Without a Doubt, This, the greatest Gift, a Delightful Toy for Your
Frettchen, Good old Mother Earth
 
Just checked with the local Farm/Feed supply store and was quoted a price of
$112.00 for a Rubbermaid stock trough measuring 4 feet long, 2 feet wide and
2 feet deep.  The galvanized metal one costs $100.00.
 
Go buy one.  Take it home to your apartment/house and put it in the
Frettchen room.  Fill it half -full of Good old Mother Earth and put a
climbing ramp up to it and let your Frettchens at it.  They'll think they're
in Heaven digging away to Glory!
 
Here at FERRETS NW we stake them outside in tight little figure-8 leather
harness and on a 3-foot line tethered to a steel rod sticking up out of the
ground about a foot.  Man-o-man, do they love to dig, dig and dig.  It's
about the best thing you can do for this creature: in addition to getting a
dirt bath - no smell to the ferret at all after his dirt digging - you don't
ever have to do claw trimming, since they wear them down while digging out
their tunnels and holes.
 
Being a part of Mother Earth is so natural for the ferret that I consider it
criminal for the ferret owner to keep a ferret indoors all his life.  Let
them dig in the soil ... they so dearly love it, whether it's outside like
we do here in Frettchenvergnuegen Land, or it's inside in a cattle watering
trough half-filled with soil.
 
By the way, ferrets and crows seem to get along just fine.  And, in
addition, there's no better sentry lookout than the keen-eyed, warry and
super smart crow.  I know, since I've raised several of them to adulthood
and have released them around my house.  Right now I am raising a brother
to the crow - the magpie - and this is one sharp-eyed, super smart creature
too.  On top of that it talks to me and loves to play tug-of-war game from
inside its cage in the ferretarium.
 
We don't make much money here, but boy! do we have a lot of fun.  Life is
beautiful.
 
Edward Lipinski, Der Frettchenlustbarkeitsfuerher (Ferret Frolics Leader)
who shouts:
"Frettchen Vergnuegen!"  (Joy of Ferrets!) from [F]erret [E]ndowment for
[R]esearch,
[R]ehabilitation, [E]ducation, & [T]raining [S]ociety NorthWest, aka  F
E   R   R   E   T   S NW.             Non quis, sed quid.  [L.] Not who,
but what.
[Posted in FML issue 2255]