So I'm on my way home last night, a little later than usual after stopping after work to visit a friend, and my cell phone rings. I answer and listen as a distraught young man explains to me that he found two ferrets in a pillow case (tied at the top) on a pile of leaves on a street near campus. I'm almost home and so I make a quick turn around and head back to town and we agree to meet. He assures me before we hang up that the ferrets are safe till I get there (10-15 minutes). As I pull into the parking lot he sees my little white Grand Am with the FERRETS license plates and flags me down. He pulls out a large plastic tub with a nice fleece blanket and two baby ferrets. He said he was walking down the street and heard a rustling in the leaves, looked and noticed a pillowcase that was moving so he picked it up, untied the top and looked inside. He was quite surprised to find two young ferrets squirming around (I'm guessing 10 weeks). His mom is a vet tech so he knows about ferrets even though he's never had them before and when he found them he knew he couldn't take proper care of them so he used a search app on his phone and found FFS. I hugged both little ones then placed them in the cage in my car. The little girl (a very light cinnamon blaze) snuggled under the cover and quickly went to sleep. The little boy (a dark blaze) rustled around the cage a bit then laid protectively on top of the blanket and his companion and he too went to sleep. Trying to get these two to eat was a bit of a challenge, until we moistened Marshalls then they dove right in. My guess is they were from the local Petco and hadn't been away from there very long. The why of what happened haunts me. I know the little ones are safe now but I wonder how can anyone do this to these sweet innocent babies... there are other like taking them back to the pet store, or turning them over to the local shelter, or as this young man did - contact me.... how can anyone think this type of action is O.K. to do???? How frightened they must have been... it cuts into my heart... it makes me angry beyond words.... Thank goodness this young man heard the rustling and knew about ferrets. tle www.ferretfamilyservices.org [Posted in FML 7227]