Ferrets : their management in health and disease with remarks on their legal status . un-ning a little backward, sufficiently topress the nose of the unlucky wearer. Afew trials of this kind are sufficient forthe ferret; he loses his dash, injures hisnose and face trying to displace the head-gear, refuses to work or gets sulky andlays up. Verbum sap. 88 FERRETS Muzzle No. 3 is an invention whichfurnishes another instance of more imj)ort-ance being attached to theory rather thanto practice. Several of these muzzles were given tothe author to experiment with (and report thereon), which hedid, at
Ferrets : their management in health and disease with remarks on their legal status . un-ning a little backward, sufficiently topress the nose of the unlucky wearer. Afew trials of this kind are sufficient forthe ferret; he loses his dash, injures hisnose and face trying to displace the head-gear, refuses to work or gets sulky andlays up. Verbum sap. 88 FERRETS Muzzle No. 3 is an invention whichfurnishes another instance of more imj)ort-ance being attached to theory rather thanto practice. Several of these muzzles were given tothe author to experiment with (and report thereon), which hedid, at the time, incompany with anold and experiencedkeeper, w^ho hadmanasred ferrets for Fig. 26.—Muzzle No. 3. sixty years and up-wards. It was the old story over will not do when copes can beused and obtained. As shown by the drawing, the muzzleconsists of a band made from brass oraluminium, punctured at intervals toallow a small screw rod of the samematerial to be screwed tightly band is passed over the ferrets noseand the rod run through one side of it. MUZZLES behind the animars canine teeth, beingscrev/ed in on the other side to keep itin place. The rod is made to fit exactly,so that it does not protrude at either end ;therefore, to use these muzzles, they must
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