If you're ever stuck in your romance novel, you can always plagiarize an article on ferrets.(And have your character in 1850 discuss landbridges, about a century or so before the theory became widely accepted...)

So.I am at Miers or Krogers or Wal-Mart yesterday (sorry, they all blur into one huge consumerist utopia after a while), and I spy a huge bag of -- and I swear I am not making this up -- Disney's "Old Yeller" brand dog f…