Post by gabriel on Jan 23, 2012 19:12:42 GMT -5
Hello fellow ferret owners/lovers/admirers/addicts. To the moderators and creators of this wonderful site, Merci Beaucoup (I'm just learning French so everyone's a guinea pig, you folks are no exception save you don't have to hear my pronunciations).
I owned my first ferret at 12 and named him Rikkitikkitavi (one of my favorite childhood cartoons). I had owned gerbils, rabbits, dogs and everything else but from there on it was a no contest. I took Rikki out every day after school to play but if I would forgot one day, the next time I took him out, he would run merrily about until I tried to play with him, then he would turn his back to me, nose pointed in the air and stare at the wall until I stopped trying to get his attention, then he'd go back to playing on his own. One Easter, I put a brand new, still sealed in the package solid chocolate bunny on top of my computer desk and later came back to find it on the floor, opened, tray slid out and bunny ears gone.
I'm now 27 and I've owned 6 ferrets, including my current 4 year old love Ophelia and todays newest addition, my little baby boy, Willow. They are the first silvers I've ever had and they are the most beautiful ferrets I've ever seen (but I might be partial). I have no idea on which sd card Ophelia's many beauty shots are located so I will have to take some new and I will post them momentarily as well as some of my newest.
The last two ferrets I owned were Hazel and Wildfire who I rescued from a family that supposedly found them and had no idea how to properly take care of them. Unfortunately, after seven wonderful and loyal years, Hazel passed from Adrenal cancer and within a few months, Wildfire began showing signs of Insulomnia and rapidly declined until, after one night coming home to find her in the throws of a severe seizure and the doctor telling me she would be brain dead, I had to make the worst decision of my life.
Finding this forum is a blessing because I really just couldn't endure another bumpy ending. To think that all these years, my babies have been suffering because I was complacent with store bought dry foods is really... something I've had to avoid contemplating because it's too painful.
But I'm here now and I have two wonderful children that I'm dedicated to seeing live beyond the Marshalls doom number, 8. Thank you so much and... I've been browsing this site for a couple of days now but I came here tonight because I really do have a question, lol, so please check it out and I would be, of course, grateful for any help and support.
I owned my first ferret at 12 and named him Rikkitikkitavi (one of my favorite childhood cartoons). I had owned gerbils, rabbits, dogs and everything else but from there on it was a no contest. I took Rikki out every day after school to play but if I would forgot one day, the next time I took him out, he would run merrily about until I tried to play with him, then he would turn his back to me, nose pointed in the air and stare at the wall until I stopped trying to get his attention, then he'd go back to playing on his own. One Easter, I put a brand new, still sealed in the package solid chocolate bunny on top of my computer desk and later came back to find it on the floor, opened, tray slid out and bunny ears gone.
I'm now 27 and I've owned 6 ferrets, including my current 4 year old love Ophelia and todays newest addition, my little baby boy, Willow. They are the first silvers I've ever had and they are the most beautiful ferrets I've ever seen (but I might be partial). I have no idea on which sd card Ophelia's many beauty shots are located so I will have to take some new and I will post them momentarily as well as some of my newest.
The last two ferrets I owned were Hazel and Wildfire who I rescued from a family that supposedly found them and had no idea how to properly take care of them. Unfortunately, after seven wonderful and loyal years, Hazel passed from Adrenal cancer and within a few months, Wildfire began showing signs of Insulomnia and rapidly declined until, after one night coming home to find her in the throws of a severe seizure and the doctor telling me she would be brain dead, I had to make the worst decision of my life.
Finding this forum is a blessing because I really just couldn't endure another bumpy ending. To think that all these years, my babies have been suffering because I was complacent with store bought dry foods is really... something I've had to avoid contemplating because it's too painful.
But I'm here now and I have two wonderful children that I'm dedicated to seeing live beyond the Marshalls doom number, 8. Thank you so much and... I've been browsing this site for a couple of days now but I came here tonight because I really do have a question, lol, so please check it out and I would be, of course, grateful for any help and support.
I'm glad you decided to join us! Please, feel free to browse, post, ask questions, and join in on the coversations 
Sly
Especially Willow! But then- I'm a little partial to that name 