To choose a polecat, it is necessary to be guided by several highlights. First of all you has to be interested he behavior, appearance, the nature of movements and also behavior of his mother. Only considering all these features, you will be able to find nonaggressive and capable to get on with the person of a polecat.
Instruction
1. Do not choose too little or too adult polecat. You should not tear off a cub from mother until he stays with her ten weeks. On the other hand, the teenage polecat or an animal of more advanced age will hardly be able to get used to you. It is predatory animals and to begin to communicate with them follows while they are in two-three-months age. During this period they can impart the qualities necessary for stay in human family: mildness, trust to people.
2. Study appearance of a polecat. Attentively examine wool - it has to be brilliant and dense. The dimness of fur, a bald spot will testify to an illness. Polecats have to differ in quite dense constitution therefore pay attention to large individuals. Small the horyat can just not survive at you. Very important information on a polecat is born by his nose - at a healthy individual it brilliant, damp and cold, without unclear spots and allocations. Investigate also eyes of a polecat, it is also possible to determine his state by them. The main thing that they did not water.
3. Consider that the backbone of a sick polecat is often bent and has uncharacteristic bends, and edges can have irregular shape. Besides, the healthy polecat has to possess a strong rack, and his back pads are located strictly in parallel and are not curved in knee joints.
4. Observe behavior of a polecat in group of his brothers, look as far as he is active, sociable and inquisitive. Check its attitude towards the person - better to choose a polecat who actively will join in a game, but at the same time it will not be too aggressive. As well as any predatory animal, he most likely, will bite, but the nature of such pokusyvaniye should not be too strong.
5. Look also behind how with cubs mother behaves. Force of heredity is very big and if you see that it is apathetic or it is unhealthy looks that it is wary of the person, then probability is high, as any polecat from its dung will also behave in the future.
6. Choose that polecat who also will stretch to you. It will be the best guarantee that he will become the real member of your family.