Citing dangers to the environment and small children, the California Department of Fish and Game is a long-standing roadblock on the path to legalization. Fish and Game says the critters are dangerous, and if they are legalized in California, it's only a matter of time before ferrets go feral and become a threat to wild birds and small mammals. Jurek says the survey's wrong. So it's hard for us to understand how they have not existed in the wild. In the wild, he says, these housebroken carpet sharks are nocturnal animals that live alone, making them difficult to track.
Ferrets live individually.
So it would be very difficult to know if there were any ferrets in the wild. Gabe Parr, a Santa Cruz County animal control officer, offers another argument against legalization. We have concerns about diseases they carry and there've been concerns about their temperament. They don't go feral. There's a far greater threat from feral cats.