Will California ever let ferrets out of the dog house?

I’m in Michigan for the next few months, a state where ferrets are legal as pets. As might be expected, they have over-run the countryside. I can barely walk to my mailbox without having a pack of ravenous, marauding little ferts try to attack and eat me and my dogs.

Oh, wait. Just as in every other of the 48 states where ferrets are legal, they have never created the slightest problem by reverting to a feral state and promiscuously over-populating the wilds of the Midwest.

And they won’t if my home state of California lifts its idiotic, unscientific ban on them, either.

But hey, that’s just my opinion. How about some facts?

LegalizeFerrets.org submitted a preliminary Environmental Impact Report, prepared at their own expense, to the California Fish and Game Department last September. The response so far? Crickets.

This is an email the organization’s director, Pat Wright, sent to the Department today, which he cc’d to me and other reporters who’ve written about this issue in the past:

Hello Mr. Mastrup,

We have been waiting a long time for the Fish and Game Department to review the preliminary Environmental Impact Report that Dr Graening first submitted to the Department back in September 2010.

I’m sure you can understand our impatience and frustration.

At a time when the state of California is so broke that California Supreme Court orders the release of tens of thousands of inmates we find illogical that the Fish and Game Commission and Department won’t move on this item; to free hundreds of thousands of ferrets from the burden of an ineffective and unfair ban.

Releasing the citizens of California from this ban would no doubt generate some funds for the state of California and reduce the overreaching bureaucracy we suffer from.

We would be interested in funding staff time if that would speed the process up. Are you able to give us the expense so that we can start the fundraising to get this issue moving?

Thank you and I hope you don’t mind that I make this letter public to the press.

Pat Wright
LegalizeFerrets.org

How about it, California? Ferret lovers have consistently willing to put their money where there hearts are, into the cause of lifting this stupid ban. Why don’t you take them up on their offer and get this thing moving?

Photo: Vicious beasts, aren’t they?

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