Ferrets! Better than coffee.

[fireun]

There is something absolutely glorious about listening to rescue ferrets play in the morning. Being a creature of deeply ingrained habit, I was checking my email first thing in the morning, and became mightily distracted due to the sounds coming from the ferret cage. Sigyn, Alicia, and Celia were up in the hanging nest duking (a low sort of purring chitter, the ferret happy noise) to each other and rolling about in play. 

Alicia, who was more or less on deaths door when she was surrendered to the rescue and had NO idea how to be a ferret (she came with a...hamster ball...). Sigyn who has only been here a few weeks. And Celia, who has become our all-purpose mothering ferret since she joined the household in November, even though she is just about a year old. I love seeing everyone acting like healthy, adjusted ferrets.

Sigyn eventually fell out of the hanging nest, but she is still at the awkward baby stage so it was expected. She has now chased Selena, the ferret she was surrendered with (another very young female), out of the octopus toy and they are having a grand tussle around the bottom of the cage.

Adoption event next month. On one hand, it will be great to introduce the kids to potential adopters, and it is ALWAYS fun to run into the 'but I thought they were smelly and mean' comment and merrily burst that bubble. On the other hand...can't I just hide Sigyn in the octopus and pretend she was here all along?

Comments

[rukusho.livejournal.com]

Not going to lie...I had a minute where I went "....I was chased by a ferret this morning? .... ._.;;"

[fireun.livejournal.com]

I wish I could say that has never happened...

there was that time djkc left the cage open when he went to bed...

[laurose8.livejournal.com]

Thank you. That was a real pleasure to read.

I loved to hear of duking.

[desperance.livejournal.com]

"can't I just hide Sigyn in the octopus and pretend she was here all along?"

Yes. Yes, you can. *enables*

[fireun.livejournal.com]

You are a wonderful ferret-enabler and I love you for it.

[desperance.livejournal.com]

Hee. I kind of think I owe something to ferrets, 'cos my only experience was long ago and not good, and I did come away thinking they were smelly and vicious, so...

[fireun.livejournal.com]

I was amazingly lucky- the first ferrets I met were insanely well cared for and well-adjusted. I was doomed as soon as I agreed to foster that first pair for the rescue. The little guys grow on you. Oliver, the fellow in my icon, was one of the original two, and is one of the four(five, if Sigyn manages to stay) permanent residents .