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NFWS Mission Statement

1. To promote the well-being of ferrets through articles written and published by the NFWS, veterinarians and ferret specialists world wide
2. Offer/provide advice on a variety of ferret subjects from common illnesses, nutrition, sanitation, interaction, ferret safety and the advisability of breeding.
3. Promote the on-going liaison with veterinarians and all medical organisations and agents associated within the 'ferret world' with the aim of raising the general awareness of ferret health and ferret needs.
4. Advise and educate ferret owners, clubs etc., on their basic responsibilities towards ferrets on such diverse subjects as when considering breeding ferrets and when working ferrets in vermin control. The list is large!
5. To promote confidence in ferret owners to approach the NFWS and/or veterinarians to seek advice when their ferret's health and behaviour causes concern.

Articles from NFWS Newsletters

Latest additions

Health Issues

• Coronavirus Enteritis - Simon Thomas BSc BVetMed CVR CSAO MRCVS (#87 May 2010)
• The Ferret Medicine Chest - June McNicholas (#85 Sept 2009)
• Endocrine Disease Part 3 - Anna Meredith MA VetMB CertLAS DZooMed MRCVS (#85 Sept 2009)
• Endocrine Disease Part 2 - Anna Meredith MA VetMB CertLAS DZooMed MRCVS (#84 May 2009)
• Endocrine Disease Part 1 - Anna Meredith MA VetMB CertLAS DZooMed MRCVS (#83 Jan 2009)
• Fostering Kits Part 1 & 2 - Sue Lloyd (#83 Jan 2009)
• Living with Aleutian Disease - John Whittles (#78 May 2007)
• Aleutian Disease - John Chitty, BvetMed CertZooMed Cbiol MlBiol MRCVS (#61 Aug 2002)
• Aleutian Disease - Dr Adrian Deeney (#60 Aug 2002)
• What you should know about ferret insulinoma - Celia Heritage (#52 Winter 2000)
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Articles by Dr June McNicholas

• Mustelid Musings 2: Squirt - (#98 Jan/Feb 2014)
• A Ghost of Christmas Past - (#97 Autumn 2013)
• Vicious Vegetable - (#96 Spring/Summer 2013)
• Smelling Salts? - (#89 Jan 2011)
• So you think you want a ferret - (#87 May 2010)
• The Ferret Medicine Chest - (#85 Sept 2009)
• Blood Transfusion in Ferrets - (#82 Sept 2008)
• Weasels in a Winter Wonderland! - (#81 May 2008)
• Something 'Entirely' Different - (#81 May 2008)
• Fostering and hand-rearing kits - (#81 May 2008)
• MOT Your Ferret! - (#79 Sept 2007)
• Ferrets in Research (1) - (#78 May 2007)
• Toronto Conference 2006 - (#75 Spring/Summer 2006)
• When A Rescue Arrives.... - (#75 Spring/Summer 2006)
• Updated Wispa - (#70 April 2005)
• Stoatally different? No, Weaselly distinguishable! - (#66 Dec 2003)
• Tips - (#65 Oct 2003)
• In Praise of Albinos - (#65 Oct 2003)
• More on naming ferrets - (#65 Oct 2003)
• What's in a name? - (#57 Aug 2001>
  
• Meldrew Moments over Mustelid Misinformation - (#54 Autumn 2000)
• The Pine Martens of Wester Ross - (#51 Autumn 1999)
• Our Miracle Morgana - (#50 Summer 1999)
• Recipes for Disaster! - (#46 July 1998)
• Pyometra - (#43 Oct 1997)
• 'Code of Conduct' - (#43 Oct 1997)
• Some thoughts on 'Designer Ferrets' - (#42 July 1997)
• A Cautionary Warning Regarding Dietary Supplements - (#40 Jan 1997)
• P.A.T. Ferrets - (#40 Jan 1997)
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Around the Rescues & Welfares

• Kingsteignton Ferret Welfare
• Yarm Ferret Rescue
• Isle of Wight Ferret Rescue
• Bolton Ferret Welfare
• Bedford Ferret Welfare
• Sleaford Ferret Rescue
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Working Tales

