FERRETING OUT A MYSTERY
Missing pet turns up 10 miles from home in friend’s garden:
A FERRET missing for two weeks turned up 10 miles away at its owner’s colleague’s house.
Humbug escaped from his home in Aberdaron earlier this month, leaving Natalie Harrison fearing the worst.
But exactly a fortnight to the day, she went to visit a colleague in nearby Porth Neigwl – and found Humbug sitting outside.
Occupational therapist Mrs Harrison said: “My son had injured himself playing football so I’d taken him to see my colleague, a physiotherapist, at his home.
“I got out of my car and there Humbug was, behind the bin. I couldn’t believe it.
“I said ‘Humbug, what are you doing there?’ He made his little chirping noise and came over to me as if to say ‘please save me’.”
Mrs Harrison said Humbug looked thin and malnourished and was covered in ticks. She added: “He’d obviously been in the wild for some time, he wasn’t in a good state. I put him in my car and he just curled up in the back. He looked starving.
“I thought, ‘this can’t be my ferret’. But I have a picture of him and he looks exactly the same.
“Some people have said he may have been stuck in my car, but there was no way he would have been there for two weeks. Ferrets have a really distinctive, strong smell so I would have smelt him.
“Others have said he may have been stuck under the car. My car does so many miles, there is no way he would have been stuck under there.”
She added: “I think I’d have a better chance of winning the lottery than this happening again.”