It's a Ferret Life

Poll: People Support Gay Marriage More Than Rodents As Pets

SAN DIEGO -- Ferret fans were disheartened by a statewide poll that showed more people support gay marriage than legalizing the rodents as pets, 10News reported.

San Diego-based Ferrets Anonymous commissioned the Field Poll to gauge public opinion on critters, but found that only 38 percent of those queried support legalizing ferrets, while 43 percent support gay marriage, according to the San Jose Mercury News.

"I thought California was more of a live-and-let-live state," said Pat Wright, who founded the group in San Diego in 1993. He told the San Jose Mercury News that legalizing gay marriage or marijuana might have a better chance at the polls than ferrets.

California and Hawaii are the only two states that ban ownership of ferrets, which are prized by their owners for their companionship, intelligence, loyalty and warmth. Wildlife advocates fear that ferrets could get away from their owners and an establish a semi-wild population that might displace native species.