making up the majority of the ferret diet. These voracious predators hunt them in their own burrows, and take shelter in abandoned prairie dog dwellings. Many prairie dog towns became ghost towns ...

Tina Jackson fears federal job cuts and funding freezes could imperil work to save the species from the brink of extinction.

Female ferrets that are not fixed and do not mate can succumb to aplastic anemia and potentially die, the clinic explains. While you are hopefully following a plant-based diet, your companion ...

In the early 1900s, the United States was likely home to more than 5 million ferrets. But ferrets, which hunt prairie dogs for food and live in their burrows, were almost wiped out early in the 20th ...