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The Electric Buzz Utah's Electronic High School Salt Lake City, UT
Issue Date: Saturday, July 10, 2010 Issue: School Is In Session Last Update: Tuesday, March 26, 2013
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            The ferret started off his killing spree on 687 south in Mt. Pleasant, Utah at about 3pm.  He found a place to stay and watched the chickens for about 2 days. In the middle of the third day he instantly struck Laurie’s chickens. He killed 3 of her chickens. She ran out of the house trying to stop him, but he’s so tough, even hitting him and yelling at the top of her lungs did even scare him, or make him look up at her. It was crazy. She watched as all of her chickens were cruelly killed. She has lived there only like 5 or 6 years and has already had 8-10 chickens killed by animals. States Laurie: “He was so cute and cuddly looking. I wanted to catch him and keep him as my pet, before he killed all my animals.”

 

            After he finished her chickens off, he came up to 700 south.  He had killed another rooster now, at my house.  The resident that lived at that  house ran and yelled at him. She threw a rock at him and he ran away. Eventually he killed her mom’s rabbit, and her favorite duck, Aflack. He also attempted to kill all of her chickens too, but the family got him out by smacking him on the back with a metal pipe. They reportedly said he was a very big challenge for them and caused great stress, while he was alive. The resident living there was 5 inches away from him that same day with the gun pointed in his face, and he was nice to her. She went to pull the trigger, and it wouldn’t work. She was angry, because she was out in just her socks and it was muddy. The resident's dad said, “That little jerk got what he deserved!”

          
          The dad and daughter went to the hardware store and bought an animal trap. She baited it with peanut butter and hamburger. The clever little guy somehow got the food out without getting trapped. That night, she accidentally to found a dead mouse that had eaten D-con, in their kitchen. She had an idea to put peanut butter on that dead mouse and put it in the trap. Her brother, Wesley, had also been shooting him all night, with a bb gun, because he was after their baby rooster. Wesley hit him 10 times in the head with pellets. The ferret didn’t like it at all. The ferret ended up killing the baby rooster, but between  the dead d-con mouse and the bbs to the head, the ferret was stone dead by morning. Everyone in the neighborhood were all thankful when he was dead. A resident later commented about the incident by saying, “You know what , he didn’t even eat the animals, he left them for dead."

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5/23/2011 6:13:35 AM by Ian Kearns    
This does not sound like the common behaviour of a domesticated ferret however as you have failed to giev that information then I am taking this under presumption. What you are describing would likely be the actions of a MINK and whilst a member of the same family as the ferret, it is in fact a wild animal as opposed to that of domesticated which the ferret is (omiting the Black Footed Ferret which I dont believe live wild in your state although if they do then I think shooting one is likely a criminal offence as they are protected) It is important to positively identify your target before putting together articles such as the above as it clouds the judgement of others and ultimately gets the species a bad name
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