The unusual small animal with the ridiculous name "honorik" is popular with fans of pets. Nice, surprising with smartness of character and inquisitiveness, he can become the true little friend.
Honorik is an unusual animal
The interesting name "honorik" of the animal brought in 1978 easily speaks. The small animal who appeared from a polecat and a female of the European mink got from relatives of trait of character and the name which turned out from merge of two names. Honorik have also other name borrowed in Poland - "ferret".
Externally honorik resemble a mink, but at the edges the small animal inherited larger ears with light coloring from a polecat. Ferrets are multi-colored: golden, white, chocolate and silvery. The white spot on a forehead of an honorik allows to call him "badger", dark pads, a tail and a mask - "siamky", and completely white head – "panda". The exotic small animal with the clean shining eyes has soft brilliant wool.
Behavior and temper of an honorik
Honorikam from mother of a mink the ability to float, and intensive digging of holes – inheritance from a polecat got. There is no inquisitiveness of an honorik a limit, it can appear anywhere. Therefore owners need to show care accidentally not to do harm to the pet. Starting washing, check whether sleeps in the washing machine drum honorik. Densely close doors to the bathroom and a toilet: cases demonstrate death of small animals in a toilet bowl and the bathtub filled with water. Attentively you watch the step and check the place where you are going to sit down: honorik can appear in the clothes lying on a chair. If your pet was gone, look for him in cracks between walls and furniture, in a sofa, in boxes. Honorik is capable even to be rolled in toilet rolls. The small animal giving trouble can live up to 12 years at the attentive relation to it and the correct leaving. Serious leaving, special conditions of accommodation, a certain food and the delicate address is necessary for ferrets. Honoriki – small predators. It is necessary to feed pets with meat, porridges, fruit and vegetables, smoked products are categorically excluded from a diet. Honoriki have aggressive temper, are tamed hardly. Having decided to get houses of this small animal, buy at first a samochka. Girls habits remind cats, are more appeasable, get used to the person much quicker. Having known habits of the unusual pet well, it is possible to get the restive honorika-boy.
Cultivation of a hybrid of a mink and polecat
In the wild nature of an honorika almost do not meet. In the eighties last century the undertaken mass cultivation of these animals on fur farms caused difficulties. First, reproduction of posterity of honorik was represented by quite difficult process, males have no ability to bring forth offspring. Secondly, the number of individuals of the European mink was constantly reduced. Now cultivation of honorik, first of all, is connected with the scientific purposes. In some cities the experimental biological centers are for this purpose created. There are manufacturers who part the remote generations of these animals. The Soviet biological science which was on rise brought a special animal hybrid. The fur of honorik differing in high quality was noted by medals at furs exhibitions in the capital. Mass media paid to the descendants who appeared in bondage known a mink and a polecat much attention long ago.