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MEETEETSE, Wyo. – An endangered weasel is returning to an area of western Wyoming where the critter almost went extinct more than 30 years ago. Biologists plan to release 35 black-footed ferrets ...

Grace, a 23-year-old who lives on the Upper East Side, has a plan if she’s ever stopped by a cop when she’s walking her three ferrets — Mina, Amy and Louie — in Central Park. “My roommate [will] say ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. NEW YORK – Ferrets are banned in New York ...

A WASHINGTON Heights man trying to get his stolen ferret back from a group of hoodlums was savagely beaten outside his home, police said yesterday. The ferret disappeared earlier this week and owner ...

BEN Stiller and Jennifer Aniston have an easy chemistry in the romantic comedy “Along Came Polly” – but no love was lost between Stiller and the ferret who plays a pivotal comic role in the film.

A Stevens County woman overwhelmed with ferrets has surrendered 47 of her 89 pets to Ferret Haven, a Spokane-based rescue organization that now says it needs help from the community care for the ...

NEW YORK -- For 15 years, ferrets in New York City have been living in the shadows, outlawed under Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, who famously told a ferret fancier that "this excessive concern with little ...

NEW YORK (AP) — For 15 years, ferrets in New York City have been living in the shadows, outlawed under Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, who famously told a ferret fancier that “this excessive concern with ...

It looks like former Mayor Rudy Giuliani’s ferret freak out was for naught. The Board of Health and Mayor Bill de Blasio are seriously considering abolishing New York City’s ferret ban this coming ...

My encounters with urban wildlife just keep coming. No sooner had I “herded” the hummingbird out of my upstairs bedroom for the second time last week, than a fat red-breasted robin flew through the ...