Ferrets Anonymous, how weird California's laws are!

[LadySmith]

California: where the legislators think they rule the people and the people pretend to be ruled.

[Gewehr98]

Warren speak true.

Everybody there knows the tube weasels are illegal, but they still go about their business and keep them anyway.

We almost bought one when we lived in Citrus Heights, but we didn't know how well it would've gotten along with our cat.

My neighbors in Florida had a pair of ferrets, and I was woken up several nights by two furry little guys looking to play.

They snuck out in the middle of the night, came in via my roommate's cat door, and proceeded to entertain themselves. 

Sleeping humans are indeed fair game, it appears.   

[Matthew Carberry]

Warren speak true.

Everybody there knows the tube weasels are illegal, but they still go about their business and keep them anyway.

We almost bought one when we lived in Citrus Heights, but we didn't know how well it would've gotten along with our cat.

My neighbors in Florida had a pair of ferrets, and I was woken up several nights by two furry little guys looking to play.

They snuck out in the middle of the night, came in via my roommate's cat door, and proceeded to entertain themselves. 

Sleeping humans are indeed fair game, it appears.   

Thank heaven they don't get any bigger.

[Balog]

I lurv me some ferrets. I can't wait to get a house so I can buy a couple.

[Gewehr98]

Thank heaven they don't get any bigger.

Oh, they were an absolute riot, and I felt bad carrying the squirmy little dudes back to the neighbor's house several nights in a row, waking them up and asking them if they were missing somebody.  I figured I could just close my bedroom door, and would've loved to have an open-door ferret policy in the house, but I rented from my roommate, and he wasn't too keen on a ferret/cat dual residency. 

It's unnerving, though, having a couple little ferret noses twittering in your face when you're sleeping.  They were just curious and looking for fun, but if you didn't know any better (and I didn't the first night it happened) then you're in for a bit of a shock.

[Strings]

Heh... girl I used to date had one of the definitions of True Evil: a ferret with it's own brain.

Little known fact: 95-99% of the ferrets in the world all share one brain. If you watch them, you can see when one gets his turn: he'll stop, look around kinda stunned... then his turn is over, and he continues bouncing sideways along.

But Ferdinand had a brain all his own: the ONLY place in that apartment he couldn't get to was the bloody ceiling fan. There were cupboards WE had trouble getting into, that he had no issues with.

 While I was dating her, I had to treat my boots in the morning like I was in a desert: shake 'em out before putting 'em on. Seems the tube kitties thought cav boots were the PERFECT place to sleep...

[Balog]

My wife had a bad day: I had her picture ferrets frisking with a puppy to cheer her up. :)

[MillCreek]

To steal from Dave Barry, "Strangling the Ferret" would be an excellent name for a rock band.

[Gun Runner]

Nice marmots!

[BlueStarLizzard]

i love ferrets too.

whenever we have them at the kennel i always call ferret duty. we have two that used to come in often. Izzy and Tizzy. those two and a jingly cat toy could entertain for hours.

i did once see a special about ferret fanciers on PBS and i must say they might actually be crazier then dog fanciers. (BTW, i have come to the conclusion that all those who breed, show and devote their life to a particular animal are nuts, myself included.  )

[Antibubba]

  We almost bought one when we lived in Citrus Heights, but we didn't know how well it would've gotten along with our cat.

When did you live in Citrus Heights?

[Gewehr98]

1994-1999 for Citrus Heights.

1991-1994 we lived in Orangevale, just down Greenback Lane a smidgen. 

[Jamisjockey]

When I was a kid we lived on El Toro Marine Base.  There was an open field next to the playground.  I remember there were these ferret-like critters that roamed that field, not sure if they were wild weasels of some kind or ferrets, but I remember them pretty well.  We'd stand along the fence and watch them during recess.  Maybe 6th grade.

[Antibubba]

Before my time--I didn't get out here until 2002.

[Matthew Carberry]

When I was a kid we lived on El Toro Marine Base.  There was an open field next to the playground.  I remember there were these ferret-like critters that roamed that field, not sure if they were wild weasels of some kind or ferrets, but I remember them pretty well.  We'd stand along the fence and watch them during recess.  Maybe 6th grade.

Did they have J79 turbofan engines?  Cause then yes, those were Wild Weasels.

[Gewehr98]

The Marines didn't have Wild Weasels.

Those were the poor guys in the USAF F-100s, F-105s, and eventually Lead Sleds (aka, F-4G Phantoms), doing their best to get a missile radar locked on them so they could shoot back at the SAM site that painted them.   

F-16s are doing the same thing now.

The program was originally dubbed "Project Ferret". 

[Regolith]