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A few months ago Joe Serrano found a ferret in the apartment of a recently deceased tenant in the building on West 173rd Street where he is a superintendent.
Although it is illegal to keep ferrets as pets in New York City, Serrano named the little bugger Mico and kept it with him in the basement apartment he shares with a man named Francisco Vellmin. "The ferret used to ride through the neighborhood on Mr. Serrano's shoulder, according to people who watched them."
But then on Monday, Mico disappeared. And worse, on Wednesday a distraught Serrano saw an older man he knew walking with a familiar looking ferret. According to his brother Martin he said "Why do you have that? That's mine" and "'demanded that they give the animal back."
The other man refused and, along with two or three other men, proceeded to beat, stomp, and kick Serrano to a bloody pulp.
"They was kicking him in his face," neighbor Freddie Núñez said. "His face was full of blood. When he got up, he was saying, 'My little animal, my little animal.'"
Serrano is currently in the hospital with "critical injuries" and may "suffer brain damage." So far none of the three or four assailants have been arrested. We hope they get 'em.
Ferret photo from telavet's flickr stream.
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That's some messed up shit. What happened to the ferret?
Um...
The picture in your story is a meercat, not a ferret. I could understand mixing up a black footed ferret for a domestic ferret (yes they are two different animals) but a meercat? Don't you remember Timone from the Lion King?
If I'm reading the photo accompanying the blurb on Gothamist correctly, that ferret later transmogrified into a meercat.
This ferret Mico sounds like a minion of the Devil or Xenu. He is 'found' in the apartment of a dead man. He 'diappears' then 'reappears' whenever he wants. He causes humans to act like animals and beat the shit out of each other. If he is found, please put him in a box and send him the The White House. This ferret may be the only way we can get those crooks out of power. Or maybe, that is just what the ferret Mico wants us to do.
God, people are such idiots.
This proves Rudy's "Broken Windows Theory" of crime. An illegal ferret leads to attempted murder.
that is definately not a meerkat........ i have a ferret that looks just like the picture