Our first two ferrets we ever had where two Path Valley ferrets.  We
purchased Rikki Tikki Tavi and Rocky Raccoon from a local petstore in
1989.  In January of 1990 we started going to our first shows which were
I believe IFA and FURO back then.  We had rescued a ferret, Sherra, after
our second show.  We found out that she was intact and part polecat.  She
was introduced without a problem to our current two.
 
And then we went to our second FURO show.  We didn't play the raffle
tables before and so we had put our tickets in all the cups and waited to
win.  We were hoping for the cage on the raffle table as we were looking
to maybe get another ferret which meant a larger cage.  Well our ticket
number was called and happily we went to collect our raffle prize.  To
our discovery, it was not a cage we put in our tickets for, the cage on
the raffle table was filled with babies after we put out tickets in.  We
were obvious to most anything other than showing our ferrets which meant
you stood in a circle and pelted your ferret.  Pelting meant took your
ferret held them up and the straighter they hung and whitest or the best
color won.  Rocky was great for pelting - of course the breeder ferrets
had hips so they didn't hang as straight as the marshall and path valley
kids.  Well the Gentlmen who had the kits was named Doug McKay, we were
told to pick one.  We didn't know what to think but Doug told us we had
to take one, so we picked out a pewter mitt and called him Douglas L.
McFerret.
 
Dougie got along great with our ferrets.  He fit in with the rest of
them.  We had gotten Doug at about 8 weeks of age and had him altered 5
months later (7 months of age).  After that, we started a rescue in the
later part of 1990.  We have had Alfa ferrets which didn't get along with
others and some that wanted to be alone.  But for the most part, 90% of
the rescues after they went through quarantine and were adjusted to their
new environment got along great with other ferrets, whether they were
breeders or marshal, or path valley or triple F, etc.
[Posted in FML issue 5147]