Pest Control

All fanciers have unwanted trials of various kinds, and if you keep mice for long enough you are likely to encounter every known issue at some point.This year’s problem for Smith & Hollis has been a wild rat, or more than one rat, and I know we are not the only...

Editorial January 2023

Apologies to our President – the President’s Notes below were destined for last month’s issue, but due to an administrative error they are a month late. In other words, I got it wrong. The cold spell before Christmas was really testing for those of us who keep...

What the wild mouse said

A CHRISTMAS STORY       by    Walter Higgins Bob Chappell brought an old copy of Fur & Feather to Manchester. At that time, rabbits, cavies, mice, cats and pigeons were all included in the magazine, in very tiny print, and presumably numbered from Page 1 in...