Welcome, Felonious Weasel...

[Chief]

I was at the local pet supply picking up ferret food and treats, and bumped into the Manager of the store. She had received a phone call from a young lady, who said she had been given a ferret by a friend, but that she didn't want it, and wanted to know if she could "drop it off" at the store. Of course, that isn't possible because they never know where that animal has been. The manager asked if it was OK to give her my phone number if she called again, and I said yes.

Sure enough, an hour or so later my cell rang, and it was a young lady who was claiming that she had "found" the ferret loose in her backyard. I got directions, grabbed a per carrier, and headed out.

Turns out that this is a fairly young male, full chocolate, and has the 3 Marchall's tattoos on his ear so he has been neutered. This was a petstore ferret that either escaped, or someone got tired of him and just turned him loose. In any case, he's set up in my spare isolation cage for now.

I just had him to the vet to be scanned for a chip, and he doesn't have either kind installed, so I'm betting he is a refugee. He's got a great personality, likes people, and if he gets along with our four girls, then he just became the Grand Poobah of quite a ferret Harem...every henhouse needs a rooster, even if the rooster is a eunuch...

Felonious Weasel is a great name for a male ferret...

Pictures to follow...

mrgrn

[Waterbuffalo]

:-) Well Well Welll...

Keep us informed about your new weasel male. Hope he turns out to be a wonderful addition to the brood of fun and does not learn to be an additional escape artist.

Hope to see some wonderful pictures in a month or so when he's settled down and into the household routine. Not sure when that is for a new ferret and the rest of the clan will finally get to the point that this might be possible.

[Chief]

We had the three young ones together in the pen today, and let them work things out. He likes to play, and play rough, which suits the two younger girls just fine. They were in there nucking and clucking all day, and they're all crashed and burnt in the hammocks as I type this.

I think he's going to fit in fine. This week I'll get him to the vet for another distemper shot, and a chip so he won't fet lost again.

He's going to be a big boy too....he has the Pasha routine down pat, laying in the hammock while he leans over and packs away the groceries from the food bowl that's close at hand. He is very long, and once he fills out, he'll go three pounds or better. In the meantime he keeps up with both of the other two just fine.

Five ferrets is a lot, but we so have the room for him, soooo....

mrgrn

[Waterbuffalo]

I bet he'll fit in nicely and help you keep away varmints of various types.

Are ferrets good animal deterrents? Like keeping mice and gophers under control?

Or regular visits from Door to door salesman and women, unannounced dinner visitors, and pesky phone calls?

Could you record their clicks and add them to you telephone message to make certain people think they're being kicked off the phone if the phone message runs a 15 or 20 seconds too long?

Always wondered if you could add those clicks and advertise it as a anti-telemarketer idea?