We posted some time ago about one of our ferrets not getting along with the
others -- how he bullied, chomped down, dragged, and basically terrorized
the other fuzzies, though he was really sweet with people.
 
Well, we finally decided that it just wasn't working (after a month of
mournfully watching him bamboozle other ferrets, and leave little bitemarks
on our toes when he was really excited.) and scouted around to look for a
better home for him.
 
After interviewing several prospective-ferret-owner-friends, we decided to
let Kirslen, who is one of the ferret folks at our local (and very good
petstore), take him home for a trial period.  Kirslen owns Koogel, an albino
male, who, like Wookie, was neutered at a similarly late age and is equally
as huge, who spends much of the time being spoiled rotten (in a good way),
or being the Ferret Representative for people who don't know about ferrets.
Koogel, interestingly enough, bamboozled ("beat the heck out of", says
Kirslen) smaller ferrets that he met, but was equally sweet with people.
We were worried that it would be a sequel to "Clash of the Titans", since
they're both enormous with enormous canines, and neither have really met
their match before.
 
It turned out to be a love match.  They dooked and played with each other
within minutes of meeting each other, and slept together in Koogel's
bed-couch.  I guess they both went, "Wow!  I have a twin brother!"
 
The trial period isn't up yet, but it looks like Wookie has a new home that
is perfect for him.  We didn't feel it was fair to always keep him separated
from the others and have no one to play with, but it was equally unfair for
the others, who are very scared of him, and so we decided to adopt him out.
 
Sometimes sad events turn out to be really good ones, eh?
 
                    Martin and Anna G. Ralya
[Posted in FML issue 1539]