If you have NEVER heard of the black footed ferret, I am sure you have been to a pet store one time or another in your life and seen the cute little ferrets playing with each other in the shops. These animals are so alike, and so unalike from their cousins in pet stores, yet still so adorable.
Black Footed Ferrets (mustela nigripes) are anywhere from 18 inches to 24 inches long, and adults weight up to one and a half pounds to two and a half pounds, males being slightly larger than females.

Black footed ferrets are well adapted to their prairie environment. The fur coloring helps the ferret camouflage in tall grasses, soils and plants, and therefore hard to detect until they actually move.  They are slender animals with a black face mask, black feet and black tipped tails. The rest of its fur is a yellow-brown-cream coloring. They have larger ears and eyes, most likely have acute hearing and eye sight, but its sense of smell is most important for digging into holes and finding prey. Most of their prey consists of prairie dogs, but otherwise they might go for land squirrels, small rodents and birds.