The only wild ferret in the world is the Black footed ferret, and they were close to extinction a few years back. ferrets have been domesticated since Egyptian times, so this is pretty cool article. http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/08/070809-ferrets.html picture included in link.
Well, The east coast is having a heat wave, which means pets are not allowed to be shipped. Therefore we did not get our new pets last weekend like we were expecting too, much to our disappointment. we have to wait for it to cool down some i guess. on another note, i had my first lobster ever last night. it was pretty good, but im not crazy about it or anything. not sure what all the hype is about.
I thought this was cool, so im posting it. this is a picture taken last week from a helicopter of the brule mine. you can really see the 2 pits really well, the blind pit on the left, and the brule pit on the right. the mined out dillon pit is in the top middle with the lake in it. also, notice all the red trees in the upper part of the photo? those are all pine beetle infected trees. basically, they are dead, and…