Will ferreting too regularly make my ferrets tame?

FERRETING
Edward Cook
Well, all I can say is that the chap near you is simply the village idiot and should be ignored at all costs!

Working with ferrets that bite isn’t fun and is simply unnecessary – if your ferrets are spiteful in any way then all it shows is that you have no skills with animals.

When I reach down after digging to retrieve a rabbit I trust all my ferrets to not latch on to me.

The tamer the ferret the better say I, so handle them gently and daily from an early age.

About the author

Edward Cook

A professional rabbit catcher and ferreting expert, he served for many years on the Shooting Times question-and-answer panels, answering readers on ferret feeding, welfare and working, and wrote features on rabbit control, including shooting alongside the combine harvester.

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