Little Paws Ferret Rescue

07/01/2026

Apologies for the very short notice of our first walk of the year this Sunday 1.30pm at Hetton Lyons Country Park. We hope you can make it!

Happy New Year everyone!

08/12/2025

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07/12/2025

As predicted it was a little wet on the walk at Wharton Park today. The rainy weather was embraced by some who took it in their stride, others were less impressed!

Some photos of Geronimo & Cody and a beautiful chap whose name evades me. I was unsuccessful in getting photos of the others which is nothing new as they are hard to capture without the blur!

07/12/2025

The weather is a little damp today. We will still meet for the walk at Wharton Park but may do more of just a meet up & a drink / snack in the cafe.

Wrap up warm if you are coming along 🙂

05/12/2025

Lainey is a sweet little soul who has finally been lucky enough to find her forever home. We don’t know where her life started but she was found straying like many others and found herself in rescue. She is such a timid little soul, very easily spooked and I sometimes wonder may actually be scared of her own shadow. She is still scared to be picked up unless you are down on her level. Today some magic happened and she settled on my lap for a very long and chilled out cuddle and it was wonderful to see her starting to feel safe.

There are many ferrets out looking for love and care, some like Lainey that need that extra bit of time and love, and some others bursting at the seams with bounce and energy.

Could you offer your home to some of these fabulous creatures? Please drop us a message through our inbox if so.

Here is Lainey looking beautiful (I think so but I am biased).

02/11/2025

Just a few of us on the walk today at Bolam Lake but I must say the weather was beautiful for this time of year. Arnold, Queenie & Philbert loved all of the autumn leaves, digging in the soil and under the logs. ☀️ 🍂

26/10/2025

Just a gentle reminder that we have our next walk on Sunday 2nd November at Bolam Lake 😄.

11/10/2025

Due to a personal event I have rescheduled Novembers walk to the following day. It will now take place on Sunday 2nd, Bolam Lake, 2pm. Hope to see you guys there!

05/10/2025

Thank you to everybody who came along today. We bumped into a wildlife photographer who kindly offered to take some photos for us and they are fab!

05/10/2025

Lovely meet, great and wander on the Little Paws walk today at Rainton Meadows. Drax had a good snooze as did some of the other ferrets. It was nice to see some old faces and meet some new ☺️.

For those who went to the walk today I will post the other photos in the group.

05/10/2025

It’s possible we might still experience the tail end of the wind on the walk today. Could I please ask folks wrap up warm and ensure the ferrets have some snuggly blankets to keep toasty after the walk.

09/09/2025

I would like to apologise that we have only had a couple of walks organised this year. We had felt it important to pause these earlier this year when there was a COVID scare in the ferret community (posts further down the page with info if you are interested to know more). There have been no further reports of this recently that have been brought to our awareness. The rescue has also been super busy over the summer with different events!

Our next walk will take place on Sunday 5th October 2025, 1.30pm - 3pm at Rainton Meadows, meeting point outside by the cafe which can be seen by the car park. Hope to see you guys there!