Ringtail

A very rare ringtail discovered in southeast Idaho. Here’s Twin Falls Fish and game official Lynn Snoddy. I wanted to tell you a story about a ring tale that we captured in Twin Falls and successfully released. It's only the fifth ever confirmed observation of a ringtail in Idaho. And it's a pretty fun story. So it all started when Amalgamated Sugar Factory, which is located south of Twin Falls, called to report Ringtail at their facility. Speaker3: The ringtail cat showed up one evening and an employee was in our extract building that next morning we did call the fish and game and got with Lynn to be able to come out here and try to find a trap for it. So we definitely wanted to further our relationship with the fish and game and get that cat. People were tracking his footprints and trying to figure out where he was at, and it was kind of fun. The light on people's face, actually, when we caught it, it was kind of fun just to see such a small creature. Speaker2: He set live traps and after several days of attempting to catch it, we're successful and we brought it back to our regional office, where we decided not to chemically immobilize it because processing would be fast. All we needed to do was take a very small tissue clip of the top of the year for DNA, so we can later look at where it came from. And then we also put a very small metal ear tag on its ear. Speaker1: The ring tail was subsequently released into a perfect habitat for it.