Ferrets Anonymous, how weird California's laws are!

[gunsmith]

http://www.laweekly.com/2009-03-12/la-vida/the-fuzzy-underground-a-clandestine-meeting-with-ferrets-anonymous/2

The Fuzzy Underground: A Clandestine Meeting With Ferrets Anonymous
Continued from page 1
Published on March 11, 2009 at 7:16pm

Still, the California ferret’s most menacing natural predator is the Department of Fish and Game officer. When Ferrets Anonymous members are in a grim mood, they talk, in hushed tones, about the officers at agricultural-inspection stations along state borders who used to strangle ferrets on the spot while horrified owners looked on.

    
 I don't mind people having one cute Ferret
but why do people need 2 or three?
& why do people need those evil black footed Ferrets?

Once when I was a pizza delivery guy in Reno, a lady had 3 Ferrets
just hanging out with her IN THE OPEN!!
(gasp! shock! horror!)
they did some kind of happy dance and were super cute, it was horrible!
I knew it was legal, but how can we expect to turn America into a socialist worker paradise if people are allowed Ferrets?

[Rudy Kohn]

When ferrets are outlawed, only outlaws will have ferrets.

[seeker_two]

The government's only going after those evil, black, high-capacity assault ferrets....they'll leave our single, brown, sport-hunting ferrets alone....


 

[MechAg94]

I guess none of them want to move out of California? 

[MicroBalrog]

I guess none of them want to move out of California? 

Well, they clearly deserve it, then.

[Doggy Daddy]

I was in Walmart's pet department yesterday, there was no ferret food on the shelves!  Saw just a few accessories:  a ball, a little collar... but no food!

Clerk said they got a pallet in 2 days ago, and one guy bought it all up.

[Nightfall]

...officers at agricultural-inspection stations along state borders who used to strangle ferrets on the spot while horrified owners looked on.

Seriously?  Wait, what... seriously? ?

[Phyphor]

No *expletive deleted*it.  That would be the fastest way to get introduced to my tire iron.  They could order me to turn back, but strangling my ferret?  Yea, I'd be going to jail.

[Viking]

What's up with these "inspection stations" anyway? Is California the only state that have those? Any WHY are they there in the first place?

[Zardozimo Oprah Bannedalas]

What's up with these "inspection stations" anyway? Is California the only state that have those? Any WHY are they there in the first place?

I guess they're aiming for the banana republic/Soviet Bloc look. Don't know of any other states that do it... and this was before 9/11. The excuse that I recall was something about fruit parasites... I think. Didn't allow any out-of-state produce.

[MicroBalrog]

This is why the modern state is not merely inefficient.

It is immoral and evil. Contemplate the cruelty of strangling someone's beloved pet before their very eyes. Imagine someone strangled your dog or cat before you and you couldn't do anything to stop them. Now, nobody is going to start a civil war over ferrets. Almost nobody even feels any compassion for ferret owners - after all 'they knew the law' and 'they could move away'.

But the modern state is comprised of dozens of little abuses like this, against people who cut their shotguns too short, or carry guns without a special piece of paper, or God knows what else. And the people who do not engage in a given activity don't really care about the guys who get abused for it.

But add up the ferrets and the guns and the dozens of other little things together, and eventually you're at the point of genuine evil. I posit that we in the West have long passed this point.

[gunsmith]

What's up with these "inspection stations" anyway? Is California the only state that have those? Any WHY are they there in the first place?

They are agricultural inspection stations, they ask you if you're bringing in fruit, vegetables - in order to protect against
fruit fly and other epidemics. They also fear Ferrets for some reason,I can't understand why, they're the cutest little things you ever wanna see.
They really do jump around and dance for joy.

[grislyatoms]

Yea, I'd be going to jail.

Me, too.





Blizzard follows me all over the house like a little puppy. That is when she is not conspiring with Rascal to get into something verboten...

The reasons why they are illegal in California include the fear that they will form feral packs bent on ravaging crops and livestock.

Nonsense. In the U.S., ferrets are descented and neutered/spayed before they are sold. Intact males stink to high heaven and females would die of anemia if they weren't altered. Domestic ferrets can't hunt. They retain the instinct, but can't apply it. I have read from a couple of sources that a domestic ferret would last three days on their own. 

