasels, and other vermin, can be used forcatching a laid-up ferret by placing itin front of the hole. The description,supplied by the inventor himself, is asfollows:— It has a trap door in centreof floor, and when set is perfectly leveland cannot be noticed. The bait onlyrequires to be laid on the floor of the animal puts its weighton the hinged floor the doors close. Ithas a clear space r
Ferrets : their management in health and disease with remarks on their legal status . CLIFFORDS PATENT TRAP 121 A wire trap, invented by Mr. AlfredClifford, of Hawley, to catch rats, stoats,weasels, and other vermin, can be used forcatching a laid-up ferret by placing itin front of the hole. The description,supplied by the inventor himself, is asfollows:— It has a trap door in centreof floor, and when set is perfectly leveland cannot be noticed. The bait onlyrequires to be laid on the floor of the animal puts its weighton the hinged floor the doors close. Ithas a clear space right through, therebycausing no suspicion whatever. Stronglymade in galvanised iron and catching rabbits, game, and such-likethe floor can be taken away and thenatural earth will form the floor. Thetrap can be taken to pieces in a fewseconds and packed into a small can also be used for catching laid-upferrets, by placing it in front of the hole. It must be remembered that ferreting. COMMENTS ON FERRET TRAPS 123 is done during the winter months. Thetrap would not be set until after sun-down, and ferrets are animals that musthave warmth. Therefore, although itwould most probably catch the ferret, un-less released very soon afterwards the ferretwould in all probability die from cold. The author uses a wooden box trap ofsimilar design, but the ferret when caughttherein is as comfortable as it is in itsown hutch and sleeping box at box trap is baited with flesh food,and has a pan of milk and a comfortablestraw bed ready for the ferrets receptionafter it has been caught. The ferrets getto know this trap by sight, and will gostraight towards it in preference to any-where else, which is to be desired. If Mr. Cliffords traps were fitted upinside with a comfortable and warmsleeping place for the ferret (and there isno reason why, with a little alteration,this should not be done), it would do well 124 FERRETS for a ferret trap, and would have thedouble adv
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