Hello all,
 
I also use a squeaky to round up the fuzzies, the hearing ones anyway.
Two of the crew go frantic at the sound and come running, the female
comes and kisses but the male goes completely psychotic.  Someone had
written before, either here on in Ferrets magazine about how possibly
the squeak sounds like a ferret/kit in trouble and it may be maternal
instincts that cause the ferrets to go wild, although she wrote that
didn't explain the males' reaction.
 
This one male will come out of a dead sleep to the sound and literally
attack the person holding the squeaky.  Not any part of the human squeak
abuser either, only the hand or arm that held the squeaky and he always
knows which it was, clamps on and will draw blood.  He also seems to hold
a grudge.  If you don't let him bite you after the squeak, he will sneak
up and do a 'drive by bite'.  Once he's bitten you, and as long as you
don't squeak again just to get a rise out of him, he becomes his normal
goofy loving self.  He never bites for any other reason.  So....do I
have a transgender ferret, or an unusually sensitive one?  :-)
 
Leslie
[Posted in FML issue 4910]