***I found this joke about puppies and edited a little for ferrets.
Unfortunately, after a lot of searching we couldn't find the original
author to give credit to.***
 
How to photograph your ferret
 
1.  Remove film from box and load camera
2.  Retrieve film box from behind the couch and throw in trash
3.  Remove ferret from trash and brush coffee grounds from its nose
4.  Choose a suitable background for photo
5.  Mount camera on tripod and focus
6.  Find ferret in hamper and take dirty sock from its mouth
7.  Place ferret in pre-focused spot and return to camera
8.  Forget about spot and crawl after ferret on knees
9.  Focus with one hand and fend off ferret with other hand
10. Bribe ferret with raisin and ferretone.
11. Get tissue and clean ferretone nose print from lens
12. Take flash cube from ferret's mouth and throw in trash
13. Remove ferret from trash and and take away candy wrapper
14. Put magazines back on coffee table
15. Try to get ferret's attention by squeaking toy over your head
16. Replace your glasses find ferret dragging camera under couch
17. Jump up in time to grab ferret by scruff of neck and say, "No, soda!
    My soda!"
18. Call someone to help clean up mess
19. Fix a drink
20. Sit back in your futon with large, strong drink and resolve to teach
    the ferret "sit" and "stay" the first thing in the morning
 
Beth, Minerva & Frumpstiggle the marsh wiggle
in Denver, Colorado
 
Moderator's note: A couple of people have tried to post something like
this and I've always rejected it since we couldn't figure out who the
original author was.  I searched quite a bit for clues and find the
original post is years old and has been posted to very many newsgroups.
Further, there are many variations strewn across the internet.  While
none of this automatically means that it's OK to post here, I think the
circumstances -- in this case -- make it OK to post on the FML.  BIGŁ
[Posted in FML issue 2450]