We have two female silver-mitts -- one year and six months.  At this
point they are both unspayed and scented (not descented :).  We are
not interested in breeding, so sooner or later we need to get these
females spayed.  Here come the questions:
 
1)  When should I get the females spayed?
2)  How will I know when they are going into heat?
 
These two are a riot.  Whenever I need a good laugh, all I have to
do is get the sharks out.  Their best routine has to be the "Attack
of the Killer Tubeworm."  I have these long tube socks that I used
to play soccer in.  They love dragging them around and wrestling
with them.  One day my wife got the great idea of putting one of
the ferrets into the sock.  So she opened it up, stuffed a very
willing ferret into the sock, and layed it on the floor.  It was
too funny.  The ferret was thrashing around like a wounded snake.
It looked like a big tubeworm to me.  Then the other ferret saw
her, ran over, and pounced on the tubeworm.  She grabbed it, bit
it, chewed it, and drug it around.  It was so funny and so unfair.
 
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[Posted in FML issue 0620]