[grislyatoms]

They are agricultural inspection stations, they ask you if you're bringing in fruit, vegetables - in order to protect against
fruit fly and other epidemics. They also fear Ferrets for some reason,I can't understand why, they're the cutest little things you ever wanna see.
They really do jump around and dance for joy.

The latest thing for mine are plastic grocery bags. I make a pile of bags in the floor and put them in the middle of the pile.

Chaos ensues. 

I have never had more entertaining pets.

[Gewehr98]

Nothing new.

Kalifornia has had issues with pet ferrets for many years.

I knew about the ferret ban when I lived there from 1989 to 1999.

It's all in black and white, a law unique to Kalifornia, (as are many) but it's there for the reading.

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1568/is_n4_v28/ai_18684657

The folks I knew who owned ferrets out there were smart enough not to talk about them, and bought cat food, or drove to Nevada to buy ferret chow.

(Not unlike all the EBR owners out there who simply went underground vs. registering them with the Kalifornia DOJ...)

Things may be looking up for Kalifornicators, though.  The Department of Fish & Game is due to release an Environmental Impact study, after being pressured to legalize ferret ownership out there by the Kalifornia Assembly. 

I'd be more worried about feral cats, packs of wild dogs, and hordes of unsterilized San Franciscans than I ever would a population of wild ferrets, honestly.

The Ag stations?

There were big problems with produce being transported into the state with all sorts of potentially damaging vectors/blights/etc.  Kalifornia crops were at serious risk, and we all know which state is a leader in agricultural products. Hence the Ag inspections stations. 

Hawaii does something very similar.

[Azrael256]

I guess they're aiming for the banana republic/Soviet Bloc look. Don't know of any other states that do it... and this was before 9/11.

Other way 'round.  Banana commies got the idea from California.  It pre-dates 9/11 by at least seven decades.  California inspection stations appear in The Grapes Of Wrath.

[RocketMan]

...hordes of unsterilized San Franciscans.

Easy there, you'll scare the children.

[Antibubba]

Technically, with a weasel ban we should be able to disband the Assembly.

[RevDisk]

about the officers at agricultural-inspection stations along state borders who used to strangle ferrets on the spot while horrified owners looked on.

Wait...   WHAT?   Who the hell strangles citizen's gorram pets on the side of the road?   Where are the lawsuits or dead bodies?   

I mean, I joke about the People's Republic of California, but that's seriously so messed up it's not even funny.

[Gewehr98]

You should live there sometime, RevDisk. 

You ain't seen nothin', yet.   

[RevDisk]

You should live there sometime, RevDisk. 

You ain't seen nothin', yet.   

Do you honestly think I'm mentally retarded enough to visit PRC voluntarily?  Army didn't have many bases there, thankfully.

Working with folks from former Communist occupied countries (Poland, Ukraine, etc) cured me of any illusions of life on the other side of a checkpoint.  Hell, even the moderate communists in the Balkans had the sense to aim their friggin tanks at the USSR.


I'm sure it's beautiful country, and has tons of wonderful... whatever.  But no thank you.  I like walking into a store, buying whatever armament I can afford, and walking back out again with it in my hot little hands.  I like knowing I can have virtually any pet I damn well please, without forming an Underground, without feeding grub to my pet that I know isn't good for him because the real food is apparently forbidden (cat food isn't good for ferrets), without praying the police don't kick in my door to strangle my pet. 

I've been mugged by ferrets and I still honestly don't understand a government that would employ people to strangle them.  That's beyond mental.  That's evil.

[BridgeRunner]

I don't mind people having one cute Ferret
but why do people need 2 or three?

Probably for the same reason I need two or three rifles.

[Balog]

I think that was his point Bridgy.

[gunsmith]

I don't mind people having one cute Ferret
but why do people need 2 or three?

Probably for the same reason I need two or three rifles.

NOOOOOOOOOOooooooooooooooooOOoooooooooooooOOOOOOOOOOOOoooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!


I am totally pro Ferret! any amount of ferrets! I only meant that tongue in cheek!

when Ferrets are outlawed, only outlaws will own ferrets!!!
( we all know only the fiercest of outlaws have ferrets! )

[just Warren]

The local pet shops all have ferret supplies and books and magazines devoted to the care of, so it is obvious that there is a bunch of ferret owners here.

It's a nudge nudge wink wink sort of thing.