Hi, my name is Anna Abney and I recently acquired my first ferret. She is a rescue, about 5 years old, sable, named Vykos and she is AWESOME. She gets along wonderfully with my 3 resident and 5 foster cats (who are used to strange and unusual things coming home with Mom) and has no trouble putting my 55 pound dog in her place. Normally my dog is very calm and gentle with small animals, but this is her first ferret and she wants to play too roughly. She has chilled enough to allow her to sit on a leash while Vykos runs around and she recently learned that Vykos' nose end is just as sharp as the nose end of all my cats. She has an enormous 5 foot tall wire cage for when we are not home or are asleep but otherwise she has free range of the house. She accompanies me and my dog Eve to work every day and is learning to walk on a leash. She is so good at the leash thing I swear she must have been a dog in a past life. She's a great ferret ambassador, being very curious about strangers and very accepting of petting and holding. She plays very gently with us humans but has no compunctions about chomping the cats or the dog, lol. It's ok, they always deserve it, lol. I feed all of my animals a raw diet and am slowly converting Vykos onto the same. The proper feeding of small carnivores is something I am very experienced and comfortable with and I have an excellent source of human grade organic, high quality meats of all kinds. So far Vykos has nibbled rabbit and chicken. It will be slow going since she has a 5 year old kibble addiction to kick, but I've successfully switched 12 cats (my own and others) and nothing, not even a ferret, can be as snobby and picky as a spoiled rotten cushion puff princess cat (am I talking about my Luna cat? Nah, couldn't be her.) So I tell myself every day "she will eat raw, she will eat raw" and so it must be, because I won't be buying kibble for the rest of Vykos' life. Ferret math is already coming. The cage is so huge I need at least one other ferret to help Vykos fill it. So if anyone knows of a nice, middle aged ferret kid in need of a forever home in the Southeast, please let me know. He/she will have the best of care and will never want for a thing. Anna and Vykos (plus kitties Luna, Arthur, Nathan, Bastett, Gracie, Chase, Zeus, and Miette and Eve the =DCber Dog) Greenwood, SC [log in to unmask] [Posted in FML issue 3961]