IMPACT Episode 36: Ferrets

The final segment of IMPACT Episode 36 is about ferrets. Cute pets or destructive menaces? Impact is an award-winning television news magazine produced by journalism students at USC's Annenberg School for Communication.

Category:

News & Politics

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• USC
• University of Southern California
• USC Annenberg School for Communication
• ferrets
• pets
• impact

[Blaireausaphyr]

Um, I don't understand how ferrets can hamr the wildlife since..you know..they can't live out in the wild out on their own. Ferrets are soooo dependent of people that I just can't see them living out on their own. Besides, ferrets are inquisitive, not creatures with murdurous intente, they won't kill the ground-nesting birds..Silly people. If you don't like ferrets don't get one, but don't make them illegal.

[xXninabeanXx]

These people are very STUPID!!

they r acting like ferrets r going 2 destroy the country if they legalise them!Ferrets can NOT survive in the wild!!And that is a fact!btw ferrets r bad at hunting and the only reason other animals fear them is because of their smell:)

[sarabower1]

this bitch doesn't know shit, my ferrets wouldn't even hurt a bug

[ferrets14]

if i lived in cali there would be 1001 members :)

[Probewitch]

I couldn't stop laughing...

[purenkool]

That's right Fish & Game - it is HUMANS who

destroy,endanger wildlife & its environment.

What exactly do they endanger in NYC?

Rats? So glad I live in UK with my ferrets.

[purenkool]

Well said! Ignorance is bliss to F & G as they cannot be bothered to get the facts.

Ferrets are domestic animals who cannot fend for

themselves in the wild.

[Rizzy83]

Now what school did these so-called biologists graduate from? They're still not clear on what kind of an impact "domesticated ferrets" would have on the environment? Easy call! Zero! Out on their own, domestic ferrets wouldn't likely survive more than a few days. That said, feral packs could not exist. They just deny to end the ban because they can't admit to their own stupidity, nor accept that they ARE 100% wrong.

[AkkiMii]

Um, and they allow CATS? Do you know how many birds cats kill in a week? The ferrets in newzeland were mixed with polecats, and released to control rats.

[rabbitsrock07]

Yeah, right...Feral ferrets. They're DOMESTICATED. They CANNOT survive without us! And of course, they can harm things. They carnivores. But they've never been taught to survive in the wild.

This is soooo stupid...They don' want to admit they are wrong and pluck up the courage to legalize them.

FERRETS ROCK!

[demondfoxx]

ferrets are pets, they've been pets for thousands of years, they should be legal..the "said" only reason why they aren't is..cause they could get loose and form feral groups, and then harm birds, wish is a lie, ferrets wont last longer than 5 days, maybe even a week, out on their own..