I understand, Jacque.  I know my meighbors all gather around their windows
when the fuzzies and I go for a "walk".  It's a fight all the way to the
mailbox and then a grand sprint back to the door.  Incidentally, when we
went to the beach, the kids would walk/ run as long as we were pointed into
the wind.  They also figured out how to stay just out of wave reach.  THAT
was pretty entertaining.  We did scallops along the water's edge- racing
down as the waves went out and sprinting out of range when the waves came
crashing back in.  Too funny!  Any explanations on why they will walk
towards, but not away from home?  (Other than the obvious fact that raisins
live IN the house.)
 
So far as naming goes-
My first was named Goose because she honked.  Her little baby dooks sounded
all the world like a little gosling.  Tas was named for her crazy, hyper
little personality.  (In reading the FML, there seems to be a large number
of ferrets names Taz or a variation on that.  Go figure.)  Miesa was named
for the great architect Mies Van der Rohe, because every great architect
needs a ferret named after him.  Interestingly enough, Miesa can defeat any
and all architectural structures.  Must have been prophetic naming.  :)
Joe's full name is Sloppy Joe.  He was a very enthusiastic eater while on
soft food and usually managed to get it up to his ears and all over his
cage.  Still does feel obligated to empty the food bowl and eat it off the
cage floor.  Such a boy.
 
Wessi and the Wonder Weasels
[Posted in FML issue 2944]