As tonight’s Britain’s Got Talent auditions move to Manchester, one of the acts is a first for the show, dancing ferrets…. Caz and Judy have come along today with 10 of their ferrets to do the “weasel war dance”, as Caz explains, “It’s quite well known that ferrets can do the weasel war dance, if you wave anything at them they will go berserk”. Judy has 107 ferrets at home, “my family think I am mad, but I don’t care, I just love ferrets”.

They don’t have a great start as back stage Judy drops one of the ferrets on the floor, and things go from bad to worse on stage as the ferrets fail to perform and make a bid for freedom, leaving Ant & Dec to catch and collect the escaping ferrets side of stage, much to the hilarity of the audience. An exhausted Ant is relieved when the Judges finally hit the buzzers. “Unless I am missing something they weren’t dancing, one tried to mate the other and the rest ran off, it just fell apart didn’t it” asks Simon, not a great debut on Britain’s Got Talent.

It’s not just the ferrets that fail to perform, we’ve come across all sorts of furry and feathered friends throughout the auditions and it’s fair to say they are often out of control, with doves making bids to escape, dogs running off stage and even a dancing sheep making a bid for freedom, it’s fair to say they often do the opposite of what their owners would like them to do.