A ferret enthusiast wants the animal to be a legal pet in California
Although people often confuse them with rodents, ferrets are in fact mustelids, and illegal as pets in California. Pat Wright, 63, has been taking care of some of them for decades, including Astro, Noodle and Merlin.
César Rojas Ángel was a summer 2022 video intern for the Los Angeles Times. He’s pursuing a degree in documentary filmmaking at UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism. Rojas was born and raised in Bogotá, Colombia, and before coming to California, he worked with the French public network France 24 in Spanish. As a Latinx journalist, he’s reported about migration, indigenous communities, environment and the intersection between these issues.
