<http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/28/nyregion/de-blasios-latest-break-with-his-predecessors-ending-a-ban-on-ferrets.html>

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And it would be the de Blasio administration's latest effort to roll
back the more controversial policies of former Mayor Rudolph W.
Giuliani, who instituted the ferret ban in 1999 and once accused
an advocate for the animals of suffering from "a sickness."

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