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This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. NEW YORK – Ferrets are banned in New York ...

Grace, a 23-year-old who lives on the Upper East Side, has a plan if she’s ever stopped by a cop when she’s walking her three ferrets — Mina, Amy and Louie — in Central Park. “My roommate [will] say ...

MEETEETSE, Wyo. – An endangered weasel is returning to an area of western Wyoming where the critter almost went extinct more than 30 years ago. Biologists plan to release 35 black-footed ferrets ...

NEW YORK -- For 15 years, ferrets in New York City have been living in the shadows, outlawed under Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, who famously told a ferret fancier that "this excessive concern with little ...

Dec. 11 (UPI) --A Maine woman said an animal initially believed to be a rat and later thought to be an escaped ferret was eventually discovered to be a weasel in her ceiling. Kassondra Dale said she ...

My encounters with urban wildlife just keep coming. No sooner had I “herded” the hummingbird out of my upstairs bedroom for the second time last week, than a fat red-breasted robin flew through the ...

It looks like former Mayor Rudy Giuliani’s ferret freak out was for naught. The Board of Health and Mayor Bill de Blasio are seriously considering abolishing New York City’s ferret ban this coming ...