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"Bob Shimbo" <[log in to unmask]>
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Fri, 28 Jun 1991 19:50:00 -0400
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To Lenny: If all your ferrets are still fighting, try giving everyone a
bath
in something like Odor Mute all at once.  This starts them all off equal
as far as scent goes.  If that doesn't work, you may just have to let them
fight it out.
Don't worry about him hurting the females; a typical healthy jill or
sprite can wreak havok on the largest hob.  I used to have a sprite named
Peaches the Hun who was paralized in her hind end.  Consequently, never
having been able to run from a fight, she learned how to fight REAL dirty.
When the Hormone Brothers were six-pound adolescents, they tried ONCE to
get the best of her.  She grabbed them by the ear, pounded their heads
into the floor once or twice, and they ran away screaming.  From then on
they would go to any lengths to avoid having to walk past her.
 
You might want to introduce them not in a cage but in a maze of weasel
tubes (4 inch PVC pipes cut in foot long sections and connected with T
and Y joints).  This way everybody feels they have a place to escape to.
 
On starting a club: DON'T BOTHER UNTIL YOU"RE WILLING TO DO ALL THE WORK
YOURSELF FOR THE FIRST YEAR!  I found this out the hard way starting
CFFA many years ago.  It basicly fell apart when I decided I wasn't going
to do everything myself.  Starting up the national club was much easier.
People willing to do the work are out there, but they seem to be out
there in groups of no more than two per state...
 
=Fa Shimbo (Bob owns the CompuServe number, I send all the mail...)
                                                                          
[Posted in FML 0152]
                                                                          

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