‘We see him slip the ferret into their diaper bag and quickly leave the store’: Couple casually steal a ferret in a bizarre retail pet store heist, putting the animal in a bag for baby things, giving ‘fur baby’ a whole new meaning

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Laurent Shinar • Writer and Editor
Nov 13, 2025 2:00 PM EST

Most of the time when it comes to animal theft, we hear stories about people mistakenly 'stealing' stray dogs and cats that turn out to belong to a family already. So you can imagine our surprise when we came across this story involving the straight up, on purpose theft of a fluffy ferret from a pet store. Know, you have to consider for a moment that a ferret is quite the lively creature, and the idea that when you would come to grab one, that they would remain calm and contained is terribly inaccurate.

But nonetheless, it seems that this couple of thieves would not be put off by the nimble nature of the animal they came to steal and just went for it anyway in a heist that can only be labeled as hilarious. So grab some popcorn and dive into this curious story.

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    I was stocking the cat food aisle on a very busy Sunday at the pet store where I worked in
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    college. My manager walks up to me and asks, "hey, uh, did we sell a ferret today?"
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    I'm not sure how most pet stores do it, but our store required us to talk to the customer, give
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    instructions, fill out a waiver, explain our adoption policy, etc etc -- so every time one of
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    our animals was sold it was kind of an ordeal. I tell her I would have noticed if we
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  • Yeah, it sure does sound that you would know if you had sold an animal with that kind of adoption process to go through. Honestly, it is rather nice to know that such procedures are put in place to make sure that pets get the best homes that they can.

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    had. We walk over and 1 of the 2 ferrets we had in a large, tall glass enclosure was missing. My
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    black and white ferret standing in a forest
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    coworker speculated that it must have escaped, so we started looking. I knew from
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    the beginning it was probably taken because the walls to their habitat was at least 3 feet high.
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    Also, ferrets are super friendly so if it had gotten out, I think it would probably come up to a
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    person rather than hide in the store. My manager looks on the security camera. A
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  • Well, this sure is getting a little more than just strange. Though, could you imagine how incredibly cute it would be to just be casually walking around the store and suddenly have a ferret come up to you. As though to say ‘excuse me, I got lost and could do with some help to get back home’.

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    man and a woman with a baby walk into the store, directly to the ferrets, and casually lift the lid. The
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    man reaches in and picks up the ferret, starts to walk around and casually look at our fish tanks. We see
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    him SLIP THE FERRET INTO THEIR DIAPER BAG and quickly leave the store. My manager
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    panics, calls the police -- when the police arrive, I distinctly remember an officer snickering
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    black and white ferret standing amongst grass
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    and saying, "um ok, did you want to....file a report? I don't really know what you're expecting us
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    to do." Surprise, we still don't know what happened to the little guy, but a young couple came
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    in to buy a ferret cage a week or so later. When I asked where they had gotten their ferret
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    (because we were the only store with ferrets in town) they paused and told me the flea market. I
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    dunno if it was them, but I hope they gave him a good home.
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