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>Any good ideas to keep those fuzzies occupied and happy? ( It would be
>wonderful if some of you would post your fuzzies favorite activities to
>share with all of us)
Bob Church and a number of other people have come up with some really cool
games to play with your ferrets. The FML is online now and it's
*searchable*, so you can look through old issues for all sorts of ideas.
The biggest thing that seems to make a difference to my ferrets is rotating
toys, playing games *with* them (dragging towels, plastic bags, even the
dryer hose) and changing something about the toys or environment they have.
Anything new is intensely interesting. Heck, I put a diningroom chair in
the livingroom and you'd think I'd bought a new toy for them! They play on
the chairs in the diningroom all the time, but since it was in an unusal
place, suddenly it was interesting all over again.
I also hide toys for a while and then bring them out again. Cardboard boxes
and tubes of all kinds are fun, but I find they take up a lot of room.
Usually I'll turn a new box into a toy then throw it away when they seem
bored with it. That way I don't have to walk around it forever.
I also find that when the dryer hose gets boring stretched out in a straight
line, that tieing it into knots makes it interesting all over again.
Stuffed into a box makes it new again, too. Mine like it when I grab the
end and roll it back and forth and drag it around. For some reason, jumping
into a moving hose is more interesting than one that sits still! :)
Anyway, I'm sure you'll find lots of great suggestions.
--Barb--
[Posted in FML issue 2328]
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