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Post by runningdog on Nov 15, 2017 4:52:30 GMT -5
I got Angus coming up the stairs and along to his cage last night! Poor lad, he didn’t see me lying on the floor waiting for him - though I’m not a small target to overlook, alas! - and he nearly went headfirst into the phone before he stopped and bounced back a bit. Once he’d had a look and I’d spoken to him, he unfluffed his tail and went past me to his cage quite calmly.
I love the synchronised dooking as he comes up the stairs and round the corner. So cute!
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Post by Blue on Nov 15, 2017 14:18:26 GMT -5
That is sooo cute and hilarious! I don't think I've ever heard synchronized dooking before. I've already watched it several times. Thanks for sharing
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Post by abbeytheferret6 on Nov 15, 2017 14:39:13 GMT -5
Love to see happy ferrets:)
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Post by runningdog on Nov 15, 2017 16:20:26 GMT -5
He was out this afternoon and spent a good few minutes running backwards and forwards along that corridor, dooking as he went. I think he just likes to run! He did up and down the stairs several times, including a really good downstairs that he did by hopping backwards from one step to the next, and then ran around downstairs, jumping on anything he could find that rustled. Total madness! I may need to increase his meals a bit if he does this extreme fitness routine too often.....
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Post by Sherry on Nov 16, 2017 12:34:36 GMT -5
That was funny! What a silly boy he's become.
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Post by runningdog on Nov 19, 2017 15:35:44 GMT -5
Angus has just sent the dogs out of their little furry minds! I’d had him running around upstairs with me for a couple of hours this afternoon while the dogs were asleep downstairs with my mother, and Angus eventually crawled behind his favourite chest of drawers and went to sleep. I got wound up in trying to figure out a new diet sheet for the ferrets and lost track of time, but surfaced to hurriedly clean out his cage, leaving the downstairs door open because I was leaving him to go home in his own time, before it was time for the evening meal. I’d just done that when lo and behold, a small white ferret emerged, yawning, from the darkness behind the furniture so I picked him up, gave him a cuddle and popped him back in his hammock, then hurried downstairs. Halfway through the meal, there’s a little scritch-scratch-scritch low down on the kitchen door. The dogs are accustomed to people who knock on the front door. They know this requires Good Dogs to bark. Nobody ever explained to them what you’re supposed to do with people who scritch on the bottoms of interior doors. They threw a pair of matching fruitloops, literally jumping up and down on the spot while staring at the bottom of the door and whining, then paused to sniff along the edge of the door. When someone sniffed back, they started jumping up and down again, with even more confused whining. It was Angus, of course. I’d forgotten to close the bottom door on his cage, having put him into his hammock upstairs, so he’d clawed my bedroom door open and made his way downstairs to join us. I picked him up and took him back, making sure I closed both cage doors this time, but it took several minutes to get the dogs settled in their bed again. They wanted to stand at the kitchen door and stare at it, in case any more ferrets arrived.
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Post by Sherry on Nov 20, 2017 9:22:04 GMT -5
Oh that is too funny lol! What a shame you couldn't have gotten a video!
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Post by runningdog on Nov 22, 2017 8:51:58 GMT -5
Bearing in mind that ferrets stash their favourite toys and their favourite nibbles, I think I’m flattered that Angus just tried to stash me. In his defence, I had just put some bacon on the grill when he came padding round my ankles and I bent down to stroke him, so he sniffed my bacon-flavoured fingers, licked them, then grasped one firmly (but gently) and attempted to drag me behind the filing cabinet.
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Post by runningdog on Nov 27, 2017 14:17:48 GMT -5
Some people pull rabbits out of hats, I’m told. Maybe Angus was looking for these mythical rabbits..... I only turned my back for an instant after putting the hat down and when I glanced back..... If the cap fits!
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Post by Sherry on Nov 28, 2017 11:58:09 GMT -5
Oh too funny
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Post by runningdog on Nov 28, 2017 18:31:48 GMT -5
It’s hard to believe he’s the same ferret we met back on page 1, isn’t it? That untrusting, traumatised ferret who had to be picked up with a glove on has turned into the soppiest, silliest, most adorable fuzzball imaginable. It’s worth all the scars and bloodshed to see him happy and blossoming, and there’s just no way to describe how it feels each morning when he hauls himself out of his hammock, yawning and stretching and wanting his cuddle.
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Post by LindaM on Nov 28, 2017 18:46:55 GMT -5
It is ALWAYS worth the scars and bloodshed to help these wee loves come out of their shells and learn to trust again. Often they are the sweetest things once that wall is brought down, sweeter even than ferrets who had never been mistreated or abused ever in their lives. I am so, so happy to see how well the two of you have progressed, it's been an amazing journey to follow.
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Post by Sherry on Nov 29, 2017 12:27:30 GMT -5
That trust gained is the most amazing feeling, especially those first overtures made by the ferret wanting to trust and making that great leap for you
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Post by runningdog on Nov 30, 2017 9:47:24 GMT -5
Angus’s excuse for having a lie-in today was he was up playing until gone midnight! Pampered little carpetsnake. I didn’t get to bed until well towards 1am thanks to cleaning up the kitchen behind him, but do I get a lie-in? Here he is, caught on the phone camera doing his wake-up routine. Some days he does both front leg stretches at once and then hangs his legs over the edge waiting to be picked up and snuggled - other times he does one leg at a time and doesn’t want so much of a cuddle. He’s still adorable.....
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Post by Sherry on Nov 30, 2017 11:42:20 GMT -5
Oh how precious
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