>Yes, the BFF is wild.  Do you know why it is called a ferret?  When the
>colonists came to America and first saw the BFF they called it a *ferret*
>because it looked like the ferrets they brought over on their ships to
>catch rodents.
 
I don't think our colonists ever saw a Black Footed Ferret.  Please,
someone correct me if I am wrong here, but the DFF lives exclusively on
the Great Plains...its food source was/is the prairie dog.  I don't
believe our settlers made it to the Great Plains until the mid to late
1700's.
 
MC (Joe, The rude one)
[Posted in FML issue 2237]