Re: Calling Ferrets
I have one fool-proof method to get Dervish out of hiding *fast* under
every circumstance that has ever come up.  She hides when the doorbell
rings, popcorn pops, and when she's subjected to a B-A-T-H; sometimes it
was quite hard to get her out of hiding.  She would come when I squeezed
the squeaky viscera toy, but that's been ferretted away somewhere.  So
the next best thing:
 
Empty plastic soda bottles.
 
Dervish goes absolutely *nuts* when she hears me thumping one, and will
come out of even the deepest Sleeping-Not-Dead mode to get the bottle and
hide it away.  There are about thirty bottles hidden all over the house;
this is an estimate, because I'm always finding new bottle deposits.  And
when one hidey-hole is invaded (my father cleaned them all out from behind
the sofa once), she finds a new one.  If she sees you looking under the
bed, she moves all the under-bed bottles to the closet.  And it's great
fun to watch her lope away with a bottle held high. :-)
 
Re: Cheweasels
Dervish will have no truck with her new "Chewy-weasels", but my cat adores
them.
 
Re: Clear Ferret Freeway
I finally bought the Sheppard and Green "All Clear Ferret Freeway", and
am I glad I did!  I've never seen her tail wag before, but it really gets
going when she gets in that tube!  I had an opaque tube for her before,
which she liked, but not as much as this one.  Besides, now I can see her
enjoying herself!
 
Re:  Peanuts
Will the FLO operative who is supplying Dervish with peanuts please stop?
There are no peanuts in this house, so I know she's getting them from an
outside source.  (And yes, I *know* she's been eating peanuts; shall we
say, "the proof is in the poopie"?) That goes for the mystery Fig Newtons
I keep finding half-eaten under the bed, too.
 
-(TX) Meghan and Dervish the WonderFerret ("But you'll never find my stash
of butterscotch baking chips!")
[Posted in FML issue 2732]