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Koopa is cooking up something special
04/30/2026

Koopa is cooking up something special

He's a beautiful butterfly.
04/30/2026

He's a beautiful butterfly.

Ferret life is the best life🥰🥰
04/30/2026

Ferret life is the best life🥰🥰

So SWEET 💥💕🙏🌺😊
04/30/2026

So SWEET 💥💕🙏🌺😊

Kalisto is a dope
04/30/2026

Kalisto is a dope

The strange ways we are sometimes able to help ferrets...Nice young woman from the Bronx phoned. She'd been on the stree...
04/29/2026

The strange ways we are sometimes able to help ferrets...
Nice young woman from the Bronx phoned. She'd been on the street and saw a woman carrying a ferret. Stopping to pet it, the woman asked "do you want it? I can't take care anymore and was gonna put it on the street."
Peyton VERY KINDLY took the ferret, but after calling local shelters, discovered ferrets weren't legal so none would take it. And she didn't really want an illegal alien, either!
We were able to connect her to Dave Lowrey of Scales & Tails shelter in New Jersey and within days the ferret was delivered to his capable hands.
Thank you to Peyton, who really went out of her way to help a ferret, to Dave, and to our donors/supporters who make our work possible.

Am I beautiful say YES or NO ♥️
04/29/2026

Am I beautiful say YES or NO ♥️

In 1987, the Last 18 Black-Footed Ferrets on Earth Were Captured for a Breeding Programme Nobody Was Sure Would Work. To...
04/29/2026

In 1987, the Last 18 Black-Footed Ferrets on Earth Were Captured for a Breeding Programme Nobody Was Sure Would Work. Today There Are Over 300 in the Wild.

Eighteen animals. Every single one caught. Every single one put in a zoo.

The Black-Footed Ferret — Mustela nigripes — was declared extinct in 1979. Then in 1981, a ranch dog in Meeteetse, Wyoming brought home something unusual. A ferret. A survey found a small wild colony. By 1987, disease and continued population decline had reduced that colony to 18 individuals.

Wildlife managers made the call. Capture all of them. Captive breed.

It was controversial. Removing every animal from the wild to breed in captivity meant accepting that the wild population was finished. There was no safety net. If the breeding programme failed, the species was gone.

It didn't fail.

By 1991, the first captive-bred ferrets were reintroduced to Wyoming. The process was slow, setback-prone, and required decades of management — prairie dog colony restoration, disease management, continued monitoring. Black-Footed Ferrets depend almost entirely on prairie dogs for food and shelter.

Today: approximately 300–400 wild individuals, with ongoing releases every year. Not recovered. Not stable. But alive, and increasing.

From 18 to hundreds. Because someone captured them all and refused to give up.

𝗔𝗺 𝗶 𝗯𝗲𝗮𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗳𝘂𝗹 𝘀𝗮𝘆 𝗬𝗲𝘀 𝗼𝗿 𝗡𝗼 ❤️
04/29/2026

𝗔𝗺 𝗶 𝗯𝗲𝗮𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗳𝘂𝗹 𝘀𝗮𝘆 𝗬𝗲𝘀 𝗼𝗿 𝗡𝗼 ❤️

Nail clip day and Billie Eyelash was jellied! My girl was in that deep sleep 😴 💤
04/29/2026

Nail clip day and Billie Eyelash was jellied! My girl was in that deep sleep 😴 💤

𝗦𝗔𝗬 𝗬𝗘𝗦 𝗜𝗙 WE ARE REALLY BEAUTIFUL 😻
04/28/2026

𝗦𝗔𝗬 𝗬𝗘𝗦 𝗜𝗙 WE ARE REALLY BEAUTIFUL 😻

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