Text Clipping >>All mustelids are inherently tameable. I've read accounts centuries old >>that speak of pet otters, weasels, fishers, skunks, etc., and I'm sure >>polecats are similar, else they would have never been selected for >>domestication in the first place. >We've read a lot about American badgers... This is something that I am interested in reading. Living in Idaho I've seen a lot of ermine and badgers. Anybody ever seen the Marty Stouffer program in which he has 2 'pet' fishers? Man did that ever look fun! (He eventually released them to the wild.) Also, has anybody ever heard of taming pine martens? What about wolverines? I've read a few accounts that note that wolverines seem to have a hatred for humans. . . Breaking into a cabin, trashing the place and then spraying musk (wolverine musk is prolly pretty rank!) all over, just to say... "this is my turf, buddy!" I do know that there are some animals that cannot be tamed without brain surgery that modifies the amygdala. (Like the bear on that old show Gentle Ben.) But I think that this is an impracticle and ethically questionble method of taming. I recall seeing the page of a man who had a beautiful weasel. . . some time last year, but I've since forgotten the url. I would assume that you would have to raise weasels from kits to socialize them to be "tamer". Also I would assume that the dept of Fish and Game would actively discourage something like this. I have a friend who rescued some orphaned fox kits and bottle fed them. The fish and game found out and made him release them. I just thought that this stuff was interesting. What do you other people think? Jon n Mit & the "chickens" (Bela and Fezzik) [Posted in FML issue 2162]