ENGLISH POLECATS
BRED IN LONDON GARDEN Among the huge throng which attended the annual show of the Fur Farmers’ Association of Great Britain in London were many millionaire breeders of mink, wealthy majors, and titled women. Yet Mrs G. Souray, a housewife of Hendon, was the proudest of them all. It was not because she was taking prizes, but because she has 50 animals nearly all bred by her in her suburban garden. With her was a specimen, Lady Mary, a polecat. “The neighbours don’t complain about my animals,” she said. “Some of them once said that since they were polecats they were bound to smell, but I soon silenced them by saying that a polecat does not use the gland that creates the odour except when it is being pursued by an enemy. “Mine have no enemy to fear, so that particular gland is never used.
“I began breeding fitches—or polecats—lB months ago, after going to a meeting where somebody was urging women to wear only fur coats made from pelts of animals killed by humane methods.
“Quite soon now I shall make a bit of money,” she said. “But the thrill is to think that it was possible in a back garden in a busy street in Greater London."
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLV, Issue 21280, 25 February 1939, Page 15
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211ENGLISH POLECATS Timaru Herald, Volume CXLV, Issue 21280, 25 February 1939, Page 15
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