Well the ferret population has been established in our house. We are now proudly owned by a 6 week old sable female named Loki. Already in 24 hours we have learned more than any book could ever tell us. DOES SHE NEED CPR? The first thing we realized is that they don't sleep, they breath in their death. We can hold her, roll her into a ball, rub her belly, play with her feet, or maybe launch her into space, and the most we get is the occasional yawn and sneeze and she goes back to sleep. FERRETS DREAM She will be sleeping, and all of a sudden she will twitch a foot, flutter her tail, or even just move her whiskers. IT'S ALLERGY SEASON FOR EVERYONE She seems to like to sniff our faces, hands hair, ears, and then sneeze on them. ...I SHALL FEAR NO EVIL... For such a small thing she has no fear. She loves riding on, digging in, and exploring Jen's chair. Like I said, we were planning on getting the ferret yesterday, and with how much we were looking forward to it there was no way we were going to skip it. So I did my calling around and found that the only place that had any ferrets had just gotten them in that day. so we load up the car and head off to get us a fuzz ball and all the fixins. When we got there we asked to see the ferrets, and it we fell in love instantly with this little girl. but upon closer inspection we found that there is now way that it could be a PV ferret, it had two small dots in her left ear. We had us an MF ferret. But that was not a problem, after reading the post by Andrea Franzini about how PV ferrets can have "Attitude Problems" we are kinda glad that we got her. we get her, her giant new ferret cage(4 floors), and all of the other stuff home and start to get her area all set up. The first thing we found out is that she s too small for her harness, even when t is set to the smallest size(I told you she was small). then we get her cage all set up with hammock and all, put her in the hammock, she then proceeds to fall out of it(not very coordinated). after a little food, a little water, and a poop secession she is ready to come out and meet her people. she is passed from person to person(sleeping the whole time), but is still a very happy ferret. Take care everyone, OIK, Jen, and their new owner, Loki -- ________________________ /\ \ \_| OIK | | [log in to unmask] | | | | ____________________|_ \_/_____________________/ [Posted in FML issue 3029]