The Mink Man.

I read about him on agweb. He goes to farms with serious rat problems and hunts barn rats with a mink and dogs. He makes his income hunting barn rats. I found the story interesting.

Hmm, I wonder how hard a mink is to train?

Link??
Is it that guy from Utah? Haven't seen him on here in a while.

I got a buddy in Ireland that uses hunting Hawks and Falcons for the same.
Makes good money and has a lot of fun at the same time.

He has a Trapperman account. He used to post fairly often.

If it's the same guy I have his book called minkenry.

He's from Utah. I didn't know he was on trapperman.

I seen a few of his videos.

He's Minkener on Trapperman.

https://trapperman.com/forum/ubbthreads.php/users/35818/minkener

Keith

Thank you, Keith.

You're welcome Run.

Keith

If it’s a same guy I am thinking of, he used to post videos of hunting muskrats with his mink and they were pretty interesting.

Hasn't logged on since 2018, unfortunately

They were some good videos, watching how the Mink hunted.

My grandpa told me how my great grandpa used to train minks to go down in rabbit holes. Back when that was taking place people did a lot of things to put food on the table. He said that was the most enjoyable of ways to provide meat

Usually when they get older they get temperamental and it reaches a point where you have to set em free. If they have that fighting instinct then they do just fine when releases

More mink videos- https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=hunting+muskrats+with+mink

Ferrets were used a lot for hunting rabbits.

As I understand it, after he had a trained mink stolen, and another got lost, his heart just wasn't in it anymore and he retired from it.

It looks like he is still posting videos. This one was posted Aug 5, 2022-

Sweet deal.

Probably more mrats in that stretch of creek bank in Utah than my county here in PA? Why is that ya suppose?