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> no jurisdiction reported ferrets impacting native wildlife Hum, so what do they found that those ferrets eat? tacos?

• tzs 4y ago
  Most places have a variety of animals such as rabbits and mice and rats in sufficient numbers that a few getting eaten by the rare escaped domestic ferrets won't impact the population of those animals. Pet ferrets usually don't last long if they escape and almost always are fixed so they cannot breed. They aren't likely to spread very far from where they escaped, and so the wild animals they might kill are going to almost all be the kind of animals that thrive around humans. Allowing ferrets might even be a net positive for the local native species, because some people who would have gotten a cat might instead choose a ferret, and an escaped ferret would likely do much less damage than an escaped cat (and that's not even taking into account that many people regularly let their cats roam free outside, which I don't think many ferret owners do).