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October 28, 2009 |
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Sighting
FOUND by Sara Eschen Rogers
in Seattle, Washington
I found this trampled and weather worn note on Eastlake Avenue on my way home from a friend's house one night. It seems so earnest and helpful-- like the kid who wrote it was concerned for the neighborhood's safety.
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We collect FOUND stuff: love letters, birthday cards, kids' homework,
to-do lists, ticket stubs, poetry on napkins, telephone bills, doodles -
anything that gives a glimpse into someone
else's life. Anything goes...
Ahh..
I found someone's pet ferret one time outside of my house.
I had no idea what it was at the time. It was good (tasted like chicken).
There are increasing reports of feral ferrets attacking citizens in major North American cities. These are the offspring of escaped pets that have grow bold and are now attacking in packs of up to 12 or 15. They have a razor-sharp, double row of teeth, and they are especially dangerous around children and bare ankles.
The ferret is indigenous to the United States. Therefore "feral" ferrets are ferrets living in their natural, wild state. The black-footed ferret used to be the poster child for endangered US wildlife.
All ferrets, humanised or not, are naturally aggressive. Ferret owners of my acquaintance are always getting nipped and/or bitten by their beloved "babies" (their term, not mine.)
Ferrets are not naturally aggresive. They just need a lot of attention and need to be handled frequently. If, like any animal, a ferret feels threatened, then it will attack.
And these days they wouldnt be able to survive on their own in the wild. And for that reason, i hope this ferret got home safe and had a nice cuppa
pade a spade: weasels in the wild are weasels but if you keep them at home they're ferr
FERRET + CAT = BAD NEWS!
If I lived in this town and had a cat... I would be worried.
Will Ferrett? I remember him back before Talladega Nights, back before Elf, back in his Saturday Night Live glory days. Yeah, Ferrett was a real .... What? .... Oh, never mind then; my mistake.
Ferrets are illegal here in California. A friend of mine owned one and when the thing needed some professional care, the vet was hard to find and very expensive.
Still...cute bugger, although it was stinky. OHHH and the way they fall instantly asleep when you hold them by the skin at the back of their necks....very cool.
"Looking like a lost pet" was last seen in the wagon with the balloon being pulled by the "semi telepathic cat."
My ferret was seen running loose.
Ironically, he had been named Zeus.
He was seen with a cat
Who's telepathic at that!
Getting dragged along like a caboose.
He hitched a ride on boat to Australia and was promptly run over by a passing car.
Last seen running amok with a certain Wisconsin Badger.
http://foundmagazine.com/find/11343
http://foundmagazine.com/find/12511
rather than looking like a sad face, the face at the end of the note looks like a cantankerous old man face. Like those grumpy old Muppet men on the Muppet Show.
Dang ferret must have been wearing a pair of those American Apparel slippery stripes pants!
I thought this was rather touching. Last fall I spend 9 days in an midwestern American city searching for a lost Foxhound, and I would have been so grateful had someone posted this kind of message for us.
And yes, the foxhound was found; thin, but fine, hiding out in the woods behind a Hospice. Best Found of all, for us.
"Loose looking".
Like an American Apparel model.
@ Journalist: Just thought I'd warn you. Some folks don't take kindly to personal anecdotes around here. I've only been posting here for 8 days. So it was easy to go back & check out my posts to try to understand why I'm being maligned (told to get a blog, to get a friend who can stomach my shit).
Out of 39 posts, only two (yeah, 2) were personal anecdotes, responding to another person's comment. The other 37 comments were short, to the point & directly related to the find.
I've been reading the comments here at Find for about a year. So I know I don't post any more frequently than the "regulars." And none of my comments are any longer than theirs. So I just don't know what gives. Why do people have to be so ugly & hateful when a new person tries to join the fun?
@ Eusta B, thanks for your concern, and don't let the weasels get you down. You have to realize that the people who have time to post constantly on this site and spend hours crafting their cleverly snarky remarks have little else going on in their dreary little lives. They deserve your pity. I do hope that one day you'll have reason to change your name to "Wild" Lee.
@Eusta & Journalist - hey those weren't more anecdotes were they? We're watching you. Well maybe they are ...not me though.
"Wild" Lee...I like how that sounds.
HPD: I've already sinned once by straying off the subject.
Ahhh...so many stories, so little time. Ever feel that way?
@Journalist ... and don't let the ferrets get Eusta down either!
I am glad you found the foxhound
Do you all know about www.awkwardfamilyphotos.com? Not quite as addictive as Found, but equally entertaining.
Don't take it personally, Eusta B., I bet it's just hazing. You have to go through it before you become a Foundian.
I hate the word Foundian.
Someone said Foundlings the other day. I kinda like that one.
Some guy living near here has pet ferrets. He is often on the station platform (or on the train) with one on a dog-lead and the other one hiding in the hood of his anorak. Passers-by mostly think they're sweet but occasionally get spooked by them.
The animals seem genuinely unagressive and probably a bit sleepy. I don't know if I'd risk stroking one on the nose though.