Many of the banned California animals cannot survive the climate or even in the wild like ferrets
Monster fish Legality
- Thread starter ygwilliam
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Many of the banned California animals cannot survive the climate or even in the wild like ferrets
Stoats, weasels and ferrets all survive quite happily here, so I'd imagine they'd do pretty well at least in northern California.
Ferrets are very different from weasels, they don't tolerate heat, after so much domestication they don't show any signs of normal fear of predators, and 3 : probably one of the worst hunters of any of the carnivorous mammals.
Sadly we don't know much of anything about true wild ferrets that they descended from.
The keel over and die part come from escaped/released animals, they rarely live more than a few days in such situations.
And I've always thought ferreting would be fun, but it should be noted that one should be ready to treat rabbit/rat bites on ferrets as needed.
Out here they released coons and opossums, both now have established populations, but they are undomesticated animals.
I dunno... from what I understand minks, stoats, and other weasels are absolute killing machines for their tiny size... I understand why they wouldn't want to risk it.
Minks and weasels (and a stoat being a weasel), can live about anywhere,comparing them to domestic ferrets is like comparing a chihuahua to a wolf, besides if ferrets were able to establish a population here they would of by now.
