‘Depressed’ ferret flees Siberian circus
(Link removed due to reported malware found at the destination, a story in the Moscow Times.)
This story can’t possibly be as great as its headline
13 responses to “This story can’t possibly be as great as its headline”
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I,myself, would be pretty depressed if I paid to go to a circus and found they had performing ferrets.
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So would I, but not as much as I would be if I were a ferret performing in a circus in Siberia.
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What’s the beef? They have fur coats, don’t they?
They ought to see what they do to ferrets in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Askaban.
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Oh darn. The link didn’t work.
AMDG -
##%!! Could’ve sworn I checked that. Well, it’s fixed now.
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AVG says this is a reported attack page.
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Thank you. Chrome gave me a warning about it, too. I’ve removed the link. I wasn’t getting that this morning. Russians…
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The Moscow Times is an attack site? Surely some mistake?
The story actually lives up to the headline.
A ferret has escaped a circus in the East Siberian city of Chita along with a monkey and a red-breasted parakeet
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the escape has added to the animals’ depression in the circus because the male parakeet was partnered on stage with a female parakeet who is now missing him.
The ferret is less missed, with Lazerson calling him a “terrible glutton, idle to the core.” -
I couldn’t get it at first then got weird warnings all day. Like Paul, I loved the bit about the gluttonous ferret
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I’d like to see the movie.
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Well, it does come awfully close, though not quite up to what I would like to imagine, which really would require an interview with the ferret. It sounds like the headline is a bit misleading, though (really?!?), as the story seems to be saying it was not especially the ferret who was depressed.
My brother the animal lover was on a ferret kick for a while some years ago. He kept trying to tell us how lovable they were, but it wasn’t convincing, as they seemed to bite him pretty frequently. Sort of like Hagrid & his creatures. -
Both of my older daughters had them. The second-oldest had fairly bad luck. One died after trying to jump from the top of one bookcase to another. I’ve never known an animal to misjudge like that. The other was trying to go out the door while R’s boyfriend was closing it. The boyfriend was crushed too.
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I think I’m sorrier for the boyfriend than for the ferret.
Andy (our little dog) fails on jumps from time to time, but I think it’s most often a result of poor footing (feet slipping on wooden floor) rather than miscalculation.
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