"Whoops," the aptly named chubby stray ferret, was trying to walk into a driving test center in West Yorkshire, England, when he got stuck in a thin wire fence. He started to panic and ended up going through the fence the wrong way and getting doubly trapped. His little ferret body was bent in half.
Luckily, a caring passer-by noticed, reported The Daily Mail. When she saw his struggle, she called the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (RSPCA), who then brought in the fire brigade, reported The Dodo.
The team sedated the ferret and then clipped the section of wires that was trapping him. Then the team transferred him, still trapped in the chunk of wire fence, to the Abbey House Veterinary Hospital where Laura Smith, an emergency vet, freed him from his accidentally self-inflicted trap.
"All in all [the procedure] took around 15 minutes, and after we monitored him overnight he was doing so well we released him back to the RSPCA to take him to a rehoming centre," said Smith, reported The Daily Mail.
The hospital also gave him his new name: Whoops.
He was assumed to be a stray pet, but without tags or a microchip, his owners were unable to be located. He is now in the custody of the South Cheshire Ferret Rescue looking for a new home.
Whoops ferret looking a little helpless #stuck #ferret #sos now settled at our rescue unfazed by his adventure pic.twitter.com/HDIka5VGKF
— Ferret Rescue (@FerretRescueUK) November 19, 2015