• Rabbiting Tales - Digger (#97 Autumn 2013)
• Very Bad Season - Max Abell (#96 Spring/Summer 2013)
• Hunting Tales - Digger (#96 Spring/Summer 2013)
• Service Your Gear Time - Max Abell (#94 Sept-Dec 2013)
• End of Season 2 - Max Abell (#93 May 2012)
• Where Have All The Rabbits Gone? - Max Abell (#92 Jan 2012)
• An Out of Season 'One Off' - Max Abell (#91 Sept 2011)
• Nervous Handler - Max Abell (#90 May 2011)
• It's Here Again - Max Abell (#89 Jan 2011)
• End of Season - Max Abell (#88 Sept 2010)
• Beaten to it - Max Abell (#87 May 2010)
• Warmer Ferreting - Max Abell (#86 Jan 2010)
• Working or Pet? - Max Abell (#85 Sept 2009)
• Ferreting in Coverdale - Sheila Crompton (#69 February 2005)
• Summer Ferreting - Sheila Crompton (#68 Aug 2004)
• First Ferreting Trip of 2004 - Sheila Crompton (#67 Mar 2004)
• Ferreting in Airedale - Sheila Crompton (#65 October 2003)
• Persistance Pays Off - Patrick Smith (#53 Summer 2000)
• A Happy New Year - Sadie James (#52 Winter 2000)
• A September Day On The Hills - Steven Carr (#51 Autumn 1999)
• Scrap's First Rabbit - Sheila Crompton (#47 October 1998)
• A Day Out On the Railway - Steve Burley (#46 July 1998)
• Ferreting in Eire - Carl Cameron (#38 July 1996)
• A Veggie and Pet Ferrets Go Rabbiting - Sheila Crompton (#37 May 1996)
• Ferreting in County Tyrone - Marty Patton (#36 Feb 1996)
• A Veggie Goes Ferreting - Sheila Crompton (#36 Feb 1996)
• Field Sports - JoAnne Woodward (#32 Feb 1995)
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Pet Ferrets

