When I found my little buddy, Doobie, I was riding my mountain bike with my
friend.  We rode by a cemetary located on a university campus (right next
to a dorm that doesn't allow pets) when my friend heard a noise behind him.
When he looked he saw a less-than-year-old nearly starved ferret chasing
after us out of the cemetary.  He befriended us immediately and I gave him
a home.  I posted signs (though admittedly not very extensively) and spread
the word around that I had found him.  He got his shots, a very nice cage,
and very loving parents who nursed him back to health.  My theory is that
a kid in a dorm got caught with the illegal pet, and rather than finding
a good home left him in the woody cemetary to fend for himself.  I am
astonished that anyone could be so cruel to dump a juvenile domestic
ferret, let alone watch one starve.  I would personally like to meet this
little girl, and her parents, that would be willing to kill a pet so
slowly and painfully.  Sick, sad world we live in...
 
Bill
[Posted in FML issue 3417]