In this Wednesday, Dec. 19, 2012 photo, Pat Wright, an advocate for legalizing ferret ownership in California, gets a kiss from one his three ferrets at his home in La Mesa, Calif. The ferrets live ...

First, make sure you’re living somewhere where they’re legal to own. California, Hawaii, and New York City ban ferret ownership entirely, and many municipalities throughout the U.S. may have similar ...

The caption reads, “I present to the world my sister’s ferret. She is 14 years old,” and that alone is enough to stop you.

Ferrets scampered into the national spotlight this year when the comedy "Along Came Polly" featured a running gag about Jennifer Aniston's character's blind pet ferret. These sleek, furry creatures, ...

So cute. So cuddly. So illegal. In an animal-loving nation that spends more than $41 billion a year on its 382 million assorted Marmadukes, Sylvesters, Tweetys, Nemos, Mickeys and Flickas, one popular ...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) -- California's ferret owners are tired of being criminals. They live in the only U.S. state besides Hawaii that bans residents from keeping ferrets as pets, forcing an untold ...

To underscore the point, it shows a ferret -- a weasel-like creature banned in California since 1933 -- sniffing around Arnold Schwarzenegger’s star on Hollywood Boulevard. For untold thousands of ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) – The difference between owning a ferret in Hawaii and one in Pennsylvania can be up to three years in jail – and hundreds of thousands of dollars in fines. That’s the penalty for ...