Condolences to those with lost, sick, or angeled raisin rustlers...
 
I need to know if anyone might be able to give me an educated opinion on
something.
 
My newest furbutt, Chewy, gets to come out of his cage every evening before
the rest of the bunch does.  He gets at least one to two hours to roam
around, terrorizing the cat, dancing like there's no tomorrow and begging
for snacks.  When I get down on the floor and play with him, it's like
giving chocolate to a candy-starved kid.
 
The problem comes when I try to put him back in his cage so I can let the
rest of the maniacal mustalids out to play.  I calmly pick him up to put
him in his (rather large, for only one ferret) cage, but he puts his back
feet out and grabs the bars on each side of the door and pushes to beat the
band!  I get his back feet off the bars and the climbs back on my shoulder
and hides behind my head.  I pick him up off my shoulders and he turns
sideways so he won't fit.  I fold him in half and try to tuck him in and
he bites the side bar and hangs on.
 
You don't think he's allergic to that cage, do you?  I mean, it *couldn't*
be that he isn't done having fun yet and doesn't want to go back in the
cage, could it? :)
 
I'm thinking of giving Chewy another chance to play with the larger group
to see what happens.  Last time, he and Hershey, then he and Fuzzer, got
into some of the more "display-intensive" WWF stuff.  To prevent major
(pretend) injuries, I put him in his cage early.  I'm wondering if it might
be OK to try it again.
 
On a side note, Taz has taken to stretching his full height when he's up in
his room and laying against the plastic barrier that keeps the others from
scaring him so much.  Then he just sort of lays there, as though wishing
he could just knock down that barrier and run around and play.  But if I
let him out with the others, he screeches and runs in terror! :(  Only
one of my ferts, Rusti (the one that had adrenal surgery last summer) has
successfully slept next to him (my daughter broke the barrier and I had to
wait until the next day to get another one--in the meantime, Rusti snuck
upstairs and crawled into his fleece bed with him and went to sleep).  When
Taz is out, I sometimes pick him up and take him to all of the cages to
"sniff noses" and he doesn't seem to have any problem with this.  Its as
though he knows they can't get at him through the bars!
 
Todd and the (We don't need no steeking cages!) Fuzzbutt Rodeo Clowns!
 
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[Posted in FML issue 3161]