Hello!
We have both been busy...
Lots to update. So as you know I now have a 4th ferret I rescued Jojo. We are working on his transition. First weights and such.
1. Ferret's name: JoJo
2. Ferret's weight: 2 lb 3 oz
3. Ferret has eaten "X" amount on average per meal: 1/4 - 1/2 oz per meal of soup...I started letting him have some kibble again in the middle of the day like you suggested via text.
4. Stools on various proteins. He had big tootsie roll poops on the kibble but on the small amount of soup it's been runny and brown and SMELLY
5. Activity levels: High. He's kind of crazy. He always wants to go go go, to get out of whatever area he's in. More than the other ones. I was surprised to see him like that. He cage rages all the time if he sees me or wakes up. He plays with all the other ferrets.
6. Weekly menu: He was eating his Marshall Kibble at first, then I totally took it away and was forcing him to eat soup which has been challenging as I showed you via text. He's getting better though. So for now it's soup in the morn, soup in the eve, and i let him have a little kibble during the day.
1. Ferret's name: Lola
2. Ferret's weight: 1 lb 10 oz
3. Ferret has eaten "X" amount on average per meal: 1/2 to 1 1/2 oz per meal
4. Stools on various proteins. When meaty bones, poop small solid and brown, when organs or heart more black and a little runnier
5. Activity levels: Medium. She loves all the new ferrets but doesn't like to play as long and as hard as they do.
6. Weekly menu: Franken Prey diet. Has been eating quail, game hen, chicken heart, beef heart, beef liver, chicken liver and beef kidney. (The same diet I had been doing...I have 2 weeks worth of that pre-prepped stuff i did a while ago. I wasn't able to get stuff when I went through Juneau -our transition times were not long enough on the way back to shop and I didn't want to carry frozen rats and meat with me for a week in Fairbanks. I will have to take a trip next week to Whitehorse to restock.)
1. Ferret's name: Lil' Kit
2. Ferret's weight: 1 lb 1.2 oz (she gained 2 ounces)
3. Ferret has eaten "X" amount on average per meal: 1/2 to 1 1/2 oz per meal
4. Stools on various proteins. Her poops are getting less weird, but now we know what was happening. Baby ferret poop. I watch her chew and she chews well so it wasn't that.
5. Activity levels: High. She is crazy and cute! She plays with Piggie most but her and Lola have bonded for snuggle partners.
6. Weekly menu: Franken Prey diet. Has been eating quail, game hen, chicken heart, beef heart, beef liver, chicken liver and beef kidney.
1. Ferret's name: Piggie Smalls
2. Ferret's weight: 2 lb 2 oz (I am tripping out that piggy has lost a whole pound and that JoJo weighs more than he does...Piggy is still fat and JoJo is quite skinny but they are the same length.)
3. Ferret has eaten "X" amount on average per meal: 1-2 oz per meal
4. Stools on various proteins. He and kits poops are getting more normal.
5. Activity levels: High. He's crazy too. He loves to play with Kit, with Lola, with Jojo, and with me. He will be running around war dancing and play fighting with the other ferrets and I'll walk by and suddenly he will turn and leap towards me full war dance style mouth open arms and legs outstretched and attach himself to my lower leg and dook and freak out and bite and then war dance off. I've been grabbing a toy to put between me and him when he does that and let him attack the toy instead because I can't even grab him to discipline him.
(It's all very cute...really. He's just in 100% play mode and wants to play with me too which the others don't do as much.)
6. Weekly menu: Franken Prey diet. Has been eating quail, game hen, chicken heart, beef heart, beef liver, chicken liver and beef kidney.
So, we have jojo now. Things are good with him and the other ferrets. They all get along great. He was having a really really hard time at first taking the soup, like I showed you in that video. It was days of me having to stuff and scruff a bite of soup and then he would take minutes to "chew" it and turn his head upside down and lick his leg while doing it. Today though, for the first time, he actually licked up about an ounce of soup by himself! I had a tiny tiny portion of one piece of kibble and I stuck it on top of the soup (I had used it to lure him into the scale) and he actually went right to the soup and licked up the crumb of kibble and then kept licking till the whole plate was almost empty. That is very very exciting to me. I had only been letting him have the soup for a while, hoping he would get hungry and it would help the process but after texting you a couple days ago I let him have some kibble in the middle of the day. I'll try to stop that now though , now that he just ate a whole plate of soup. Was it dangerous for me to put a crumb of kibble in it though? If it's not maybe I should keep trying that method for a bit till he gets more comfortable with the soup.
I do want to push him though, it's a bummer I"m back to square one when the other ferrets are about at graduation. I don't want it to take as long as it did with Zin and Lola. I am about to get busy though, but I'll have time morning and even at least (and during the day some days) to work on making him eat. I've been feeding him separately in the bathroom.
Here's some pictures of Jojo
I need to do pictures of the other ones too.. I've never done kit and piggy (on here anyway) and haven't done Lola since I started. I'll take some of those too.