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Aug 05 2010

Lurker pets

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Thursday, 05 August 2010
-------------  Legal News
-------------  Written by: Kel Munger and Nick Miller

Lurker pets

 

By Kel Munger and Nick Miller
August 5, 2010
Newsreview.com

They’re not your typical criminals. But they’ll unite next month to try to convince the state to decriminalize a very important part of their lives.

They’re ferret owners, and they’re breaking the law.

Estimates suggest the number of ferrets in the state range anywhere from 100,000 to half a million, yet ferrets are illegal in California. The Pet Industry Joint Advisory Council reports that Californians buy 27 percent of ferret supplies sold nationwide. That’s a lot of supplies for pets that aren’t supposed to be here.

The ferret-legalization movement has a history. A bill in 2005 was vetoed by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger for being “too bureaucratic” and failing to have an environmental impact report (see “Ferret factor” by Jeffrey M. Barker; SN&R News; March 24, 2005). But ferret owners swore they’d be back. And this time, they’ll be armed to the rarely used but pointy teeth with facts and figures.

The San Diego-based group Ferrets Anonymous has contracted with a Sacramento State biological sciences professor to study the supposed dangers of ferrets. His first quarter report indicates that no area in the United States has had problems with feral ferrets, which has been the California Department of Fish and Game’s major reason for opposing legalization.

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Oct 26 2009

Man Kicked Out of Mall for Service Animal Ferret

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Monday, 26 October 2009
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-------------  Written by: James Gilbert

Man Kicked Out of Mall for "Service Animal" Ferret

Winston-Salem, NC (WFMY)
wltx.com
James Gilbert     
10/26/2009

Tim Hull says he's suffered from quiet seizures for years, until now.  And he thinks it is all due to Bella the ferret.

The ferret, he says, isn't his pet.  It's his service animal.

"'It's a ferret, it's an animal. It's a pet, it's a rat.' That's basically the first thing I feel that people think when they come across her. They look at her, and she's in a buggy, they think 'Well, that's just a pet and they are spending money on that pet'," said Tim Hull when he described the usual reaction to his service animal. 

Hull insists the calm that Bella brings him prevents his seizures.  He and his wife also says Bella can detect when a seizure is coming.

"She senses his seizures, his sugars, and calms him down to where he doesn't have it," says Leann Hull, Tim's wife. 

Leann Hull says when a seizure episode does happen, Bella alerts her, "She'll start making a sound like, 'cuh, cuh.'"  Leann says Tim's seizures are

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Jun 29 2009

In effort to legalize domestic ferrets in California, PETCO shoppers encouraged to save receipts

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Monday, 29 June 2009
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-------------  Written by: Florida Newswire

CA Wire: In effort to legalize domestic ferrets in California, PETCO shoppers encouraged to save receipts

LA MESA, Calif. — In an effort to legalize domestic ferrets in California, one of only two states to ban the critters, ferret owners are asking for help from PETCO(R), the state’s largest pet supply retailer. “Now we’re asking PETCO to support ferret owners,” said Pat Wright, of LegalizeFerrets.org.

Ferret legalization proponents are working with Dr. Geo Graening, a professional EIR Consultant with Natural Investigations and California State University Sacramento to comply with the Department of Fish and Game’s requirement of an Environmental Impact Report before they will address the issue of ferret legalization in California.

California has the largest ferret population in the nation. According to the Pet Industry Joint Advisory Council (the largest pet trade association

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Mar 21 2009

Ferrets Anonymous meets in secret to discuss the illegal pets

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Saturday, 21 March 2009
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-------------  Written by: LA Times

Ferrets Anonymous meets in secret to discuss the illegal pets

March 21, 2009
  Ferret
  Photo: Rich Pedroncelli/Associated Press

LA Times

The members of a secret(ish) society called Ferrets Anonymous had a special guest at a recent meeting, which was held at an IHOP restaurant in Laguna Niguel: writer Gendy Alimurung of the L.A. Weekly.  Alimurung describes the clandestine event:

"You have to be careful who you invite over to your house, because what if your neighbor gets mad at you and turns you in?" says a woman named Anita H., who is known as the Duck Lady because she drives to work with her duck in a laundry hamper in the front seat. This is something she could never do with her ferrets, at least not in California or Hawaii, the only two states where the animals are banned.

"Exactly," seconds Lance M., the organization's president. "What's so special about California anyway? Do you see any devastation in California? No. Just the bedroom in the morning." It is President M.'s first term and already he is revolutionizing the way Ferrets Anonymous does business, what with the redesigned logo and the

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Mar 11 2009

The Fuzzy Underground A Clandestine Meeting With Ferrets Anonymous

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Wednesday, 11 March 2009
-------------  Legal News
-------------  Written by: Gendy Alimurung

The Fuzzy Underground: A Clandestine Meeting With Ferrets Anonymous

Hundreds of thousands of illegal ferrets allegedly hiding out in California

  “You are God to them”: Undercover Dusty J. with fuzzies Ferret Faucet and Sparky.
 

Jennie Warren

“You are God to them”: Undercover Dusty J. with fuzzies Ferret Faucet and Sparky.

By Gendy Alimurung
LA Weekly
March 11, 2009

The members of Ferrets Anonymous are breakfasting at an IHOP in Laguna Niguel, grumbling about the illegality of their favorite animal and raison d’être. “Chinchillas are legal, why not ferrets?” asks one man, over a bite of pancake.

“You have to be careful who you invite over to your house, because what if your neighbor gets mad at you and turns you in?” says a woman named Anita H., who is known as the Duck Lady because she drives to work with her duck in a laundry hamper in the front seat. This is something she could never do with her ferrets, at least not in California or Hawaii, the only two states where the animals are banned.

“Exactly,” seconds Lance M., the organization’s president. “What’s so special about California anyway? Do you see any devastation in California? No. Just the

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