Crying Ferrets
When I got my second, he cried all the time when we put him in his cage and
he wanted to be out.  The racket was annoying!  What we found that really
seemed to help was to put a blanket over the cage when he was in there and
we were around.  He would cry for a bit and then figuring that we must have
left, would settle down and go to sleep.  We had to do this for quite a
while, but you will be happy to know that he grew out of crying and now
rarely makes any noise.  (IT might have helped that we already had one
ferret that never made a peep, but I am conviced that putting the blanket
over the cage really helped.) Just becareful that air still gets through
for him and everything should be fine.  I hope this helps.
 
NEW TOY
I just wanted to say something about a new toy we have.  It was this thing
that I found called "Racoon in a Bag" Basically it is a bag with a tail
sticking out that moves round.  It look just like a ferret in a paper page
in my opinion (It was good enough to fool my roommate into thinking that
one of the ferrets had gotten in the bag and couldn't get out.  Well my
ferrets didn't like it.  They hit a bit but then got bored.  Well the main
part of the whole thing is this ball the is in the bag.  When I take that
out and just let it rool about, my one ferret follows it everywhere trying
to catch it.  Since the ball is designed to hit an object and change
directions, my poor baby can't get it.  He will trap the thing and it will
just change directions and get away.  It is quite amusing.
 
Have a great day!
 
Katie
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He [Robert E. Lee] spoke staring at the fire. 'Each man has his own
reason to die.  But if they go on, I will go on.....If war goes
on-and it will, it will-what else can we do but go on?...And does it
matter after all who wins?  Was that ever really the question?  Will
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[Posted in FML issue 1401]