Don’t dump unwanted ferrets outside

Recently, there seem to be an awful lot of ferrets found out in the world, wandering through yards, hiding in garages and crossing major highways. Sure, some of these ferrets have escaped (we know what escape artists they are) but some are being dumped.

If you know anyone who no longer wants their ferret, please direct them to a ferret shelter or local Humane agency. It is far more cruel to let a ferret loose to slowly starve to death, be killed by another animal or hit by a car, than to have them humanely euthanized. Yes, they are better off dead than wandering outside.

Don’t abandon them in your apartment.

Don’t throw them out your car window in traffic.

Don’t put them, cage and all, in a dumpster.

They won’t be okay, they cannot live in the wild, and they will die a horrible death if someone doesn’t find them first.

In the last 2 weeks, I have taken in SIX ferrets who were abandoned. Four were in an apartment building basement with cage and a bin of filthy hammocks. Two were found (in separate incidents) wandering a 4-lane highway in Monroeville. In the past, I’ve taken in ferrets that people witnessed being thrown out of car windows. What the heck?

Where would you have to be in your life to do something like that?

It is up to everyone as a community to care for those creatures who can’t care for themselves. If you know of an animal in danger, do something about it. Please. If you see a ferret outside, grab it! It is probably moments away from death.

A big thank you to those people out there who cared enough to save the ferrets.

All the photos in this post are of ferrets who had been abandoned or who were found outside. These are only some of the ferrets who have been turned in to my rescue! These were just the photos I could find easily.

In the most recent incident (ferrets found in Monroeville), they were found on different days in almost the same section of highway. I don’t know why they survived. The nails were so long they had trouble walking, and the ears were filthy with terrible ear mite infestations. It is obvious they were not being cared for properly. What is wrong with the world?