Maybe the ferret thought they were Vienna Sausages!? It had to of been starving poor ferret and poor baby. Has there been any pics released?
When I was a wee baby my parents lived by the Chattahoochee River in North Florida. They had a pit bull named Simon (from Simon and Garfunkel, lol) and that dog would follow me all around the yard protecting me, one time my mom my dad was working on his car and I was crawling around in the yard next to him and I wandered off close the the river and Simon grabbed me by the diaper with his teeth and brought me home. I always loved that story.