In this Wednesday, Dec. 19, 2012 photo, Pat Wright, an advocate for legalizing ferret ownership in California, gets a kiss from one his three ferrets at his home in La Mesa, Calif. The ferrets live ...

Take one look at a happy ferret at play, and you'll immediately understand why so many people love them. They're so effusively energetic, constantly moving, playing, and exploring - and when they're ...

SACRAMENTO (AP) — California's ferret owners are tired of being criminals. They live in the only U.S. state besides Hawaii that bans residents from keeping ferrets as pets, forcing an untold number of ...

Ferrets scampered into the national spotlight this year when the comedy "Along Came Polly" featured a running gag about Jennifer Aniston's character's blind pet ferret. These sleek, furry creatures, ...

Some people call ferrets the court jesters of the pet world. They are cute, playful, curious and affectionate, but don't fall for the marketing hype that caring for one, or two, or five, is easy and ...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (Reuters) - Pat Wright loves his three ferrets - even though they do sometimes bite and he's had to replace the baseboards in part of his house after they urinated for years along ...

The director of the Oregon Ferret Shelter fears that the shelter may have to move or close because of a zoning issue it faces with Clackamas County. When Chris Mathis and her husband, David, purchased ...