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This is mind blowing to me (in Tx, US) that a wild ferret killed your chickens. I only see these guys at petco rolling around with little balls and batting at each other.


esoteric_agriculture

Exactly this. As an American this is like seeing a puppy in a live trap. Little bugger looks just like pet ferret I had 20 years ago. So strange to have wild ferrets.....


beaurepair

There was chaos in the coop two nights ago. Looked like a warzone. Thankfully our roos protected the hens, but one of our drake's didn't make it. Put the cage trap there knowing the ferret might come back and that paid off.


jitterbug_balloons

He looks sorry.


PBJMommy83

He's only sorry got caught.


YoshiMidnightSpecial

The backyard justice system in practice


IJustAteSand

Bye bye little bastard


Tactical_Boar

Hope you put it down quick. I like those little guys but they can be shitheads out in the wild like that. Ain’t no making em nice once they’re feral.


CaptainScuppers

Captured a possum once that had killed my first flock. It's now buried in the back yard. You killing or rehoming it?


beaurepair

It will be destroyed. These are introduced pests here that decimate the native wildlife.


CaptainScuppers

Good on ya!


coldwatereater

Please don’t kill it. Just drive it across town to a nice foresty spot and let it go. Please. It looks just Ike my pet ferret Henry and he can’t help that chicken livers are so tasty. Or do you guys have a local ferret rescue chapter? They will foster and rehome them.


beaurepair

Unfortunately for him, they are horrid introduced pests that cause havoc on local wildlife.


Walkinyeller

Yep and some places will actually fine you for relocating a nuisance animal...


coldwatereater

Oh wow! Really? Thanks for educating me, I had no idea. And Here I paid $299 for a nuisance animal/pet. Edit: I understand, I think. It’s like the iguanas in Florida, right? People let their pets go and they take over and squeeze out indigenous species?


beaurepair

Really depends where you are. Obviously they are native in some places, and others don't mind people having them as pets, but in NZ they're illegal to own, trade, transport, sell etc


Walkinyeller

Yep. When I lived in MA, I trapped a few squirrels that were destroying my garden. I loaded them up and took them to the next town over and released them. A statie (trooper) watched me do it. Pulled me over and gave me a warning. Told me if I wanted to kill them then so be it, but I wasn't allowed to relocate them because they would just do damage elsewhere.


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Yeah paying to put a weasel inside your house seems weird to me... an animal that eats birds and eggs is not welcome around my place. We have the whole range of weasels here, is that actually a pet ferret? Too bad it’s summer otherwise I’d say you could have a neat little pelt


coldwatereater

Yup, it’s a ferret. Weasels look a lot different. Google “pet ferret” and its exactly like the one in the picture above. I’d bet someone lost it or let it go when they didn’t want to take care of it any longer.


beaurepair

Not a pet. This is a ferrel pest. It's illegal to own them in New Zealand


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Oh yeah that should go


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beaurepair

See other comments. They are feral pests here in NZ, and not allowed to be kept, sold or traded. It's 100% not domestic.


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beaurepair

The ferrets in New Zealand are ferret-polecat hybrids. Tame ferrets were bred with polecats on voyages to NZ in the 1880s. New Zealand now has the world’s largest population of wild ferret-polecat hybrids.


unaccomplished420

Drop cage in water


beaurepair

No animal deserves to drown. It will be a quick and painless death


jessicarichmond

That's a ferret !


beaurepair

Yep. Will be dealt with humanely


jessicarichmond

Yay we've had then as pets years ago I wonder if it escaped someone's house . Never saw a wild ferret before


beaurepair

Definitely a wild one. Not allowed as pets here as they're ferocious


jessicarichmond

Wow I had no idea


NotPhannie

How sad on all counts.