Have been on the run some and behind in my FML.
 
I once was present when a man put a dog "to sleep" with a 22, he was an
excellent shot, just inches away at the time, the dog looked up with the
most trust you could want in an animals eyes.  He shot as the dog moved,
missed the critical spot - the dog had been paralaysed from the waist back
and couldn't get away, it screamed and howled while the man got ready to
realign and shoot him again.  I don't ever want to be present at such a
thing again, and I certainly could not take a ferret I have loved and
babied and end its life with a pellet gun, I don't want an animal looking
at me like that - ever even if someone else does the deed
 
For the amount of food.  My little ones 6 at that time, eat 15 lbs of TF
per month.  I don't estimate how much each eat, I just have it poured out
and at the end of 30 days, the bag is empty.  A little is dropped into the
water (I don't know why, as soon as the water dish is cleaned, they dump 2
kernels in there again) and a few are stashed here and there but as a rule
that would be 2.5 lbs a month each or about 2 oz a day, about 1/2 ounce
less than what Dodi mentioned.
 
Well did you pick up I said 6 at that time.  Yep, it happened.  A friend
knew I was wanting a cinnamon really bad (even if I felt my six pack was
the perfect number).  It took me two days to get there to claim my prize, a
little square built cinnamon girl, year old, perfect creamed body and red
legs and tail.  I had already wrestled with the names Dove (which sounds
like a white ferret - never mind, to me it sounds like a white ferret
Farlin Husky's On the Wings of a Snow White Ferret???) or the name Cheer,
which you know Joy is nicknamed the Joy of my life, so why not a Cheer, a
little Cheer-eo in my life, and then the name PRELL, just cause it is
pretty and soft and cushiony (its all in a name).  Granddaughter really
felt she looked like a Prell and the friend agreed so we welcome Prell into
our home.  She has gotten along with everyone even the bossy Joy, but it
seems to put Joy and Cascade into more fights?????????????  And Ajax is
certainly making a nuisance of himself, this little 3.8 lb baby I cuddled in
my arms, put on my shoulder and burbed just like a baby, he is developing
into a full blown hob and believe you me everything you ever heard about a
hob, its true true true.  Pee U would have been a better name for him.
 
So now we are a home of 7 fuzzbutts!!!
 
Millie and her mixed up confused what's going on noble cleaning crew
Easy Off:  the most perfect ferret in the whole wide world
Ammonia:  I am getting dizzy, light headed, I have a headache, will
someone do somthing about this kit's smell
Cascade:  Has anyone checked his birth certificate to see if he is old
enough for all this?
Ajax:  Did I hear the magic word?  "Butt"?   Oh, Dizzy, did you see that
squirrel go by, what a tail, wow wow wowwww
Dizzy:  Ajax, just stop, you are making an old man of me.
Joy:  That may be the way to get rid of him AND the squirrels - let him
out there, he'll drive off all air breathing mammals.
Prell:  Hello everybody, nice to meet you.
[Posted in FML issue 2571]