is that a ferret in your bathtub

They've reintroduced black-footed ferrets to the grasslands surrounding Wind Cave, SD. Ferrets were there before but left due to the inhospitality of the locals. Prejudice, misunderstanding and the weasel like nature of the locals clashed with the peaceful weasel that is the black-footed ferret. Ostracized and oppressed, many moved to Conata, SD, where ferrets have enjoyed a mostly peaceful existence with a minimum of weasel-ist prejudice. The suffered the occasional rogue buffalo, a rancher or two, a sporting sharp-shooter or a poison bearing Job Corp moron, but like Sheriff Seth Bullock did in Deadwood over 100 years ago, they tightened up the town and kept the hoople-headed prairie dogs in line.

The Wind Cave ferrets hail from breeding populations in Wyoming and Montana. Cage raised. Drug dependent. "Crack ferrets" in the lexicon of the breeders; an oily skinned bunch of thugs that failed at placer mining and took the only jobs left. Rabbit-skinners. They hunted muskrat, skunk and jackrabbit for the Park Service, eventually taking over the farming and raising of these "transitional" ferret populations in towns like Lusk, WY and Two Sleeps, MT. They blended in to the local populations just like they later knew their ferrets would, drinking beer and eating sloppy Joe's with American cheese and dill pickles. Some grew beards for the Fourth Of July. Every road forks though, and just before the Fourth Of July 2007, the fork in this road took a turn towards Wind Cave, SD.
TBC ...