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Excerpt from All About Ferrets and Rats: A Complete History of Ferrets, Rats, and Rat Extermination From Personal Experiences and Study; Also a Practical Hand-Book on the Ferret
Square Garden there was about one out of every fifteen persons that knew the name of the animal at all, and the ferrets were alternately designated as skunks, weas els, guinea-pigs, raccoons, monkeys, woodchucks, kit tens, puppies, squirrels, rabbits, chipmunks, rats (an animal for which they are commonly mistaken), hares, martens, otters, small kangaroos, muskrats, beavers, seals, and, ridiculous as it may seem, small bears. The American race of ferrets has been bred to a high de gree of intelligence, as the proper medium of wildness in the hunt and docility to its keeper has been obtained principally through the efforts of the present writer. This, however, has only been brought about after a great deal of close study and experiment in cross breed ing, until now the American animal is greatly prefer able to its more sluggish and vicious English brother.
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