As the festive season approaches, the demand for pets as holiday gifts tends to spike. People can be drawn to exotic or ...

Oh mama! Critically endangered black-footed ferret babies have been spotted in Pueblo County and two babies were born to a ...

As settlers moved westward, prairie dogs were targeted for eradication, eliminating the primary food supply for ferrets. Farming and the arrival of diseases contributed to the decline. Wild ...

Biologists captured seven successful breeding ferrets shortly before the plague wiped out the remaining wild colony. All wild black-footed ferrets are descended from those captured in Wyoming in the ...

Local researchers have uncovered a total of 122 pet shops and seven websites selling 24 non-native small mammals in South Africa.

In Pueblo County, there's evidence of at least two wild-born kits at the Pueblo Chemical Depot property and that is a first. Nationally, the first-ever black-footed ferrets born to a cloned ...