via old-picture.com (circa 1900s, New York) [Image: Unknown]
Please remind me why a terrier is needed. Ferrets are far more effective for working vermin than cats and dogs: mice, rats, groundhogs, ground squirrels, prairie dogs, snakes.
I know this from experience, once the duplex I rented in Edmonton, AB, had a mice infestion, and a pair of African Soft-furred Rats escaped, Rousseau the ferret made short work of them. Similarly, a friend in Bellingham, WA shared a story about how she used ferrets to clear the walls and balcony of rats. These domesticated weasels are extremely intelligent creatures, sometimes seemingly more intelligent than dogs.
It is unfortunate ferretting in North America is banned in many places just because of a few environmental scares of the polecat hybridization re-wilding in New Zealand and other insular cases. Nowadays, if one wishes to do groundworks, or simple pest management, it has to be done on private land and kept hush-hush.
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