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Title: All about animals. Facts, stories and anecdotes
Year: 1900 (1900s)
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Subjects: Animals
Publisher: New York, McLoughlin bros
Contributing Library: Information and Library Science Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Digitizing Sponsor: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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e pole-cat is very scarce in England; it is destroyed because of thehavoc it makes among the wild birds and animals that are being preserved forgame shooting. But when a pole-cat does visit any game preserve, it leavesa fearful trail behind to mark its progress. It always kills everything it can catchand will only suck the blood of its victim. Often hares and rabbits are foundlying dead that would make a meal for twenty pole-cats. The animal is small and therefore does not worry man seriously, exceptby killing his chickens; but if the creature was the size of a tiger, just imaginethe scourge it would be. There is only one thing the pole-cat is afraid of, andthat is the gun. It only lives on sufferance, and has hard work to keep itsrace from being utterly destroyed. When a pole-cat has almost run an animal down it is so intent on the chasethat it may be easily approached. This is common among all the weasels.The pole-cat has a brownish-yellow fur, varying to black on the paws and tail.
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POACHERS. THE FERRET. -.. ■■■ ;w\ i The Ferrets are the best known of all the weasel family. Cruelty is thebirthright of these curious creatures. They destroy wantonly and viciously,and yet ferrets prove that, when properly handled, they can be tamed, and arecapable of great affection. The ferrets are best recognized by their lithe,creamy-white bodies, pointed noses, and fierce little pink eyes. At one time itwas thought that the ferret and pole-cat were the same animal, but now it iswell known that they are not. The pole-cat lives in the North, while the ferret originally came from Africa. When livingfegltg ■■■ in captivity, these little creatures must be;.-pj % kept very warm, for if by chance they getshut out of doors and the weather turnscold they will die. Set a thief to catch athief holds good with the ferret, for it iscounted as vermin itself, and yet it is usedto kill rats. A large rat is nearly a matchfor the ferret, and it has been said that aftera ferret has bee

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