Archive for the 'Ferrets' Category
November is Adopt a Senior Pet Month
Tuesday, November 6th, 2007Fall in love with a senior pet during November! Even though Senior Pets have a shorter life expectancy after adoption, they can be truly rewarding pets. Senior pets are already housebroken and more often than not have a few tricks already up their paws! Adopting a senior pet gives them a few more wonderful years [...]
Government considering using ferrets to control prairie dogs
Saturday, October 13th, 2007In Kansas, the federal government is considering an experiment that would use ferrets to reduce the exploding population of prairie dogs in Logan County. The five-year experiment would be administered by the Kansas Ecological Office of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in Manhattan. Four landowners in the county said they would take part in [...]
BLM Auction of Ferret Habitat
Friday, October 12th, 2007Energy development and environmental protection are clashing yet again, this time in Colorado, where the Bureau of Land Management yesterday auctioned 150,000 acres of turf for oil and gas development. For months now, we’ve heard noise out of the BLM that their top goal is a reorganization to create a “one stop shop” for energy [...]
Rescued Ferrets in Trouble Again
Wednesday, October 10th, 2007Disease that’s afflicting their only prey, the prairie dog, is slowing their rebound in wild. WALL, S.D. — Black-footed ferrets — weasels with a burglar’s mask that were brought back after reaching the brink of extinction — are facing a new challenge from the spread of plague in prairie dogs, their only prey. The disease [...]
Abused ferret finds a few friends
Sunday, October 7th, 2007Buddy was near death a year ago. He was malnourished, underweight and severely dehydrated. He required weeks of intensive veterinary care. Almost more shocking than his condition was his recovery. Buddy is one of numerous pet ferrets that are mistreated, neglected and abused each year. Buddy’s original owner was a member of Ferret Friends of [...]
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