BOULDER — Josh Caldwell lets his three ferrets run free in his apartment, and it’s not unusual to go a few days without seeing all three of them at the same time.
But as soon as he realized he was missing Boots — a cinnamon-colored ferret with darker brown fur on his legs and tail — Caldwell and his girlfriend began combing their neighborhood, looking under bushes and calling his name.
While Caldwell was posting fliers in Boulder, a shopkeeper in Westminster found a shaky, cold-looking ferret at West 72nd Avenue and Federal Boulevard. Through a series of odd coincidences, Caldwell realized that, unlikely as it first seemed, the ferret found 17 miles away from his home was, indeed, Boots.
“I was thinking, there’s no way, there’s absolutely no way,” Caldwell said. “I was 99 percent sure he’d been eaten by a coyote, or run over on a road somewhere.”
Laura Snider, Daily Camera
