The Tale of a lost Baby "Ferret"

 

 Middle Son has worked at a townhouse/apartment complex for over 18 years. He started out as a young guy doing maintenance and after a few years when the old boss retired he recommended  MS for the job. All this to say that on Friday he came home and told us that through the years he had encountered many different problems ( think finding a deceased tenant or battling a ferocious mother squirrel who had made her nest in a tenant's BBQ and given birth to her babies. She wasn't about to be evicted if she could help it).
 Friday afternoon he was informed that in the third floor hallway a baby ferret was on the loose.  Knowing that no pets are allowed he wondered what this was about. He got his brother (Youngest Son lives in one of the townhouses there) and with a cardboard box they tried to trap the baby animal that was so tiny it could slip under doors into different apartments. The merry chase went on until the little thing ended up running over one of those very sticky pads meant to trap mice etc...  Needless to say his tiny feet were properly stuck and had to be ever so carefully unstuck . So he was put into the box and YS took him to the SPCA  expecting to leave it there BUT the people there said that it was not a ferret, it was a baby mink!!  They also said he should take it back to the area it was found in ( obviously not indoors) and release it so it could hopefully find its mom.

In the pictures below you can see how tiny it was when you look at its size compared to the cat food bits.  MS estimated its body was no longer than 6 inches.

Hopefully the baby mink found his home again and didn't go on any more adventures.  Makes me think of Peter Rabbit and his venture into Mr McGregor's Garden.

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