I say it to a friend who had been doing some bits and pieces in our shed who said he saw a ferret waltz in and have a good snoop around the other day and not to worry once a ferret has been around there wont be rats.
Now I have to admit I have not uncovered if this is fact or fiction just yet.
So tonight I let the dogs out the back to use the "facilities" when I hear an uproar and go running out.
I hear the dogs barking and something screeching!
Its the ferret! Jumping up at the dogs giving it welly, no fear of these two big labrador's!
Then it hit me. The smell! I have been looking it up and its a fear scent that they release from the anal gland which is usually removed in pets when neutered.
So now I stink, the dogs stink and its hiding behing a large flower pot.
I get the dogs back into the house and I go back out with a torch.
Its still behind the pot up against the fence that divides our garden to the neighbours. I pull the pot out and get look, by the time I get my more than useless camera phone out it has slinked in between the lats in the fence so the picture isnt great.
That drain pipe on the left is skinny so you can imagine how small the ferret is! I am assuming it is young as I always thought they were a big bigger than this but like I said before I am not an expert so who knows. So it has moved into next door's garden if not further. I have let the neighbours know it is in the garden, and I am hoping while it is there will it might venture a few gardens up for some dinner in the form of the rats. I am waiting to hear back from a local rescue regarding it and its safety, nothing on facebook that I can find about a missing ferret so assuming it was dumped or who ever owned it hasnt put anything up on local rescue pages etc...
Have no doubt that I will have an update on this.
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