Greetings y'all.
 
I have two inquiries I'd like to put to you regarding my 5 month
old male sable, Mickey.
 
I'm going back to school in the Fall to Tulane University in New
Orleans (I'm in Cincy, Ohio now).  I've checked the Ferret D-Base
and the only Ferret people I've found are in Franklin, a good 3
hours from N.O.  Not quite the distance I want to drive in a Ferret
related emergency.  So my question is, does anyone have any
recommendations of a vet in the New Orleans area, and what shelters are
around there, since I'm thinking of upgrading to an actual Fesnyng, or
whatever more than one ferret was called again.  The apartment I'm
staying in for the next two years is roomy and air-conditioned, and the
landlord doesn't mind ferrets: "Doesn't bother me... I'm not the one
who has to live with the little buggers."
 
So any info on that front would be greatly appreciated.
 
Also, a training question. Now I know that this question comes up often,
(a FAQ, as it were) and I almost hate to ask it, but I'm fresh out of
ideas.  This question, of course, relates to Unauthorized Pooping.
 
Mickey does quite well in using the litterbox with one situational
exception: doors to places where he wants to be.  At the present, he
is confined to roam a large living room and the adjoining hallway.
However, as he is a Bold Explorer Ferret, that simply is not enough.
And to make his point about this, any place he would like to enter,
he poops in front of.  This would be fine also, as I understood when
I undertook the care of a ferret that there would be "days like this",
however, some of the doors open inwards, smearing the yucky stuff
into the carpet.
 
Needless to say, this is eating away at the adoration my mother feels
towards the innocent-lookin' cutie.  Not to a dangerous amount, but
still... I'd rather find a solution.
 
I've followed him around after nap time, and caught him in the act,
putting him in the box, and so forth, but he still gets away with it
on the occasion.
 
I've tried a chemical called Keep Off for dogs, but I think Mickey
is actually _attracted_ to the stuff.  I've asked around for NoGo,
which I thought somebody had mentioned here, but the pet store owners
just looked at me weird, saying "sometimes people make up products
like that".  Whatever that means.
 
So I'd appreciate any advice y'all can pull from your ferret bag of
tricks, if your fuzzies haven't already gotten into them and hid
them under the couch.
 
 
Who knows what evil lurks
within the Socks of men?
The Ferret Knows...
 
Ryan J
& Mickey T. McWeasel the DogSlayer
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[Posted in FML issue 0914]