22 FERRET FACTS AND FANCIES. 



not only animals much larger and powerful than 

 themselves but are able to enter any den or hole 

 that a rat can, especially the small sized ferret 

 can enter any rat den. 



Although ferrets (as the animals are called 

 and best known in this country) are native of a 

 warm country — Africa — they can be raised in 

 nearly all parts of America, the exceptions being 

 parts of Alaska, Northern Canada and the colder 

 and high mountain sections of the United States. 

 Some raisers are inclined to think that the brown 

 variety, wherever raised, have the stronger eyes 

 as more of the white kind apparently go blind or 

 suffer from weak eyes than of the brown variety. 

 Ferrets that are handled a great deal gen- 

 erally become quite tome. The animal is pos- 

 sessed of more intelligence than usually known. 

 Those kept and handled for months are apt to 

 become so tame that they will not leave even 

 when given freedom but are on hand at feeding 

 time. In several instances ferrets and cats have 

 been known to eat from same dish. Others be- 

 come so attached to their owner, that they are at 

 his heels much of the time, when he is around the 

 premises. A boy, near Chicago, had a 2-year-old 

 ferret that followed him one evening for miles. 

 Just after dark he started to walk to a place, 

 nearly three miles, on an errand. The errand 



