Bill Keyes posts:

Just a quick word about the article I just posted, and a few ferret-facts.

The preceeding article refers to *hunting* ferrets, still bred in some
parts of the world.  Most ferrets that you see in pet stores and in people
homes are *domestic* ferrets.  The savagery has been bred out of them in
the years of professional breeding.

Domestic ferrets are very friendly, curious, and loyal creatures.  Hunting
ferrets are mean and bloodthirsty -- because they've been bred that way.

There's a lot of ignorant (but likely well-meaning) people out there that
don't like ferrets because of the stories propagated.  Most, if not all,
of these fears are ill-founded.

Just a small FYI.  =)

Bill. ("No, I've never been ferret-legging.")