Hello my name is Bethany and I live in Australia and am I am new to the FML so please excuse and inform me if my etiquette is wrong. I Run a shelter for ferrets and am lover of ferrets. At present I have 27 beautiful carpet sharks. They all have names and personalities that are very distinct though I would not say color affects their personality although sex and altered state does. I was curious to know about the olive oil discussion as this is a vegetable oil and thus unwise for ferrets and also may act as a laxative? To the person with a ferret in heat that need a "whole" male. I use desexed males which have had at least one season being undesexed and these have not failed to bring a jill out of heat so a late altered male may be a good bet, though getting her 'fixed' is probably a safer course. To the frequent comments that ferret cannot climb(like a cat or like a gecko?)someone should tell M'irim an altered albino female of some 2 years who acts just like a cat including going straight up trees and curtains. Ferrets cannot climb???? As to the vegetable matter in things they kill. My ferret are raters they do a marvelous job in the hay shed and all they leave me is a few shreds of skin whether they need this vegetable matter I could not say though being true obligated carnivore not ominvores, I would suspect not. Bethany Leditschke and the ever growing furry, feather, scaled and skinned clan at [log in to unmask] [Posted in FML issue 1904]