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Aug
12
2010
Dogs left behind? With citywide dog ban, pet lovers turn to ferrets |
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Thursday, 12 August 2010 |
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Dogs left behind? With citywide dog ban, pet lovers turn to ferrets |
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Despite their hefty price tags, ferrets are selling like hotcakes in Chengdu. Sweater not included. |
August 12, 2010
GoChengdoo
Tian Chen
The ban on keeping large dogs as pets in Chengdu has led to an unexpected fad—ferret raising.
Regulations that prohibit owners from keeping 22 breeds of large dog went into effect July 1 this year. Banned breeds include the Tibetan Mastiff, the Great Dane, and the German Shepherd. (For a complete list of banned breeds, click here.) The regulations stipulate that each household may keep one small dog.
But while most large dog keepers still haven't found a way to deal with their beloved animal friends, a new trend has emerged among city dwellers: keeping ferrets as pets.
"Ferrets have become a new fashion in Chengdu since the banning of large dogs," said Shi Lei, the owner of a pet store in the Wuhou District. "We sell at least one per day on weekdays and four to five of them on Saturdays and Sundays." Recommend this article... |
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Aug
12
2010
Nottingham ferret hotel gets summer rush |
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Thursday, 12 August 2010 |
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Nottingham ferret hotel gets summer rush |
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The owner of 85 ferrets said she had not been on holiday for 16 years |
August 12, 2010
BBC
The East Midlands' only purpose-built ferret hotel is fully booked in August.
Along with the family's own 85, Clare Goddard will be looking after another 50 ferrets in the back garden of her home in Bulwell, Nottinghamshire.
The hotel started ten years ago when she let a friend's ferret board while he was on holiday. Since then the hotel has had over 800 guests.
Ms Goddard said: "It's just a bit of fun, there's no real financial reward in the business."
The ferrets eat through £250 of food every month.
The hotel is a real family affair involving Clare, her 73-year-old grandmother and her two nephews.
Between them it takes three hours a day to clean out all the cages.
Asked why the obsession with ferrets, Clare said it was all a mistake.
She used to have hamsters but when they died her mother said she couldn't have any more pets in the house. Recommend this article... |
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Jun
24
2010
Don't look back with Angoras |
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Thursday, 24 June 2010 |
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Don't look back with Angoras |
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Source: Global Times
By Tong Ting
June 22 2010
Choosing a pet can be difficult: cats are mischievous but disdainful, while dogs are more loving but can be messy and prone to needing walking. How about a neat balance between the two? Step forward, the Angora ferret, a new concept of pet for most Chinese, but nonetheless one we consider an ideal choice for even the laziest owner.
Angoras are pure breeds from Denmark and require no license to own in China, unlike dogs. Although the idea may be new here, "Ferrets have been trained as pets for over 600 years now," in the words of Fu Shuming, owner of the Angora ferret shop in Xidan, pointing to a poster of Leonardo Da Vinci's Lady with Ermine. "The animal in that painting is actually a ferret. So, at least at that time, they were already tame. Though, they were then just adopted by noble families because they are carnivores, they now eat ferret food instead." Fu received a pet ferret as a present a few years ago, fell in love with the animal and started the shop last year. She now has seven ferrets living happily in her home, of no danger to anyone except any vermin which may cross their paths (ferrets are excellent catchers of mice).
Tricks of the trade Various characteristics of the animal make the Angora ferret a perfect candidate for Beijing, according to Fu. "They are neat and quiet and need very little space, which is ideal for white-collar workers with busy schedules, living in small apartments. They're also very clever animals, with an intelligence equal to that of a 2-4 year-old child. They'll interact with their owners, and can learn all kinds of tricks like rolling, standing, swimming and kissing." Staff at Fu's shop demonstrated with a white Angora, who rolled agilely on command, receiving a ferret snack as reward.
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Jun
02
2010
Wayne is mad about ferrets |
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Wednesday, 02 June 2010 |
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Wayne's mad about ferrets |
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Merredin-Wheatbelt Mercury
June 2, 2010
WAYNE Holroyd from Nungarin feels that the reputation of ferrets has been much maligned by reports they are a pest.
On May 5, the Mercury reported that the Department of Agriculture and Food (DAF) had placed ferrets on WA’s Declared Animals List due to their potential to become a pest if released into the wild.
Mr Holroyd, who is the doting owner of eight ferrets, called the Mercury to defend his furry friends.
He said while the DAF’s concerns about feral ferrets may relevant in the southern parts of the State, ferrets could not survive in the wild in the Wheatbelt.
“The claim that ferrets are dangerous to the environment, I believe is incorrect,” he said.
“Ferrets find it very difficult to survive in the Australian environment and get sick if the temperature is more than 28 degrees Celsius.”
Mr Holroyd, who works at the Nungarin Shire, said he first became interested in ferrets four years ago because he heard they were useful for hunting rabbits.
Mr Holroyd is now a ferreting expert and often receives requests to bring his ferrets out to farms where he has trained them to drive rabbits out of their holes into nets. Recommend this article... |
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Apr
16
2010
Feisty ferrets help net pests |
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Friday, 16 April 2010 |
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Feisty ferrets help net pests |
April 16,2010
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rabbit run: a ferret has a radio transmitter fitted to its collar
in case it goes missing underground
Photo:
ALAMY |
Telegraph
By Vicky Liddell
Ferreting helps keep rabbits in check, says Vicky Liddell Mention
the word ferreter and most people imagine a clandestine character with
animals stuffed down his trousers. While this image may have been accurate
20 years ago, these days a ferreter is as likely to be an office worker
with ferrets that double as pets. Hunting rabbits with ferrets is enjoying
a revival thanks to the burgeoning rabbit population, currently estimated
at 45 million, and it is why I am standing in a field off the A12 in
north Suffolk watching professional ferreter Simon Whitehead in action.
Ferreting is an ancient field sport which has changed little over the
centuries. Armed with a spade, a box of pink-nosed ferrets and a lurcher
called Maud, Whitehead strides purposefully over the field to the honeycomb
of burrows he has covered with yellow purse nets. The only concession
to modern technology is a ferret-finder (an electronic tag), which is
linked to collars around the ferrets' necks before they are dropped into
the holes and which helps Whitehead locate his ferrets when they are
four feet down in the Suffolk soil.
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