New ferrets, old ferrets, found ferrets, bold ferrets …

It’s been an interesting month or so. Then again, I guess it’s always interesting here.

We got a ferret named Mickey in from an outlying Humane Society. Nice ferret, doesn’t bite. Then we discovered he was deaf as a stone and blind as, well, blinder than a bat. He navigated by nose. He knew when you would come up to his cage, and he most certainly knew if you were carrying the famed Hide-E-Hole version of duck soup (or dook soup and some people call it). He was thin when he came in, but after some excellent food and fattening duck soup, he filled out nicely. He was adopted by a nice lady who is somewhat disabled and wanted a ferret to love. It turned out that Mickey loves to be with his people, and he climbed her leg to get on the couch to nap with her! [Maybe I should have charged more?! LOL]

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We also got in a little female named Mercury. She’d been purchased at Roger’s Flea Mart in Ohio to save her from dying in 95 degree weather. He hadn’t planned to get a ferret, but he couldn’t leave her panting in the hot sun with no food or water. [If anyone has the time to fight to get the sale of live animals at Roger’s banned, it needs to be done.] He’d been told she was spayed. Well … apparently not because she came into season big time. He thought it was adrenal disease and couldn’t afford treatment. He was also a pre-med student and going into med school in a year, so he decided it would be better for her to be surrendered. He didn’t really want to surrender her. The quote he got for adrenal surgery (no one around here even does that anymore except in unusual cases) was over $1,000. A Deslorelin implant is around $150-$200 and works better. But what she really needs is to be spayed. We got her a hormone shot and we’re waiting for things to calm down so we can spay her. She will be available for adoption once she is spayed.

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This little girl was found wandering around outside. The time to claim her has past, so she’s available for adoption now. She’s sweet, mild, playful and really quite beautiful. She is a chocolate, but a rather light one. Her body is a little too dark to be a champagne. We’ve tried her with a few ferrets, but she keeps getting beat up. We don’t know if she’s aggressive out of fear or if she’s just plain being picked on. At any rate, even as a single ferret, she’s quite happy. Anyone adopting would need to take special care to keep her from escaping. She has shown absolutely no sign of biting (even while being chased for hours by a group of kids trying to catch her).

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This is Blizzard. He’s been here for over a year, so he’s not new, but he’s still cute. He originally came in with Scooter, but Scooter (even though he was much younger) died of lymphoma. Blizzard has gone completely blind and lost most of his fur. He’s scheduled for a Deslorelin implant (or at least a Lupron shot, depending on what the vet says). He’s deaf, too. But when you let this scruffy little dark-eye white guy out (he’s really a darked-eyed pink right now) he plays and has a marvelous time. He loves to roll in the bin of cornstarch peanuts, scratch his back on rough-textured things, dance, explore — all the things ferrets do. He doesn’t play long these days, but we think he has some fun in him yet. If someone would be willing to take him in, the adoption donation would be very low. He just needs his own place with his own people to cuddle him like he deserves.

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This is Pookie. She’s privately bred and very beautiful. She dooks a lot, plays fast and is quite the wired little weasel girl. Her big problem is that she is nippy. She tries to see what she can get away with and will nip when she wants to be put down. When she was young, the owner put her down when she bit, so now she thinks that’s how she’s supposed to do it. She will nip if she thinks you aren’t paying attention, too. She doesn’t bite me or my daughter, but does like to chomp on a couple of my volunteers! So she needs to go to someone who can handle nippy little shit ferrets. I think with the right handling, she will settle down some. I wouldn’t trust her around kids, though.

I will be working to get these ferrets listed on the adoption pages, but I just wanted to give everyone an update on what’s happening.