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What It Feels Like For a Ferret Watcher

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If we get close enough we might see a pink maw and slivers of white teeth, ready to take a prairie dog by the throat and choke the life out but also rather perversely adorable. Ferret 492 — a black-footed ferret, Mustela nigripes — raises her head from a black-tailed prairie dog’s burrow, sniffs the April night.

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That Awkward Moment With Feral Cats and Family

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She captured the cats, the “mom” kitty and her kittens were all taken from their neighborhood where they were not wanted, all were fixed and then…all were released in her yard. “Why can’t the kittens be adopted,” I asked in her comments section. Are we going to put out food for coyotes?