My God!  A friend has just moved to New Zealand, and today she wrote me a
note and said:
 
>We were at a talk the other day and I discovered to my horror that ferrets
>are considered pests down here because there are a lot of them and they eat
>up shrubs and leaves etc.  We were shocked!!  I told Ken that the ferrets
>who were pests were not related to Maddy or Theodore!!
 
What kind of ferret would this be?  I understand that my ferrets are mustela
putorius furo - right?  So what kind of ferret is running around wild in New
Zealand?
 
cmc
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[Posted in FML issue 1357]