How I started with ferrets. In the early 1980s one of my best friends mom had two beautiful little stableboy's. one was absolutely sweet and just loves to give kisses to everyone. The other liked the crawl into your sleeping bag and chew on your toes like they were tasty vittles. Seeing that I spent a lot of time over my friends house I got very used to having the ferrets round and absolutely fell in love with them and I decided at that point in time that someday I would be a favorite owner I just didn't know when. In 2001 came my chance my wife Tami called me from a friends and told me that this person was going to get rid of they're ferret because it was old (gasp). I told Tami to scope him up and bring him home right then no one should be thrown away because they're old. This is how we ended up getting Serenity. Serenity was free roam first thing in the morning he'd we would open up his house and he would stay out and about all day long until bedtime at which time he would climb into his home go to sleep and we close the door until morning. He was my little old man. We had him for just over a year before he passed. Is estimated age was 11. He love to steal coke cans and fruitloops. He hide our daughters toys in the couch. The pain of his loss hurt me so much it took a few years for me to get back on the horse so to speak. In 2005 we got wiggles our first kit and joined a ferret group. It's been a wonderful ride from there. We have given love and shelter to 20 ferrets that our no longer with us and and the 4 still with us today. So that's my story of how I started out with ferrets. Mystic aka Nathan Karpf [Posted in FML 8173]