WILD FERRETS

Halfway to Scotia I cross the Hay Plain, described to me as the most boring road in the world. 

If you typed the word 'ferret' into Goggle and this came up as a reference then my advice is hit the 'back to last page arrow', simply because this is not a blog about ferrets. I am off to do 24 days of volunteer conservation work at Scotia Sanctuary. Scotia is south of Broken Hill and north of Mildura, or as I laughingly say: in the desert. To keep in touch with family and friends I decided to keep a blog. The blog needed a name. Something which sounded like it had to do with conservation or research work; something which reflected I would be working with small animals; and maybe slightly exotic or dangerous; and something which showed how serious everyone should take the blog. So SEARCHING FOR THE WILD FERRET was born.

Hit Manildra and turn right were my instructions.

And just in case you are wondering, there are no wild ferrets in Australia. Actually, no wild ferrets really anywhere. Ferrets are a domestic animal. They were domesticated two and a half thousand years ago, and we are not really certain which animal they originated from, possibly a European Forrest ferret. There have been feral populations of ferrets, the latest in New Zealand, but I suspect the hobbits have eaten all of these. Of course if there is a grant going to search for the wild ferret in Australia then I am willing to take on that task, along with the Tasmanian Tiger, Loch Ness Monster and Elvis.