I hunt muskrat and squirrel with trained mink

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Minkenry

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I Just found this forum, and I thought I'd join to see what you guys can teach me, as well as share a little about my sport. I'm involved with multiple different hunting forums(falconry, ferreting, trapping, shooting, ect), because I feel each group has a different angle on hunting, and so different experiences that I can learn from and apply to my sport.

I have invented a field sport I call Minkenry. I am always working to improve my sport, and love to share it with others.

In case you are curious, here's a little about how my interest in mink began, and here's the story behind it. I became interested in mink when I moved near several mink farms in Lehi Utah, during my last year of high school. This was the first time I was introduced to mink. When I moved to Lehi I knew nothing about mink, and I was told by everyone around town that mink were wild, vicious, and impossible to tame. Having had plenty of experience taming and training wild hawks and falcons as a falconer (with a late season passage cooper's hawks being one of them), and wild horses as a horse trainer, I decided to try to do the "impossible" and tame a mink.

Soon after taming a couple different mink, I became intrigued with the idea of hunting and fishing with a trained mink. I have since hunted and fished with several different mink that I have trained. I have found Minkenry to be just as addictive as falconry, with the added satisfaction of knowing I'm a pioneer in the sport. Here's a little video I put together showing some of my mink in action......





Here are a few pictures to go along with the video



























 
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Yep, I do have a little pest control company and I hunt problem rats, squirrels, and muskrats part time. It is super useful, as the mink can often show you holes you would have never found yourself. It sure beats driving back and forth to check traps! You walk in, chase out/catch the squirrel. Repair the hole, and move on to the next house! Often the animals are so afraid of the mink, they don't come back, even if you don't catch them!
 
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Here's the big old female rat, and adult male house mouse my mink Missy found in a client's pantry. The rat had chewed a hole in the wall in the back of the pantry where no one could see it come and go, and was traveling around inside the walls of the home. They could hear the rat scratching around, and had spent many many weeks trying to trap or poison the rat, and had even paid a professional pest service to get rid of the rat for them, but no matter what they tried, they just couldn't catch her. Missy sniffed out the rats hole that we never even knew existed, and went right in the wall after it! So goodbye Miss Rat and her boyfriend Mr. Mouse.

 
Yea man, that is awesome!!
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Your other videos are neat too. I can only imagine the hours and hours of training that would take.
 
Originally Posted By: brainedYea man, that is awesome!!
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Your other videos are neat too. I can only imagine the hours and hours of training that would take.

Yep, it sure does take a lot of work.
 
Originally Posted By: YotecallrAwesome, does she ever bite you?

I've had many different mink, so it depends on which one you are asking about. I have had several mink that we never once had an accident or misshape, and I've had a few mink that have ether purposefully or accidentally nailed me pretty good. My advice is if you can't handle getting bit HARD on occasion, then don't get a mink!
 
Wow.. I agree - I'm impressed. I've got to see hawks work on a number of occasions. and that's cool too. What are the legalities of keeping and hunting with a mink? "Ferreting" is illegal here... but man, that looks like a riot.
 


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