Well, I take back what I said yesterday about not being so freaked out
about the dominance circus going on here...  This morning Cully went after
Amelia really aggressively-- no wounds, but pretty traumatic for all
concerned.  I'm just really scared that Cully will hurt Amelia badly.
Should I maybe back off on the amount of time they can spend together?
During the day they are in separate rooms but in the morning and evening
they are free to seek one another out (after a fight with the hubbie last
night, Cully stays in his cage at night-- as said spouse was saying, oh,
they'll be fine, mad screams erupted from the living room-- I won).  Oh the
joy and agony of living with ferrets.
 
    I heard on the news yesterday that out of all the mink who were set
loose in BC, about half drowned trying to cross a stream.  I know mink are
supposed to be good swimmers, but these animals probably never had the
chance to learn, and I think it may have been a stampede kind of incident.
The minks they showed on the news were huge and fat, not like any ferret
I've ever seen (not that I've seen _that_ many).  With the rest of us, I
have to wonder what on earth good the people who opened the cages thought
they were doing.  The cages were small, but not horribly so, and they were
outdoors, not in an enclosed shed or anything and the minks they showed did
look healthy.  I'm not defending ranching, mind you, but releasing these
particular mink was much crueler than leaving them be.  My two cents!
 
Regina, who is too exasperated with the ferrets to pas on any messages
from them
[Posted in FML issue 1382]