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Post by Heather on Sept 18, 2012 14:35:47 GMT -5
Obviously never seen a hob in season ;D...ferrets don't come with their bits....now I've heard everything ciao
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Post by Deleted on Sept 18, 2012 19:15:17 GMT -5
I think currently I might be the only person in the state with any intact ferrets (shh don't tell the government!) Nah.. we're around. Had a heck of a time getting our last private breeder ferrets neutered, though (years ago). Had a few receptionists tell me that they 'come without their bits!'. And one that threatened to call the police on me for owning intact ferrets. Fingers crossed that mom and kits bounce back from this rough start! Did you ever try driving across the border to another state like NH or CT? I don't think intacts are illegal here in NH, I wonder where I could find that info out. That's so crazy that they made intact ferrets illegal in Ma... first time I've heard of it.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 19, 2012 9:36:10 GMT -5
Intact ferrets aren't illegal.. the receptionist was wrong about the law. Selling an un-neutered ferret IS illegal, so there are no legal ferret breeders in MA (to my knowledge).
We found a vet to take care of neutering both of our boys, though the techs were pretty funny to watch when the boys would bust out of the carrier for their initial exams. They were SO MUCH larger than the techs were expecting to see. We 'treed' one in the corner. Stout just wanted to say hello!
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Post by Deleted on Sept 19, 2012 17:10:56 GMT -5
No, it's illegal to own intact here as well as sell them. Check out MA Wildlife: www.mass.gov/dfwele/dfw/wildlife/living/keeping_wildlife.htmThat's hilarious about the techs, though!! My vet is great about my kids and my one whole girl, in fact he's curious to see how the health of her and her sister pan out compared to the usual MFs he sees. Where in MA are you rdaniels?
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Post by unclejoe on Sept 19, 2012 18:10:03 GMT -5
Best wishes for the new kids
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Post by shiftyferret on Sept 19, 2012 18:56:21 GMT -5
Absurd law, mustelidblues ... I find it amusing you cannot have an intact ferret... but you certainly can have an intact mink, so long as it's been bred in captivity for at least two generations!
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Post by Deleted on Sept 19, 2012 20:12:06 GMT -5
mblues - I'm about an hour south of you. Maybe a bit less if I'm breaking more laws ;D
Most of our vets have been supportive of the weird things we do, like the raw feeding and the late altering... but it's taken a long time to find those vets!
Massachusetts is crazy sometimes. There's some weird law about not removing mammals from stumps or holes either...
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nanjferret
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Post by nanjferret on Sept 23, 2012 10:30:49 GMT -5
At 8 weeks they should be ok. I'd give them a milk mush (I like a goat's milk, egg yolk, greek yogurt and oil combo with some probiotics mixed in and even pureed meats) and of course raw and keep them together for now. Kibble needs to be fed too as that's what the mom knows but the kits at that age will eat anything. Too much stress on them to try and separate now. Just keep a big bowl in there all the time and plenty of water and they will be ok hopefully. The implant will dry mom up as said before. Thanks for saving them!! I've been following this a few weeks now through others that were involved in this. What bothers everyone is the pics of the kits were very dark sable to black selfs and we were wondering who this guy got the whole ferrets from. They definitely looked in structure and color more like show quality kits than not, not Carolina ferrets.
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Post by Heather on Sept 23, 2012 11:16:18 GMT -5
Was he not willing to divulge where he got the jill from originally? Is there no way to trace her? A microchip maybe? It may be that she's been through a couple of hands first I've seen this happen in dogs where the breeder discovers an unspayed b**ch in a shelter. In a rescue that we did we discovered the original couple were too embarrassed by their situation (so they claimed) to admit to the breeder that they had been unable to handle and afford the dog and had given her to a friend whom had more "space" and had promised to care for her. This so called friend had then sold her to another party who bred her twice and then dumped her at a shelter. The shelter traced her through her tats and chip back to the original breeder. He then picked her up at the shelter. She was then spayed and spent the rest of her days with him. She was a sweet girl, despite her checkered past. She had been sold on a non-breeding contract but was to remain intact as her original owners wanted to show her. ciao
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Post by Sherry on Sept 23, 2012 11:28:27 GMT -5
How sad is that And it is bad when your own embarrassment takes priority over the welfare of the animal who has placed their trust in you.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 23, 2012 17:25:38 GMT -5
That is horrible I have no idea where he got either his original hob or the jill, he was pretty bonded to the hob but didn't seem to care too much for mama or babies And he wouldn't tell the shelter or my buddy where he got any of them, though he has remained in contact with her and is even curious about beginning to change the boy's food (was feeding Marshall's and one of the 8-in-1's, don't know which.) So that is positive at least. Perhaps he really just didn't understand the severity of the situation, that's what everyone seems to think. I find that hard to believe, but meh. I think the plan right now is to keep babies (all of whom are spoken for, as is mom) with mom until they are 14ish weeks - they have been eating raw mush as has mom, which is awesome. I don't think any of the new homes are interested with keeping up raw feeding, though. MA has some wonky laws for sure - the mink one cracks me up especially since there are several laws stating that one cannot possess an animal that is native to MA... I see mink all the time around here, they are abundant and well-fed and perhaps over-populous because of that wonky law.
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