A year and a half ago I wrote a post about why I loathe California. In it I described how 5 ferrets had been removed from their family because of California’s idiotic law banning ferrets. In the course of talking with ferret people today I was reminded of that post and those five ferrets. I checked Wind & Willows Ferret Shelter website. Looks like four of the five ferrets are still with them. Since they were to be adopted out as a set I can only assume the fifth one has died. Found a link which stated that Bubba had died. They’re no longer listed as for adoption, the shelter doesn’t want to up root them again.
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Why I Loathe California
I am a Libertarian. It goes without saying that I would loathe the bluest of the blue states. I didn’t start out that way. I essentially grew up in California. My parents moved us there when I was 7 and I live there until I was in my 30s. Back when I was a Democrat I didn’t think California was all that bad. When I left I was cheering the entire drive to Las Vegas.
There are many reasons but the easiest example is the one of Candance, Bubba, Bump, Noah and Sassy. Because of an obviously idiotic law that no lawmaker in California wants to trouble themselves with removing from the books 5 loved members were separated from the rest of their Tennessee family. Why? Here’s the answer direct from the adoption page on petfinder.com.
5 bonded young ferrets from Knoxville – Tennessee owners relocated to California for work and sadly were not aware their beloved pets were criminals in the Golden State– they were stopped at the border and turned back to Reno. They contacted us and although we are full to the brim– we couldn’t say NO… WE WILL NOT SEPARATE THIS GROUP AND THEY ARE ONLY AVAILABLE TO … A KNOWLEDGABLE HOME– THEY ARE VERY SPECIAL.
California’s legislative and executive feel they know better than their citizens on how their lives should be run. To the point where they would separate cherished pets from incoming residents. Pets which pose 0 threat in spite of the claims which keep the idiotic laws on the books. Unfortunately it will be very hard for these 5 ferrets to find a new home. Common ferret adoption practice is anywhere between 1 and 3 ferrets, normally to be brought into an already multi-ferret home.
My condolences to the family that lost their ferrets to the power-hungry politicians in California. I dread losing any of my three ferrets. I couldn’t imagine loving, and losing, 5 at one time.
My hats off to the Wind & Willows Ferret Shelter in Fallon, Nv for taking them in and giving them a home. Consider making a donation to this, or a local, ferret shelter. Here’s what looks to be a decent blanket organization to do so.
And a big fuck you to the state of California. Both to the politicians who don’t have the common decency to remove the ban on ferrets and the people who don’t hold them to task for their incompitence and laziness.
