Posted on 04/08/2013 12:09:09 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows
An Argentinian man who thought he bought a pair of poodles at an outdoor market in Buenos Aires brought them home to the vet only to be told they were actually ferrets on steroids, reports the Daily Mail.
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It's unclear what the duped pet owners did with their faux poodles. But if you're thinking about buying a poodle at an Argentinian market, the Daily Mail has a handy guide on how to tell whether the pooch you're purchasing is actually a ferret:
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“Which one’s the ferret?”
The critter about to be eaten by a skunk.
Sadly, vindication comes too late for Rudy Giuliani.
Man, you crack me up!
If you've been bit by a ferret, then the owners were not fluent in ferret raising. I've owned dozens of ferrets, and I've never had one bite a stranger. It's really all about how they're raised and handled. Ferrets bite out of fear. If they're acclimated to people very early on, they are the most loveable, fun creatures to have as pets.
I frequent the SPCA shelters in my area to advise them against adoptions by families with small children. Ferrets are NOT child friendly by nature, and often families buy the Marshall Farms mill ferrets from a pet store and wind up giving them up for adoption because they bit a child. It just kills me seeing the signs on their cages in the shelter: "I bite!"
Well, if you were raised properly, you wouldn't.
I'm sorry you had a bad experience with them. They are a handful as far as maintenance, but they are cute little critters.
They were pining for the fjords
Well, at least it wasn’t a sausage.
The Daily Mail article called the ferret a “rat” and a “rodent” alternately. People slammed the author in the comments section mercilessly for this (a ferret is a weasel, therefore a carnivore).
Factual mistakes in The Daily Mail? Say it ain’t so!
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