> RE: Strangest ferret names
>    Gale Putt, as I mentioned, I have two ferrets, brother and sister, named
> Boris and Natasha. Most people don't get the significance of these names, but
> there are reasons for them. Strange names are the greatest, the stranger the
> better! They can be an expression of individuallity or a tribute to some one.
> I mean, after all, there probably aren't many ferrets named SID or NANCY.
> Thats the point! You also mentioned that these ferrets needed something
> permanent. So, change their names if you must, but I think you'd be taking
> away some of their charm.
>
 
   Our two most unusually named kids are Newone and Ripple.  Newone is
a black-and-white sable who got her name quite by accident.  After we
first got her we couldn't think of a name, and we often referred to her
as "the new one".  One day she answered to it, so....
 
    Ripple is the very old male that I found.  He got his name from
his butter-colored undercoat.  I thought it looked like butterscotch,
and his long black guard hairs lent a ripple pattern to his undercoat,
so...Ripple it was!
 
Steven Woodcock
Colleen Coppock
Continually Matching Wits with Missy, Newone, Zebulon Pike, Minx,
                               Slinky, Puck, and Ripple
Guest Ferrets in Residence:  Taz and Scamp
[Posted in FML issue 1254]