Workmen help rescue floating albino ferret off pier

Workmen helped to rescue a ferret found floating on a pontoon off the end of Anglesey's Beaumaris Pier. They saw something moving under a wooden pallet lying on top of the floating wooden pontoon and called in RSPCA inspectors.



The male albino ferret has been named Kon-Tiki after a famous 1940s raft expedition across the Pacific Ocean. It is not known how it came to be on the pontoon. It is being cared for at a nearby rescue centre.

RSPCA inspector Mike Pugh said: "How the ferret got there is beyond us. Clearly if it is a case of abandonment at this strange location then it could have meant all kinds of danger for the ferret." He said the ferret had received a lucky break thanks to "some caring and quick-thinking construction workers".



The pontoon is accessed by steps at the end of the pier and one theory is the ferret was attracted by the smell of bait from fishermen. The ferret is now being looked after at the RSPCA's Bryn-y-Maen Animal Centre in Upper Colwyn Bay. Manager Becky Lloyd said Kon-Tiki was very tolerant despite all the treatment it had received for sores and ticks.