There's a "wild" polecat in our house
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It's 100% wild polecat and has been chased around the house by the dogs. I mispent a lot of my youth rabbiting with ferrets and X polecats so know 1st hand how the blighters can nip....There is no way I am putting my hands under a settee to try and grab it but I have dug out some old leather kart racing gloves but wife is refusing to put them on at the moment.
Vandenberg said:
Check which one of your thumbs is the fattest, dip the winner in a jar of marmite and proffer said thumb to hiding creature, you might have to suffer a couple of nibbles before it bites down and is safely latched on, then leave the house with polecat still attached, it will eventually release itself and scamper off to eat anything in sight.
I'm on blood thinners but will tell the wife your suggestion.Boosted LS1 said:
Can you put the dogs elsewhere and then open the doors and windows before moving the settee? Give it an exit to bolt through. perhaps you could get your wife to put her curlers in. That should do the trick. :-)
I have a confession to make....our dogs can open the internal doors so she dragged drag them screaming and kicking down to the MIL's house while I stood guard.After numerous phone calls, many to machines, we got to a human at the RSPCA........explained the situation with difficulty............call back 1 hr later...........sorry we can't help so can you put it in a box take it to local vets?
We then did exactly what you suggested but it took some time as we had to make a clear path from the living room to the back door.........then a foot at a time I dragged the settee through 3 rooms and the dear thing obligingly moved with it.........eventually it made a dash for it once we were within a foot of the door..............move furniture back and collected 2 very excited dogs and am now posting about it on a forum..........No sight or sound of RSPCA though.
ps Wife did stand guard with a mop but her services weren't required in the end but may have to consider finding a braver replacement if it happens again.
mybrainhurts said:
alfie2244 said:
mybrainhurts said:
alfie2244 said:
I have dug out some old leather kart racing gloves but wife is refusing to put them on at the moment.
Yipper said:
Nobody ever died by polecat. It was prolly more scared of you. They were nearly extinct a few years ago and are now making a comeback in England and Wales (but struggling in Scotland). Good to hear it got away unharmed.
Truly a beautiful animal, I've seen wild stoats and obviously domesticated ferrets / polecats before. I would think a wild, scared and cornered polecat could have made a bit of a mess of the Mrs or god forbid our dogs' noses if it really felt threatened.....not impressed by the RSPCA though.randlemarcus said:
RSPCA won't help, as there's probably nobody to prosecute. Apart from you, and they now have your number
Certainly felt like that..... me injure an endangered species could have been a good case for them 
Edited by alfie2244 on Tuesday 25th July 15:19
Boosted LS1 said:
Anything's better then an Abbot!
I'd move out if one of them got in....would scare the life out of me, the wife and our dogs and RSPCA would definitely not help to evict.mybrainhurts said:
It's laid an egg in your settee...
You're in for it when it hatches out in the middle of the night...
Did you watch Alien?
Indeed I have You're in for it when it hatches out in the middle of the night...
Did you watch Alien?
Einion Yrth said:
randlemarcus said:
RSPCA won't help, as there's probably nobody to prosecute. Apart from you, and they now have your number
I wouldn't give the RSPCA the steam off my piss; horrible organisation, more interested in their salaries than animal welfare.
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