• How Ferrets Change Your Life - Sue Nickells (#97 Autumn 2013)
• Of Ferrets, Grandfather Clocks and Star Trek - Bill Beck (#97 Autumn 2013)
• Extreme Ferret Walking - Bill Beck (#94 Sept-Dec 2013)
• Apollo the Geocaching Ferret - Apollo Ferret (#94 Sept-Dec 2012)
• Apollo the Geocaching Ferret - Apollo Ferret (#91 Sept 2011)
• Fun and Games at the Cricket Club - Bill Beck (#91 September 2011)
• Dave's Story - Janet Williams (#90 May 2011)
• Bertie the Meat Seeking Missile - Bill Beck (#90 May 2011)
• New Friends - Kingswinford Codger (#89 Jan 2011)
• Bertie - Bill Beck (#89 Jan 2011)
• Mad or What? - Kingswinford Codger (#87 May 2010)
• If you go down in the woods today...... - Sandie McHugh (#87 May 2010)
• A Right Royal Shambles - Sundi (#85 Sept 2009)
• How Safe are your Ferrets? - Ralph Bantoft (#84 May 2009)
• The Litterbox Jitterbug - Bill & Ann Beck (#84 May 2009)
• In the Beginning - Keith & Val Hepwood (#83 Jan 2009)
• The European Polecat (Mustela putorius) - Paul Pountain (#83 Jan 2009)
• Polecat, wots that then?!! - Paul Pountain (#82 Sept 2008)
• HAMISH MacBEAR or Turned Out of Bed by a Ferret! - Bill Beck (#81 May 2008)
• The Ferret Mobile - Sheila Crompton (#80 Jan 2008)
• Don't let your ferrets see this! - John Whittles (#80 Jan 2008)
• An expensive time in the lives of my ferrets!! - Suzanne Bridges (#80 Jan 2008)
• Don't Put Your Ferrets On the Stage Mrs Worthington - Bill Beck(#80 Jan 2008)
• Ferrets at the Lamont Household - (#79 Sept 2007)
• Ferret Friendly Vets - A Cautionary Tale - John Whittles (#79 Sept 2007)
• POLICE, CAMERA... FERRET? - Bill Beck <#79 Sept 2007)
• Hello, who are you? - John Whittles (#78 May 2007)
• Jean-Pierre Puts The Boot In - Bill Beck (#76 Dec 2006)
• The tale of the wild weasel and the not-so-Magnificent Seven - Norma Williams (#71 July 2005)
• Updated Wispa - Dr Jeff Lewis & Dr June McNicholas (#70 April 2005)
• Dyson's Diary 2 - Dyson Phipps (#70 April 2005)
• The Day the Man from the RSPCA Came - Julie Stoodley (#69 Feb 2005>
• Dyson's Diary 1 - Dyson Phipps (#69 Feb 2005)
• The Adventures, and Misadventures of an Urban Ferret Keeper - Peter Hillman (#66 Dec 2003)
• A Day in the Life of a House Ferret - Huggy Bear (#65 Oct 2003)
• Town & Country Festival - 2003 - Eric Shadforth (#65 Oct 2003)
• Ten ways of telling whether you've become a ferret freak - anon (#65 Oct 2003)
• The Ballad of the Wakeham Woozles - Kirsty Glover (#58 Nov 2001>
• Notes from the T&C - June McNicholas (#58 Nov 2001)
• The Curse of the Blob - Bill Beck (#57 August 2001)
• Ferret PR Shows - Sheila Crompton (#56 May 2001)
• The Dick Nutt Memorial Trophy - Jeff Lewis (#55 Jan 2001)
• Ferret Walking - Bill Beck (#54 Autumn 2000)
• Blue Ferret Syndrome - Bill Beck (#52 Winter 2000)
• Annabel's Babies - Frieda Byng (#50 Summer 1999)
• The Story of Yogi and Boo-Boo - Bill Beck (#49/50 April/Summer 1999)
• Baptism - Malcolm Winch (#49 April 1999)
• Oh My God, What have we Done??? - Eric S Shadforth (#49 April 1999)
• Polecats Are Coming Back! - Dr Johnny Birks (#49 April 1999)
• Getting Hooked - Margaret Booth (#42 July 1997)
• The Taming of Bear - Frieda & Ben Byng (#40 January 1997)
• The Ethics of (Over)Breeding - Colin Jennings & Patrick Smith (#39 Oct 1996)
• Domestic Ferret v European Polecat - Bob Church (#37 May 1996)
• Buster's Bite - Derek (#34 Aug 1995)
• Show Tips - JoAnne Woodward (#33 May 1995)
• Henrietta's Capers Part 1 & 2 - Ruddock (#28 & 29 Winter 1993 & Spring 1994)
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Articles by Dick Nutt

• A Tribute to the late Dick Nutt - (Extra 20th Dec 1998)
• The Trouble with Technology - (#47 October 1998)
• The View from Here - (#47 October 1998)
• Once upon a Time in America - (#44/#45 Jan & April 1998)
• Comment - (#43 October 1997)
• The Ferret & Ferreting Society - (#43 October 1997)
• "B.J." and the Lump - (#40 January 1997)
• A day out with Teddy - (#38 July 1996)
• Dick's Mustelid Mixture - (#37 May 1996)
• An Apprenticeship in Field Sports - Part 1 - (#35 November 1995)
• An Apprenticeship in Field Sports - Part 2 - (#36 February 1996)
• An Apprenticeship in Field Sports - Part 3 - (#37 May 1996)
• An Apprenticeship in Field Sports - Part 4 - (#38 July 1996)
• An Apprenticeship in Field Sports - Part 5 - (#39 October 1996)
• Showtime - (#25 Spring 1993)
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Stories by Norma Williams

• A 'hunting We will go (Part 1)
• A 'hunting We will go (Part 2)
• All the Fun of the Fair (Part 1)
• All the Fun of the Fair (Part 2)


• We're All Going on a Summer Holiday (Part 1)
• We're All Going on a Summer Holiday (Part 2)
• There's No Business Like Show Business (Part 1)
• There's No Business Like Show Business (Part 2)
• Here We Come A Weaselling
• True Brit
• There's A Long Long Trail A Winding
• Practically Magic
• Cinderella's Revenge
• The Tale of Wilbur the Arboreal Whelk
• The Hunt for Ely Klonkers
• I Should Be So Lucky
• Bad Medicine
• The Sound of Music
• The Battle of Barney's Bawls
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