I have a mentally challenged ferret that we raised from a baby (kit).  His
name is Apollo and he just can't seem to understand the difference between
playing differently with his ferret friends and his people friends.  He's
always nipping our faces to invoke play, the others learned very quickly
it's not acceptable, but he would be confused when we scolded him for it.
It made him too timid to play because he didn't understand why we were upset
with him, so we long ago quit scolding him and just live with it so he can
play with and enjoy being around us.  We are just very careful not to get
him too close to our faces (that's tough at night when they are out and we
are asleep tho' ;) ).  So we decided that he's a bit slow and we love him
anyway.  He's not as active as the other ferrets and seems to be more
sensitive to touch (not wiggly to get away and be curious but uncomfortable
being held (touched) for very long).
 
For those interested Athena, Ulysses and Spartan, our three ferrets from
Fredonia are doing great.  Job and Badger still don't like them but everyone
else loves them, we just make sure Job and Badger are put up when it's time
to let them out to play (and that Job, Badger, Ulysses and Spartan are up
when Athena is out, they make her spray, phew!) ;) .  Athena loves to be
held and cuddled.  She'd rather cuddle in my arms than play, I love it!!!!
:) Spartan and Ulysses are best and fast friends, they like to cuddle to but
they like to play a lot.  Watching them play when they are out is pure
pleasure!  They love being out!!  Spartan loves to chase around and Ulysses
loves my toes, so I wear shoes when he's out!  They both love to give kisses
(Spartan loves giving them the most tho').  Athena's best friend is our
albino male King Tut.  He's gentle and loves to cuddle too.  They look so
cute when they are sleeping, just one big ball of white fur!  Their favorite
place to sleep is in my DH's leather and lambs wool winter hat, hard to tell
where the lambs wool stops and they start.  ;)
 
The rest of my crew is doing well except for Cassie, looks like we will have
to have our vet do an exploratory and look for adrenal disease (she's only 2
1/2 ).  Anyone dealing with this that can e-mail me with any insight on this
disease and how to keep her happy and pain free after her adrenals are
removed I would appreciate any information you care to send.  I want to keep
her around as long as I can.  I guess after surgery her energy will pick
back up?
 
Vicky and her "wad" (my son's term, appropriate if you've seen them sleep
together) of 17
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