Ferrets tend to be more playful in the way you’d expect from a dog or cat, while rabbits are more mellow. They do love to run ...

When ferrets are happy and having fun, they can also make this soft squeaking sound called "dooking" that is just adorable. If you want the energetic playfulness of a dog without the loud bark ...

A detection dog has joined the fight to save seabirds on Rathlin Island. Woody, the two-year-old Fox Red Labrador, will help trace any remaining ferrets on the island. The ferrets pose a threat to ...

This animal's long slender body, like that of a weasel, enables it to crawl in and out of the holes and dwellings of its primary prey—the prairie dog. Though black-footed ferrets sometimes eat ...

Other animals benefit from their labors. Burrows may be shared by snakes, burrowing owls, and even rare black-footed ferrets, which hunt prairie dogs in their own dwellings. Family groups (a male ...

These ferrets are carnivores that mainly eat black-tailed prairie dogs, another grassland species facing population decline. In the years following the ferrets’ reintroduction, the park ...