Hello everyone, This is only my second time posting to this list, but I
have been reading it and learning from it for a while now.  We have two
ferrets, one of whom loves to go outside and play.  I have always been
careful to take him out when it was a comfortable tempature (not cold or
hot) and dry.  But now I see that one of you is taking your ferret out to
play in the snow and another mentioned that your ferret(s) love the wet
grass.  I always worried that Cerino would catch a cold from playing in
the morning dew (this is his favorite time to go outside).  Is is OK for
him to play in the grass on damp chilly mornings???
 
My family and I were at the Lynnhaven Mall in Virginia Beach, Va. over the
weekend.  We had gone into the pet store there to see all the animals (a
must with 3 small children).  Inside the store they had about 4 ferret kits
that we just looked at sense it is too close to the holidays for ferret
math at the moment.  While leaving the store we glanced into the front
window display too see more ferrets.  The window display was covered with
pine bedding (flame the store, not me) that was very deep.  Tunneling in
the pine was a ferret.  Well, we all watched for this ferret to come up for
a breather as he tunneled arround his home.  He stopped right in front of
the glass where we were watching from and stuck his head up to look at
us!!!  Oh my God, he is the most beautiful ferret we have ever seen.  I'm
not good at naming colors so the best I can do is sable with a white stripe
going down the top of his head.  And his looks weren't the most amazing
part.  It was his SIZE!!!  I am far from being an expert on ferrets, but
this boy was huge.  Cerino is an average sized full grown male ferret, but
the ferret in the pet store seemed huge in comparison.  I have never seen a
ferret so big!!!  (Again, I am NOT an expert on ferret size.)
 
I asked someone in the store if I could hold him, and she immediately got
him out for me.  When she first went to hand him to me I almost backed out,
not knowing this big boys temperment.  But that ferret face looking at me
was just too irristable.  He turned out to be so nice and so sweet and just
loved his belly rubbed!!!  When I asked his age one person who worked there
tried to tell me he was just 5 months old.  I got a good laugh out of that
and told the man he didn't know ferrets very well, because this boy was
full grown.  Then I asked the price... OUCH!!!  He cost more money than we
had to spend.  Buying him would have meant not paying the utility bills.
 
If anyone reading this is in or near Virginia Beach, and is feeling ferret
math... I know he is a "pet store ferret" but the way I see things is that
all ferrets are innocent victems of where they come from and they all need
homes.  My husband says there was a second huge ferret in the display
window, but I didn't get a good look at him.
 
Once again, thanks for all we have learned here,
Dianne, Cerino and Pandora
[Posted in FML issue 2842]