“DEPRESSED” FERRET STILL ON RUN AFTER FLEEING SIBERIAN CIRCUS: Via TKB, on a slightly different note from the post below….:

Hopes were raised Friday that the ferret had been found when Chita resident Ivan Burtsev found a ferret on a city street near the Zabaikalye hotel the night before and brought it to the local zoo.

“He is absolutely tame. He understands how to open doors, and he comes when you tap your leg,” Burtsev told news site Chita.ru, adding that he had been aware of the runaway ferret from news reports.

But circus art director Zhanna Lazerson rejected the ferret after examining it at the zoo.

“It’s not our ferret,” she said, according to Interfax.

Lazerson said earlier that the circus wasn’t exactly missing its ferret, calling the animal a “terrible glutton, idle to the core.” …

The monkey was found shortly after the escape in a circus doghouse, cuddling with a dog. Both were sound asleep. The parakeet is still on the run.

Twitter blogs have been opened in the names of the two missing animals. In a weekend post, FerretFeelsDown complained, “Look here, even the parakeet is ignoring me 🙁 .”

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