Free the Ferrets

Garrett (aka Ferret at his job at GameStop) always wanted a ferret, not unlike my unfulfilled desire for a pygmy hippopotamus. Alas, they are illegal in California. You have to smuggle them in over the state line from Nevada if you want one, and that requires getting through the agricultural inspection stations. Not quite like smuggling migrant farm workers in, but not something we were ever willing to do in support of his ferret dream. Seems like there are a half a million illegal ferrets in California now, and a potential ferret emancipation ballot initiative. Maybe this is something we could fold into the illegal alien legislation that is moving so efficiently through Congress.