First I want to apologize for any typos, I am sending this from my phone and it likes to correct things that don't need to be corrected. My name is Tiffany, years ago I had two ferrets, Charlie who I got from Petco and Sebby who I was lucky enough to pick up from a local freecycle. Seb was already seven when we got him, and lived to be eight. Charlie passed way too young, he was taken at about a year and a half from Adrenal. Fast forward to 2011 and I haven't had ferts for four years! I watch my local craigslist daily (i was actually thinking of guinea pigs), and yesterday (4/13) I saw a listing for two female ferrets with all accessories for 200.00. I emailed them originally just to wish then luck and was told I could take them for fifty. I jumped on the chance! We drive the three or so hours to Kansas City to pick up the kids and found then in pretty bad shape. Their cage is not big enough for two ferrets, their food was family dollar store cat food, their bedding was clumping cat litter, they had no water bottle, their nails were very (VERY) long, and they were skinny. I named them Lucy and Ethel. On the dive home we picked up some care fresh, some good ferret food, and a water bottle. When we got home their cage was disinfected while they happily weasel war danced around the kitchen. Last night they slept on some of my daughter's fleece shirts. We took them out to play and cut their nails today and while holding them I saw something and thought to myself "Ferrets don't have belly buttons!" Lucy and Ethel have been renamed Ricky and Fred, and so far are getting along fine with us! I also contacted Rose at Little Feet Ferret Bedding, and she is a very nice lady who is working with me to spoil these boys! I can not wait until they get their Marshall Ferret Estate and all of their LFFB. The ferret community is just as great as I remember. And a little about my human family: I am 24 years old, and I work with developmentally disabled/intellectually deficient adults. I have been with my SO for going on eight years now, he will be thirty soon. I have a five year old son and an eleven month old daughter. Tiffany Ricky and Fred [Posted in FML 7033]