in the uk its quite common for people to deliberately give the wrong species. I believe its because russians/horsefields don't need any paper work to be sold, where as some of the others species do.
This is Oliver, a fairly new addition that was dumped on us. as his previous owner got bored with the 3 she had. she sold 2 and this one was left in a tiny box with a hamster water bottle, dry cat food and no lights or heat. he's a little over 4 inch long and weighed 140gram when we got him...
still no idea what it is, but its been back late last night or very early this morning. its way to big to be a mink. I'd say its fox or otter sized. but otter have 5 toes and fox is way different. I'm thinking maybe its a big tom cat with flat feet lol.
That's the only thing that makes sense but the prints look different to what I've seen before and the pics on google look different. never known them in town before but see them occasionally on the out skirts of town so it wouldn't be too far for them to come in at night.
Never knew that about skunks. I've not heard of any sighting in the uk. it has to be some thing that can climb. our garden is surrounded by a 6ft fence.
I wondered about mink, as theres a pond a few hundred yards from our house. not sure if they get that big either
I found these tracks in and around the compost heap and I have no idea what they are and I'm curios what made them. There's no dogs can get to the area and their to big to be a cat (I think). the blue disc is 3 1/2inch in diameter. I'm i the uk so we don't have racoons or things like that.
thanks
I always use coir and never had any real problems. The only time it got in her eyes was when she had flipped and was trying to right her self she got some in one eye i just rinsed it out with tepid water and she was fine.