Ferrets Have Their Moment At Ohio's Buckeye Bash
If you're a ferret person, you probably already knew there are ferret shows that are just like dog and cat competitions. But forgive the ferret-free among us who had no idea such things existed.
Maybe there's a competition for albino ferrets at the Ferret Buckeye Bash? CARL DE SOUZA/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
That is until we heard the All Things Considered segment on the Ferret Buckeye Bash which starts Saturday in Columbus, Ohio, reputedly the largest ferret show in the U.S.
Scarlett Gray-Saling who coordinates the bash explained to NPR's Robert Siegel that judges at this large ferret show look for the same kinds of qualities judges at dog and cat shows do: Conformation, maintenance and disposition.
"You bite the judge you get disqualified," she said.
One competition is for best-dressed ferret. I kid you not.
"We dress them in costumes, much to their horror," Gray-Saling said.
Robert asked her to describe some of the most creative costumes she had seen.
I saw one a couple of years ago where they were a hula dancer. They had the little grass skirt, a little lei on and a coconut bra that consisted of six little coconuts.
She didn't say where hula-dancer ferret won.
As the comedian Yakov Smirnov would famously say: What a country.