It's not just cats who sometimes have a surprising amount of trouble gauging and jumping short distances.

Some of these ferrets are downright embarrassments to their species, if you ask us. We can understand if they were trying to make a huge leap, like from the couch to an upper shelf, but there's a ferret here that literally can't make it from the bed to the bedside table. Come on, ferret. That's less than a foot.

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