Ferrets

See MUST ELIDE. The European Ferret, Pole-cat, Fitch, or Foul Mart is ab. 16 in. long, and in color black-brown. It preys on small animals, attacking them in the neck, or piercing their brain, and is destructive to poultry. The African IMG:content-0056.jpg:[graphic][merged small][merged small] Ferret is an albino, domesticated in different countries for catching rabbits and rats, but it endures cold weather poorly. In America is the Black footed Ferret or Polecat, which lives on the gophers and prairie-dogs of the West.