I saw this Posting by
Bob Church in the FML...
and just HAD to put it on my page
With his permission, of course!!!!
Bob's List of Ten Things
for any and all to read!!!
to Keep Your Ferret In Top Shape:
| 1. Neutering is good. Use it as a mantra. Ummmm... |
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2. Socialize with your ferret at least twice a day. More if they are caged. More if they are ill. More if they are dying. Socialize means talking and touching and playing and scratching and treats, not just looking. Understand? |
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3. Only feed the top quality foods. The pennies you save will be spent later as dollars if you don't. Break out of the "kibble is best" brainwashing if you can, but if you can't, get high quality ferret or kitten foods only. |
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4. Find a good vet and use them. Don't abuse them, don't double-guess them, don't underpay them. Don't roll over for them either; ask lots of questions and expect detailed answers. Take detailed notes, especially of treatments and drug doses and schedules. Carry a medical or veterinary dictionary with you if you don't have the vocabulary. If you have been told of an alternative treatment, present it in a polite and reasonable manner, or better yet, bring in a photocopy of the article. The point is, work together to build a medical strategy for your ferret, then follow it. |
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5. Repeat after me. I *WILL* make sure my ferret is innoculated against rabies and distemper. Say it again! Again! I can't HEEEAAAR you! |
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6. Don't smoke around your ferret. I have no problem if you personally decide that the proven health risks are worth your drug effects, but ferrets have no choice in the matter. You wouldn't like it if they made you breathe anal sac emissions all day long, and those aren't even life threatening. Keep a mental image of the "Methane Emissons in the Spacesuit" scene in "Rocketman," and smoke somewhere else. |
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7. A cage is a boring, confining space. Let your ferret run around until it wants to sleep, then play with it to make it run around some more. Give it a new toy from time to time. Throw in new stuff for it to investigate. Enrich your ferret's environment or you may bore them to death. Literally. |
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8. Understand that your ferret wants to interact with you. They do. They love to play, they love to investigate, they love to explore. That's their nature. Let them be ferrets. Interact with them. |
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9. Remember the last time your job was stinky-butt bad and your best friend was pissed and your computer wasn't working right just when you needed it and you didn't have enough money to fix your car and your significant other yelled at you and you were sick and the toliet overflowed and you locked your house keys in the trunk of your car along with the trunk key and everybody was too loud and your roof was leaking all over your irreplacable photos? All you wanted was a quiet, safe place to relax and take it easy. Well, ferrets do too, so give them a safehouse to hide in. A box with a hole, a dark bag, even a slightly open drawer. Someplace where they can relax and chill and feel safe. There is nothing better than a warm, dark hole..... irresistable. |
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10. Don't worry about the occasional carpet stain. Ignore the wall marks and the sofa holes. Look past the shredded carpet, the chewed stuff, the yellow puddles. Focus on the war dancing, the delighted sniffing, the chase and the bounds and the rolls and the dumb pratfalls. Delight in the moment, because it is only here a short while and then you will have a hole in your heart where a silly weasel used to be. |
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Well...he did it again!!!
A silly poem fer yew
Whence Came Poo?
(By Silly Boy)
What is that under my shoe?
Into the air I nearly flew--
I saw brown, it wasn't blue.
Thank you very much; Elvis has left the liter box.
(who hate reading for oral exams so much
Please Email me
this "poem" is hilarious!!!!
I've slipped on something under my shoe.
Whodonit? Wish I knew.
But someone pooped under my shoe.
The track to the poop was true.
It ended directly under my shoe.
The other end held not a clue.
Yet someone pooped under my shoe.
I'm not sure what to do
To get the poo from under my shoe.
Can you sue for a doo-doo?
Can you go to jail for a slipery poo?
Jail for whoever pooped under my shoe.
A cow has to be left to moo
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A beer has to be left to brew.
You can't stop rain whatever you do.
How can you stop a ferret's poo?
There is nothing that I can do
When someone poops under my shoe.
Silly Boy!! I saw you!
It was you! You made the poo!
You backed up right behind my shoe
And cut loose your doo-doo.
That puddle was your's, too.
Well, that mess isn't anything new,
So I'll overlook your poo under my shoe.
Bob C and 19 MO' Undershoe pooers
they had to take a silliness break...
please forgive me)please come back soon and visit us.
