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Nov
02
2010
Birmingham ferret owner allowed his pet to die in pain |
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Tuesday, 02 November 2010 |
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Birmingham ferret owner allowed his pet to die in pain
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November 2, 2010
Birmingham Mail
A BIRMINGHAM man who allowed his pet ferret to starve to death has avoided an immediate jail sentence.
Scott Sykes, 33, of Larkspur Croft, Bromford Bridge, had previously admitted seven charges of animal cruelty.
He was sentenced to 13 weeks’ imprisonment, suspended for two years, and ordered to pay £1,236 costs.
Sykes was also banned from keeping any animal, apart from the dog he owns, for ten years.
Gaynor Sutton, prosecuting, told Birmingham Magistrates’ Court that an RSPCA officer found two ferrets, one of which was already dead, in an enclosure in an outhouse at Sykes’s home in April.
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Sep
21
2010
California Ferret Lovers to Meet in Concord for Political Action Event as New Ferret Research is R |
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Tuesday, 21 September 2010 |
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California Ferret Lovers to Meet in Concord for Political Action Event as New Ferret Research is Released from Sacramento State University |
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eNewsChannels
By Aria Munro
LA MESA, Calif. /eNewsChannels/ — A press conference has been announced for Noon on Saturday, Sept. 25th by LegalizeFerrets, calling on Governor Schwarzenegger to lift the ferret ban before he leaves office and asking (again) the respective Jerry Brown and Meg Whitman campaigns to address the issue.
About 100 California ferret enthusiasts are meeting at the Holiday Inn in Concord right after a new research study has been released by Sacramento State University on the issue of ferret legalization in California. The gathering is known as “Legalize Ferrets Revival” organized by legalizeferrets.org.
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Aug
05
2010
Lurker pets |
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Thursday, 05 August 2010 |
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Lurker pets |
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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. Recommend this article... |
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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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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
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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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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
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