? |Albino Ferret

[Melly]

Hey thnx for answering guys.. well i dont know if it was running to greet me or had other intentions i didnt hang about to find out! lol I have told a couple people who are insisting its a Albino Mink..But i have Ferret in mind but ive never seen 1 so big! the only time i got close to a ferret was as a young child & it was kinda hanging off my thumb so bit fearfull of them since..
But i will say it was in no way scared of me Brandishing a sweeping brush..lol

[Farplace]

If it was running towards you, it was a ferret who was used to humans. Mink would not approach people.

[~T~]

Originally Posted by Melly

Hey thnx for answering guys.. well i dont know if it was running to greet me or had other intentions i didnt hang about to find out! lol I have told a couple people who are insisting its a Albino Mink..But i have Ferret in mind but ive never seen 1 so big! the only time i got close to a ferret was as a young child & it was kinda hanging off my thumb so bit fearfull of them since..
But i will say it was in no way scared of me Brandishing a sweeping brush..lol

Mink are roughly the same size as ferrets though, slightly smaller if anything.

[davecatt]

I agree any wild mustalid would run away at the first sight of a human. Its a Ferret.

[Putorius]

In the majority of cases, male mink living in a wild state are generally considerably larger than females. Polecats (ancestors of the ferret) are the same.

On the whole, male ferrets (hobs) are also considerably larger than females (jills) but domestication has caused a diversification in sizes to the extent that a particularly large female can on occasion actually be larger than a particularly small male. This doesn`t happen often though.

[faz]

Originally Posted by Putorius

In the majority of cases, male mink living in a wild state are generally considerably larger than females. Polecats (ancestors of the ferret) are the same.

On the whole, male ferrets (hobs) are also considerably larger than females (jills) but domestication has caused a diversification in sizes to the extent that a particularly large female can on occasion actually be larger than a particularly small male. This doesn`t happen often though.

so what is it mink or ferret ?

[Putorius]

Hi Faz,

Originally Posted by faz

so what is it mink or ferret ?

With reference to the animal that was found in a garden and bounded towards Melly;

Originally Posted by Putorius

The animal is almost certainly an escaped or lost ferret, due to it`s behaviour and due to the fact that a mink is far more likely to be very dark brown almost black and is also far less likely to bound towards you to greet you.



I would say it is a ferret, is lost or has escaped and is looking for food and shelter. Your cats are safe in my opinion (I own both ferrets and a cat).

The animal in the picture at the beginning of the thread, looking at the habitat it is in is almost certainly an albino mink.

[Lindsay-c]

The pictures are of albino mink 100% if you ask me

looks like like the one in the picture on this page:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/xexexexex...d-animal.shtml


I have two albino ferrets and if they escaped (god forbid) they wouldn't survive for very long in the wild and they certainly wouldn't be seen anywhere near water Also the animal in the picture appears to have sort of more of a snout than a ferret.

[wizzo]

It's a Ferret - course it is! Wizzo