Getting a polecat, you should not expect his uncomplaining servility is not that case. You should try to obtain arrangement. But it is worth it, your life considerably will change with emergence in it so fussy, immoderately curious, incredibly cunning and bright small animal. Everything that from you it requires - to create suitable conditions which vary depending on age a polecat. How to define it?
Instruction
1. Pay attention to hair of a polecat. The puppy at the age of 1.5 months is covered with children's wool of gray color. At puppies the color, as a rule, already shown is a little more senior (2-3 months) or is at a manifestation stage. In comparison with adult individuals the puppies of a polecat are covered with soft wool, nice on the touch. The adult polecat has wool rather rough. The same difference, as between hair of the one-year-old child and adult man.
2. Examine teeth of a polecat. Radical begin to be cut through at him in 1-1.5 months, to this age the puppies possess milk teeth. At the age of three months the puppy has already full-fledged canines, snow-white and sharp. Such they remain approximately about one year. During from 1.5 to 2.5 years the tips of canines become yellowish and translucent. In 3-4 years the transparency of canines of a polecat will become much more obvious and will extend to the big area of teeth. Approximately by 6 years the canines turn yellow already completely, and on the lower jaw it is possible to notice lack of several small Zubkov. Teeth of adult individuals, as a rule, are characterized by a stesannost.
3. See to behavior of a polecat. Young individuals differ in the hyperactivity and playfulness. The adult polecat plays much less often, differs in smaller mobility, quickly is tired and therefore constantly sleeps. Muscles of an elderly polecat lose a tone, fur thins and considerably becomes thinner, the tail most often grows bald. There are problems with teeth, it becomes difficult for animal to gnaw and chew food. From 4th to 6 years at an elderly individual of a polecat the serious illness of adrenal glands, hearts and so forth often develops in the period. The polecat is aged also subject to a blindness and deafness.