Authorities are seeking the public’s help in finding the person
who abandoned two ferrets.
Suffolk County SPCA officials announced Thursday a $1,000 reward for
information leading to the arrest and conviction of the person who
abandoned the ferrets at the Oakdale Animal Hospital on or about March
3.
“There are other issues, it’s not a case of just abandonment,” said
Roy Gross, Chief of the Suffolk SPCA. He also said that the ferrets
were about 7-8 years old that each had medical issues and had to be
euthanized.
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Facebook ferrets make a great escape
Mista Ferret is circus trained and has his own Facebook page - but he
is still on the run after escaping from his home in Riverside with five
of his pals
Gordon Tyler's Facebook ferrets, Riverside, Cardiff
Photograph: Hannah Waldram/guardian.co.uk
The race is on to find six circus-trained ferrets who are so loved by
fans they have their own
Facebook page.
The ferrets belong to Gordon Tyler, otherwise known as Fiery Jack, a
36-year-old jester from Riverside. Tyler tours the UK with his 12 talented
ferrets to perform at medieval events.
Ironically, one of their acts is known as The Great Escape, and sees
the ferrets run through an assault course designed like a castle.
Volunteer Tim Stoodley with some of the ferrets which are looking
for new homes at the ferret sanctuary in Grimsthorpe. (METP-11-02-10GM014aa)
Pictures: Georgi Mabee
A RESCUE centre has been swamped
with unwanted pet ferrets because cash-strapped families can no longer
afford to keep them.
Lincolnshire Ferret Rescue, based
in Grimsthorpe, near Bourne, is currently looking after 35 of the unusual
furry pets - more than six times as many as it normally cares for at
this time of year.
Julie Stoodley, who has run the centre for 10 years, said: "The demand for
ferrets as pets has increased in the last few years because they are still
quite unusual and make fantastic pets.
"They are like kittens all their lives and very sociable and playful, and are
great with children.
Volunteer Joanne Mohr, of Chicago, left, hands off a pair of ferrets
to Alison Liska, of Berwyn, right, and the hands of Melissa Dagley,
of Chicago, who will bathe them before the move to a new facility.
89 animals were settled into new homes Sunday by 35 volunteers with
the Greater Chicago Ferret Association, carefully moving them from
a cramped 670-square-foot shelter in west suburban Lyons to larger
quarters three doors east. (Tribune
photo by Chuck Berman / January 29,
2010)
By, Jack Mccarthy
February 1, 2010
Ninna and Luchis peeked briefly at passers-by Sunday, sniffed at the
flurry of activity around them and quickly decided that burrowing into
soft fabric in their spacious cage was far more satisfying.
A pair of female ferrets, Ninna and Luchis were among 89 animals who settled
into new homes Sunday as 35 volunteers with the Greater Chicago Ferret Association
carefully moved them from a cramped 670-square-foot shelter in west suburban
Lyons to larger quarters three doors east.
"The move itself has been over a year in planning," shelter director Steve Malec
said. "For the association, it's a move to expand and get bigger. From the shelter
perspective, we did this move to ensure better quality of animal care. It gives
us more space for volunteers to work, and it's a more healthy environment for
the animals."
MEXICO CITY -- Police in Mexico City have rescued 150 ferrets from
armed robbers after a high speed chase.
Police say they found the furry contraband after the suspects crashed
their car into a tree and then fled on foot.
Fourteen boxes of ferrets imported from the U.S. were taken by force
by three robbers from a truck after it left the Mexico City airport.
Two suspects are under arrest and another escaped.
Police said Friday that a veterinarian who purchased the ferrets reclaimed
them.
ATLANTIC CITY - Some of the most popular inhabitants of the Atlantic City
Aquarium have neither fins, scales nor gills.
What they do have is energy, and a serious case of the cutes.
"Everybody loves them. They are hysterical to watch," Jack Keith, executive
director of the Atlantic City Historical Waterfront Foundation, said of
Fabio and Farrah, two 4-month old ferrets who have been entertaining fans
at the aquarium for the past two months.
The pair aren't the first ferrets to call the aquarium home. The facility's
previous ferret died in the spring.
The aquarium waited to see if someone would donate a ferret, but it didn't
happen.
So, officials purchased two ferrets - the darker and larger Fabio and
the lighter-colored and smaller Farrah.
It is possible to visit the aquarium and not see the ferrets at all. They
spend most of the day sleeping, unseen, in a cage in a husbandry section
of the aquarium, but come out for a 1 p.m. show. They also are brought
out for special events, either in a circular playpen or on leashes, according
to Christopher FitzSimmons, the aquarium's education assistant.
"It's always a good reaction. Kids love cute and furry things. Adults
ask questions such as, 'Why is a ferret in an aquarium?' We refer them
to the kids," said FitzSimmons, who looks after them. "I did miss having
the ferrets around."
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