Morning everyone! For those not in the know, we've adopted two of the ferrets from the New Year's Day London Ferret rescue. THANKS RANDY!!!!!!!! We took the two worst of the lot, because we knew they weren't. Lunge and Munch. They're re-named now to their permanent names. The nicknames will always remain. Well, Zabaks (Lunge), and Poga (Munch) are quite overwhelmed, but happy. First off, for the non-Latvian speaking crowd, Zabaks means Boots, and Poga is Button. Zabaks also has a secondary meaning for when the boy will be doing something stupid. Zabaks is also a Latvian slang word for dummy, as in "dumb as a boot." Last night: The two settled into the ferret room pretty quick. The whole crew including the cat went to check them out. Results? Buster and Zabaks had a rank battle (expected) - Zabaks submitted after a few minutes. Buster wanted to keep beating on him, but Zabaks was too tired. Enter Hobo. Hobo, who seems to deny the alpha females their right to practice dominance on her, saw this battle, and promptly put herself between Buster and Zabaks - Zabak's first friend. Later, Buster was caught sleeping with Zabaks and Poga. ; ) Poga, who is the cutest little thing, is remarkably similar in appearance to Putt-Putt. She hasn't had any problem with anyone else ... yet. She is VERY timid when we come in the room, but will come out after a few seconds of uncertainty. Both Zabaks and Poga are wetting my face with sloppy kisses this morning! Noone has been bitten! Errr..... OK.... SAM has been bitten. Many times. Sam is a new venture for them. Tasty too. They've never seen a cat before. Not up close anyway. Sam's been good at trying to discipline them on what is acceptable or not. He's taking a lot of chomps by both (big ones), and has not yet used his claws against them. He's just smackin' them on the head when they're out of line. I have a feeling Zabaks and Sam will be good sparring partners in the future. Zabaks is really taken with him. Poga was screaming as she jumped at Sam last night. She had Kate in stitches. Normally we're used to screaming when ferrets are fearful or on the defensive, but not on the offensive. It's very amusing. More later... ------------------------------------------------------------------ This post forwarded by Toronto Internet Ferret Group List [ Send posts to: [log in to unmask] ] (416) 782-7824 Best regards, Rob and Kate Adlers (TIFG list maintainers) ------------------------------------------------------------------ [Posted in FML issue 2212]