hi to all humans and critters on the fml.
 
thank you all, every single one of you, for all the *great stuff* that
you post!
 
please indulge me for a moment....tonight i read so many neat things
here that i've gotta respond. ok, here goes....
 
laurel wrote:
(snippage here)
>What a hoot.  a one pound ferret just chased a fifty pound muzzled
>greyhound through the room.  Off to enjoy the zoo.....
 
laurel, it cracks me up no end when my 2.5 pound alvin-meister (ferret)
gets to dooking and wardancing, and within a matter of seconds, clears
the room of four fat, sassy, extremely cool cats. these cats leap onto
tall furniture, kitchen cabinets, drapes, humans, whatever is in reach,
to escape this one skinny little ferret-monster!
 
bob wrote:
(more snippage)
>If you HAVE to do the heimlich, press the ribs, using the base of your
>palms, towards the sternum, low on the ribcage.  This more like the ribs
>natural compression, and they are stronger pushed this way than when being
>compressed from the sternum towards the spine (a sure way to break them!)
 
bob, thank you so much for that info.  next time one of my fuzzies chokes,
i'll know what to do.  it happened to us once...sally was coughing/choking
on something.  she was backed up in a corner, shaking her head, obviously
having trouble breathing.  instinctively, i picked her up, held her
upside-down against my chest, and patted somewhat forcefully on her little
chest.  this caused her to make a few coughing/retching sounds, and then,
thank goodness, she was ok.  she probably wasn't seriously blocked.
anyway, if it ever happens again, i'll know what to do (thanks to you.)
 
sarah wrote:
(snippage again)
>My 4yo light sable, Mr. Fuzz, is extremely cute and petite (2# in
>winter!), but the running joke is that he thinks he looks like Bruce Willis
>in the first Die Hard movie.  I keep taking away his little strap
>undershirt and washing all the cool dirt- and bloodstains out of it, which
>upsets him greatly.
 
sarah, they get really possessive of those smelly undershirts, don't they?
my baby-faced little sable, dweezil, insists that every friday night we rent
a clint eastwood movie.  so far, he's got that tough-guy squint down pat.
(he still needs some work on the "go ahead, make my day" thing...when
dweezil says it, it sounds like "cluck cluck cluck." dweezil clucks like a
chicken.  a REALLY TOUGH chicken.)
 
roland wrote:
>I picked up my new baby Saturday and can't seem to come up with a name.
>It's a she.  Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!
 
hi roland. some of my fav femme ferret names are daisy, chloe, zoey,
claribell, and maggie.
 
pam wrote:
>Hello all!  I have a question, we have an six month old male ferret
>(beautiful silver mitt named Belgarath) who has developed a passion for
>electrical wires.  Does anyone have any suggestions as to how to keep
>him away from them??
 
pam, i don't know if this would work for ferrets, but i've always read
in my cat magazines to wrap the cords in aluminum foil. i bet it would
work...can you imagine biting into a piece of foil! yuck!
 
love you guys,
 
linda, sally, alvin, dweezil, sparky, joshua, misty, raven, flossie
(human, ferrets, felines...i have a hard time remembering who's who
anymore)
[Posted in FML issue 1394]