Dear FMLers.
 
Ok here is my three cents worth on Angora ferrets!!!  Theys the best.
I had one Angora Albino named Saber.  Saber was from Sweden.  He did bite
a bit when we first got him but after I "talked to him" about it he
stopped.  Well, ok ok so he did bite my wife several times (He WAS HER
ferret!!!) but after he and I had a close encounter of the biting kind he
stopped biting me.  ie, I bit him back!!!
 
He was our Intelifret.  He was a very big, very lovable, and very, very
smart furrbrat!!!  He used to figure out how things worked and then he'd
teach the other frets how to make it work!!  Honor bright, he did!!!  He
was the one that found out how to climb up on the covered litter box and
open a drawer under the vanity top and then go thru the drawer and up
onto the top of the vanity.  There he proceeded to dump all of mama's
cosmetics onto the floor.  Mama and I heard the thump of something
hitting the wall in our bedroom one day.  I went to investigate, and as
I entered the room I saw one of the lil girls running away with a blush
brush in her mouth.  I turned the corner and there on the vanity was
Saber looking down on the havoc he had wrought.  He looked up and seen me
and quick as can be he was down, thru the drawer and back on the floor.
He looked at me with them big red eyes as if to say, "YOU didn't see
that did you popa"?  I answered, "Yes I did Saber".  He was one of the
unforgetable ferrets to say the least.  He used to teach the other frets
how to open the cage latches.  Oh yes He did!!  He also loved the
computer.  He'd set up in the chair and watch the words on the screen.
In fact I have told the tale about how I named the hard drive of our
first computer "Ferret Face" as a result of Saber having his face in the
way while I tried to program the new hard drive in our very first
computer.  (BTW, I am writing this on Ferret face 4).
 
Saber wasn't a sickly or ill ferret.  He died at the age of 7 years and
about nine months old.  He died of a heart attack probably due to
Cardio-Myopathy.  (enlargement of the heart).  Our vet said alot of the
big boys have big hearts.  He was perhaps one of the all time ferrets of
my life.  I miss our big white whiley boy.  I would love to have another
Angora, but it would have to be an albino.  Hey ya gotta love 'em, Theys
frets!!!
 
Fred Hurd
 
After All It Is for The Ferrets!!!
[Posted in FML issue 4330]