THE mating season got too much for one Pembroke ferret who found himself bedding-up at a town pub for the night.

Royal Oak landlord Jonathan Nutting could not believe it when he heard one of his regulars, Beth Jones, shouting “There’s a ferret out here” as she left the pub on Sunday, April 6.

“I went outside but I couldn’t see the ferret. Beth said it had tried to climb her leg and then gone down the passage way by the side of the pub,” said Jonathan.

“I thought pull the other one but I went down to have a look, and there he was, having a look around at everything.”

Jonathan grabbed the ferret, who they named Colin, and kept him in a plastic beer crate overnight.

The next day Anthony Deponeo, himself a ferret owner, came to the rescue and said he would look after 'Colin' until the owner could be found.

It was only by chance that the owner’s friend overheard a conversation about the ferret at a table top sale at Pembroke Town Hall.

Owner Deck Davies was overjoyed to be reunited with two-year-old Cwtch.

“I was staying at a friend’s house when my boyfriend called to say Cwtch was not in his cage,” she said.

“We were up into the early hours of the morning but we couldn’t find him anywhere. He must have got out of the cat flap.

“We were so worried, I was asking everyone if they had seen him and he was only down the road.”

Deck’s two other ferrets, both female, were “going nuts” without Cwtch. “It’s mating season at the moment and he must’ve just had enough and popped down the pub,” Deck joked.

And it seems Cwtch has got a taste for pub life. “I’m not letting him out of the cage on his own because the first thing he does is go for the cat flap,” added Deck.