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 ...

(COLORADO SPRINGS) — Nationwide® is holding its yearly “Wacky Pet Names” competition, and a pet ferret from Colorado Springs is one of the finalists. Ferret Bueller is named after the cult classic ...

So cute. So cuddly. So illegal. In an animal-loving nation that spends more than $41 billion a year on its 382 million assorted Marmadukes, Sylvesters, Tweetys, Nemos, Mickeys and Flickas, one popular ...

If you’re looking for a fun, non-traditional pet, ferrets may seem like an obvious choice. Unfortunately, they’re not as simple as you might think. In fact, there’s a lot you probably don’t know about ...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (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 ...

Pets can come in all shapes and sizes. While some animal lovers may consider themselves “dog” or “cat” people, others enjoy smaller pets, also referred to as “pocket pets,” like ferrets. Many people ...

Kansas State University surgeons had the rare opportunity to surgically-implant a one-of-a-kind pacemaker into a ferret named Zelda after the pet’s owner, Carl Hobi, noticed problems with the animal’s ...

To underscore the point, it shows a ferret -- a weasel-like creature banned in California since 1933 -- sniffing around Arnold Schwarzenegger’s star on Hollywood Boulevard. For untold thousands of ...