So, FMLers, picture this. It is a dark and stor -- no no no -- a dark
and mild damp night, and I am standing in front of the kitchen sink,
trying to decide if I have the energy to wash the dishes.... When !
what do my wondering and unfocused eyes behold, but a fat grey ferret
trotting right across the window! Focus! Followed by another one! Big
grin!!

Yes, my dear furry little men and women were out on a night adventure
(using the wire-mesh tunnel that goes past and almost up against my
kitchen windowpanes). So I went into the next room where their cage is
and, uh HUH, only a few ferts within. So out I go to one of the outdoor
pens -- the wood and mesh one that's outside my back door. Three big
soft guys out there -- Robert, Rico, and Phillippe -- and one muscular
tiny black girl -- little Lucy. Then scrabble scrabble and out pops
Eric from the drain pipe that leads into the pens from the mesh
tunnels.

Aftr playing awhile with them, grinning and cooing, I decided to see
who might be in the big metal and mesh pen -- the totally expensive one
that caused so much anguish and drama over the past 18 months.

The ferrets weren't ready for me to stop playing with them, but my
curiosity was strong, and off I went. There's no light to turn on
for the metal pen at night, so I went back in the house to get a
flashlight, went out the side door, and to the big pen.

Well, you guessed it, not a soul within. My spirits fell (even though
of course I know they spend time there). But - - - pretty soon there's
the scrabble scrabble scrabble of ferrety feet coming down the pipe.
Who is it? Three of the same guys -- Robert, Rico, and Phillippe. Then
Lucy. Why, they must love me! They must want to be with me! Aren't they
smart! HOw did they know how to find me?? Ohhhhh! BIG happy GRINS!
Aren't you lovely, aren't you soft, aren't you dear, you wonderful
ferrets! Then the pit-pat-pit-pat of ferret feet in a carpet-floored
mesh tunnel, and YES it's Eric

Then more scrabbles, but up above. Who is looking down at us, through
the mesh roof? Raoul, the handsome young orange cat.

[Posted in FML 5434]