24 KEVELATIONS OF A EAT-CATCHEK. 



milk, and occasionally a little raw liver. Mix 

 the bread and milk with a little hot water, stir 

 well with a spoon or squeeze through your 

 fingers, so that the ferrets will have to eat ib 

 w r here you feed them ; if not they will carry 

 the large pieces of bread that are wet into the 

 corners of the sleeping place, which would 

 soon cause that part of the hutch to smell 

 very sour and become injurious to the health 

 of the ferret, especially where four or five 

 are kept together, as they are of a very 

 perspiring nature. Always give them plenty 

 of room to run about when you can ; if you 

 don't they are likely to take cramp. 



Ferrets are usually subject to distemper. 

 The first symptom is the ferret's neglect of 

 its food. When you see this you will observe 

 a little matter at the corner of the eyes, and 

 the ferret will have a slight running at the 

 nostrils. Immediately you see these symptoms 

 separate that ferret from the others, as this is, 

 I think, the worst disease one has to contend 

 with. 



In the whole of my ferret-keeping experience 

 I have found distemper, if caught in time, can 

 be cured; but if it gets too far I know of no 

 ure for it. I have known a gamekeeper to 

 have dogs with the distemper, and he has not 

 touched his ferrets or handled them at all 



