Dear Lo,
1.) With reference to your getting what appears to be escaped whole
ferrets on Whidbey Isle and thoughts that a ferret breeder may be in
your area, please consider the following. That breeder, if there is
one, can be located with a little effort on your part and a lotta
effort on my part.
2.) My name is Edward Lipinski. I live on an island also and am just a
bit south and east of you. This isle is Mercer Isle and as you may know
Mercer Isle is "floating" in Lake Washington.
3.) I am a former shelter operator (ferrets, skunks, mink, weasels
(magpies and crows)) and have bred, oh gosh, since 1981 some 800 to
1,000 ferrets. I have adopted nearly all of them; those not adopted
were recently turned over to a shelter in the Kirkland area affiliated
with Doctor Skip Nelson and Docter Delaney (not sure of her full name).
Health issues and my age have mandated that I no longer operate as a
shelter, but still do what I can to succor these little guys and girls.
4.) If we assume that a breeder is operating on Whidbey and we want to
find this breeder, what do you propose to do? Escaped ferrets, intact
ferrets, these are not unheard of. I've lost a few myself, but since
I am well known as the "ferret man" all of them have been returned to
me, one in a bloody sack and others have made their way back to my
location, to be found curled up sound asleep against my front door,
first thing in the morning.
5.) Possibly the Whidbey breeder is reading this post right now. The
breeder may wish to contact you and recover his strayed ferts. Let's
hope for the best. May I suggest that you visit the local pet store
(s), determine if ferrets are being sold there (they'd likely be
unfixed and undescented, and possbly in heat) and find out who is
supplying the pet store with whole ferrets. Maybe you could make a
few flyers and post them all over the island that you wish to buy a
couple of ferrets. Most likely the breeder will reveal himself.
6.) And lastly this revelation. There is on Whidbey the US Navy
Aviation base. There are lotsa sailors there and some of them are
married living in military housing on the base or elsewhere. Deployment
away from the base for extended cruises and you got some few lonely
navy wives, who may have one or several ferret pets (not on the base
itself) gifted to them by their loving swabbies.
7.) And since duty tours seldom extend beyond two years at any one navy
base, the family has to pack up and move to the next duty station.
Sorry to say, but the family pet is not always taken along, and may be
abandoned or reluctantly given to a friend. The friend may be ignorant
to the ways of the ferret and after a while, regrets accepting the
ferret. It is turned loose or escapes into the wild.
8.) In the event you need help, please let me know and I can most
likely locate the ferret breeder, if there is one. I am a good trapper
and have trapped lost and wandering ferrets in the Cascade mountain
forests. Eventually plots of successful trap sites will reveal the
location of the breeder.
9.) Thank you for taking in the ferrets you have accepted. You sound
like my kind of lady, yes ma'am.
Edward Lipinski, Ferrets North West Foundation.
Pet Food Producer Supremacist
The Only Pre-digested Flesh/Veggie Diet in the World
A posse ad esse (Latin: From Possibility to Actuality). 01.11.2010.
[Posted in FML 6575]
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