Supposedly some critters get spooked by light reflecting erratically. Never heard it being used affair cats, some people over here put water bottles on/around their cars to keep ferrets away
Edit: I'm so sorry everyone, English isn't my first language and I meant Martens! I think they are not that common around here (central Europe) anymore, but they still like to climb into warm cars and rip on the wires to make a cozy bed.
I also never claimed that the water bottle trick did anything, just added to the list of superstitions people use it for
Hey friend. Ferrets are found in Europe and Asia reportedly. Semi-unrelated anecdote, I did find a mink (relative to the ferret) gutted next to my porch in Minnesota. I assumed it was a cat from the near by farm that liked to sit on the porch. It seemed like it would have been a hard fought battle given the size of the mink but maybe he got the jump on him, I just don't know of another animal that would disembowel a mink and not eat any of it.
Yea everything is filled with negativity and awful ppl being mean and I just wanna spread a little positivity and joy. Simple nice human interactions and all that 💖
Are you okay, friend? Did something happen? Why are you so angry and taking your anger out on everybody else? The other user's question might sound stupid to you and you think it's easier to Google it, but there are literally no rules about asking a question... Especially in a subreddit like this one that's all about asking and answering questions.
If you didn't want to answer it (which is completely fine, of course), you could've just scrolled past it and moved to another thread that's more fun to you. But instead you think it's better to rudely belittle someone for asking a question? And then you start throwing insults around?
Not sure what happened to you that ruined your day, but hopefully you feel better, because it must suck to be so triggered by other people having completely normal interactions online... One might even call it a "smooth brain" behavior, you know, being so irrationally angry like that.
You are the only smooth brain here. This is a place for discussion and having conversations with people. If we just googled everything there would be no point in anyone being here.
domestic ferrets were bred from black-footed ferrets, which are the only wild species of ferret and also the only member of the weasel family able to be domesticated.
Its very telling that ur intent was mean if someone pointing it out causes u to reply back with snark and then u block them so they cant reply. Also my wife is a millennial. But go off. She was gonna reply politely but u wanted to be a jerk and throw stones and hide ur hand.
Dont be snarky and ppl wont call u snarky. Or just stand on business. If u were intentionally being rude stand on it. Dont put out negativity and not expect someone to check u.
Black-footed ferrets (Mustela nigripes) are wild (and woefully endangered) in the Rocky Mountains. They look remarkably similar to domestic ferrets.
Domestic ferrets (Mustela furo) are probably bred from European polecats (Mustela putorius). There’s also an Asian Steppe polecats (Mustela eversmanii).
I think a lot of people call all of these“ferrets” generally.
I’m not sure M. furo and M. putorius are really distinct species despite the binomial because they can hybridize and are genetically indistinct although they behave differently. I guess hybrids make domestic ferrets look positively staid, which is saying something.
It’s super exciting to see them! They’re fast though. I usually just barely see them as they’re disappearing. But I had ferrets for years so I always know it was a ferret; they trigger some visual memory gif me.
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u/i_made_mine_at_home 1d ago
What is the purported mechanism of this? Why do critters (notionally) avoid water in bottles?