Small, elongated carnivorous animals with long bodies and short legs, often kept as pets, or the verb meaning to search persistently.
From Old French 'furet,' from Latin 'furo' (a thief), suggesting the animal's sneaky nature; the verb 'ferret out' comes from hunting rabbits with ferrets who pursue prey underground.
Ferrets are one of the few domesticated animals used for hunting alongside humans—people have trained them for rabbit hunting for millennia, making them one of humanity's oldest working partners.
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