Ok, if we’re doing this, may I humbly submit for your consideration…
(But it is even more difficult to get a permit to keep an otter in the U.S.)
Cute, but too noisy for me!
The only California-legal ferrets I’ve known have belonged to zoos or museums, and used as part of live-animal education programs. I’d be curious if it’s even possible for a private individual to get a permit.
But you can grow them from cuttings and offsets. Air layering works.
Sold in pet store or legally, because sure there are ferret breeders who don’t follow the laws.
My ferret friends have told me that a neutered ferret will get a pass from the F&G. Just don’t “shout and wave it about” as the song goes. I have not confirmed this, except one F&G agent at a booth said that would be “a very low priority”. Still, technically illegal, however.
Otters, sables, weasels are also illegal as pets in CA. Although there are quite a few weasels in a large building on 10th St, in Sacramento.
To be fair the ferret ban in California started in 1933 and they’ve just never bothered to change it. This is not the result of the current liberal government. Probably just bureaucratic inertia at this point.
There seems to be no good reason for ferrets/weasels to be banned. Most US states allow them and they’ve never been a problem. Even if they escape it seems pet ferrets do not survive long on their own.
I would have to say they they would have to be neutered, but otherwise, I agree.
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