DSC_0258 Feral ferret (Mustela putorius furo) a large number of rare native bird species (including kiwi), fall prey to feral ferrets in New Zealand every year and so it is illegal to keep ferrets here. DoC license one or two individuals to hold neutered ferrets for conservation purposes, such as the small, slim domesticated albino ferret shown here. Owner Billy Barton uses this animal, to keep rabbit numbers down in DoC's Cromwell Chafer Reserve. Cromwell *
DSC_9446 Feral ferret (Mustela putorius furo) a large number of rare native bird species (including kiwi), fall prey to feral ferrets in New Zealand every year and so it is illegal to keep ferrets here. DoC license one or two individuals to hold neutered ferrets for conservation purposes, such as the two small, slim domesticated albino ferrets shown here. Owner Billy Barton uses these animals, to keep rabbit numbers down on DoC's Reserves, such as the Cromwell Chafer Reserve in Cromwell *
DSC_9658 Feral ferret (Mustela putorius furo) ferret owner and tapper Billy Barton retrieves a wild rabbit captured by his trained ferret. DoC license one or two individuals like Billy, to hold neutered ferrets for conservation purposes. Billy uses his small, slim domesticated albino ferrets to keep rabbit numbers down on DoC's Reserves, such as the Cromwell Chafer Reserve in Cromwell *
