We used to keep about 3 or 4 at a time to go ferretting, they were strictly outdoors animals though. Neat animals, but stink bad!
BTW ... that's a polecat, well European Polecat, if you want to be exact

The common ferret is yellowish in colour, [European] polecats are dark with rings on their face.
Well...back to the World Cup for me, England won 2-0

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