The domestic polecat is the cultivated wild forest polecat representing a little mammal with a flexible body and a long tail. Contrary to popular belief, polecats have no strong smell. Besides, it is funny, cheerful and playful animals with playful and curious character. That they brought joy, it is necessary to look after them correctly.
Instruction
1. Polecats have to contain in big cages or without them, in the room or on a loggia. It is impossible to support a polecat in a small cage. If polecat lives in a cage, then it has to spend at least two hours a day out of it. This time is necessary for an animal for games and the movement. Indoors, where let out a polecat, it is necessary to close up narrow cracks, and to tighten windows a grid that the small animal did not drop out. It is desirable to remove all small objects from the room. Polecats are similar to small children, are very curious, are interested in everything, everywhere try to get through, like to steal small things. It needs to be considered when choosing the place for keeping of a small animal.
2. If the polecat contains in a cage, it needs to be issued so that to compensate to an animal a lack of games and the movement: put cardboard boxes, ladders, pipes, labyrinths. It is also necessary to prepare a berth, polecats the most part of the life sleep. For this purpose take a small box. If the polecat has no cage, it is optional to create to him a berth – the polecat itself will find for himself a corner, as a rule, behind a chair or a sofa, under a case. Track a small animal and equip his place with soft materials.
3. It is daily necessary to feed and give to drink to the pet. There are three types of food for polecats: natural products, ready-made feeds or according to a natural diet. The last means the maximum compliance to needs of polecats who like to regale on rodents, chickens, cockroaches. If such food does not suit you, buy special professional forages. It is more difficult to make a diet of natural products: you feed polecats with chicken, mutton, an offal, porridges – rice, buckwheat, porridge. Give them cod-liver oil, eggs, cottage cheese, vegetable oil.
4. Periodically cut to a polecat claws by means of special scissors. It is also necessary to bathe an animal regularly. If you want to walk polecats, buy a special breast-band. Every day it is necessary to clean a toilet, replacing a laying. Polecats are accustomed to a tray at children's age as cats.
5. Annually do to a polecat of an inoculation from rage and a distemper, the same vaccines, as for dogs are for this purpose used. You watch a condition of an animal – his wool, activity, behavior. In case of any deviations see veterinarians.