Hi everyone!! I have been reading about these phantom colonies of wild ferrets you have prancing around Utah and other provinces. As Bob C said here in Australia there are no wild ferrets. the life expectancy for a lost or dumped ferret especially in summer is if they can find water 10 day max, and I have seen these poor little babies after this time. Some hero dumped 2 ferrets at a lake in a suburb just outside Perth, now these ferrets had water but no food, does your ferret know how to hunt for food in the metro area? mine certainly dont, they were just these little things with no hair and no flesh just these poor little darlings with skin holding their bones together. And surely if you had these wild populations of ferrets , wouldn't you have alot more reports of babies and small children being dragged away by these fierce predators, because this is what ferrets do isnt it? if no one can prove it then they can say what they like, cant they. Rex the rambunctious Patches the pretty Tisha the terrible Fox the fast ( LOL!! not at 1.5kg ) and Mr Pookie Bear who nothing rhymes with !! [Posted in FML issue 1979]