Hi all.
 
I just wanted to share a new toy that our newest ferret discovered.
Boing, the new baby, managed to temporarily escape the ferret compound.
The compound is our living room with the door ways blocked off with
(human) baby door blockers.  Anyways, when we got home we found out that
someone had been messing around in the kitchen.  Besides chasing the
onions around the floor, and the broom being dragged under the fridge,
she had found a golf ball.  The previous tenant must have lost it under
the fridge.  So, after making sure all beasties were accounted for, we
cleaned up the mess, washed up the golf ball, and dropped the ball into
the living room.  That was when we discovered this strange behavior.
All the ferrets, without exception, love to place with it.  They never
seemed much interested in any other balls, but they love to chase this
one around with their noses pushing it across the wood floor.  Or they
place it behind their front legs and scoot backwards with it.  Boing had
previously done this scooting action with other small objects like keys,
but now all of them do it with the golf ball.  Sometimes they all want to
do it at once and a sort of 'ferret soccer game' ensues.  Does anyone
know of any instinctual reason they might do this?  We think it might
have something to do with moving eggs around.  Regardless, we think it
cute but annoying when they do it in the middle of the night.
 
Maybe someone else has had similar experiences, or would like to try
this out at home.
 
Darel & Susan
ferret in order of appearance: Roo, Sparky, and Boing.
 
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Darel Benysh                            Industrial Engineering
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[Posted in FML issue 0599]