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Post by Deleted on Feb 29, 2012 0:47:10 GMT -5
ahahaha Those pics are so cute!! Marcy will sleep in the middle of the floor like that if I turn on the in-floor heating.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 29, 2012 2:51:32 GMT -5
Oh my gosh. Finn has become so smelly now. I get up in the morning and feed the ferrets, then I shower and put on clean clothes (which have not touched the ferrets since they were washed) and go to work... And people at work can smell the ferret scent on me somehow! I am trying to find a house to move into so the ferrets can have their own room, which would help control the smell, but for now, it's getting crazy! He's so greasy he's just slimy, if I pick him up and pet him, when I put him down I can SEE and FEEL and SMELL the oil all over my hands! Has anybody figured out a way to live with an intact ferret but be able to leave the house and go to work without smelling like ferrets? Is there any way to contain it?
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Post by nancyl on Feb 29, 2012 12:07:01 GMT -5
Dude. Welcome to the wonderful world of whole hobs. If you can get a place with where you can have a ferret room it will help, but like the poor the smell will be with you always. I don't let mine near the closet. They do go in the bedroom but the closet is always closed. As are all the dresser drawers where any clothing is kept. Joan keeps her bedroom off-limits entirely.
And yes, he's greasy and slimy and sticky and everything he touches will be greasy, slimy, and sticky. Your floors will be brown soon no matter what color they're supposed to be. Keep the shoes you wear to work put up somewhere so he can't slime them. They'll get reallllllly gamy if he can. Keep some kind of fairly strong soap available to wash your hands and forearms with just before you go out. Lava works pretty well at cutting the stink.
Also, HAHAHAHAHA!!!
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Post by Deleted on Feb 29, 2012 12:27:23 GMT -5
Does the smell permeate clothing through the air, or is it mostly just by contact? I live in a 900 sq ft apartment so if the smell can get on my clothes through the air, there's not going to be any way I can stop it until I move
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Post by nancyl on Feb 29, 2012 12:35:28 GMT -5
It's really more of a contact thing. But see, if he smears his stink across the couch and you sit on the couch your clothes will pick it up. As far as that goes, you don't even have to sit on the furniture where he's been. If he rubs against the chair legs or the upholstery along the lower edge and your pant leg gets against it, it will pick up the smell.
And they get on/into places you'd never think about and rub it around. Cos, a jill might happen by anytime. Yanno?
There are worse things. I used to work on a hog farm. Pig stink gets in your hair and skin and does not wash out. It does sweat out however, and if you happen to break a sweat in a crowded room you can clear that sucker in a matter of minutes.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 29, 2012 13:04:58 GMT -5
Wow. Well then. The next 6 months are going to be a lot of work, being very careful not to "contaminate" my work clothes ;D I'm afraid my entire apartment is contaminated already. Finn has had free range of the place, so his funk is in the carpet, on the furniture, on my bed, on tables, shoes, everything he can reach. I was thinking I could get some of those moist cleaning wipes and make sure to keep my clean laundry away from him, and wipe things off that might transfer oil from one place to another. I keep my bath towel hung up where he can't reach it, and the latest batch of laundry hasn't touched ferrets. I also got some shoes out of the closet that Finn hasn't touched. This morning I fed the ferrets and then I showered, put on fresh clothes, and was careful not to sit on my bed or touch anything, I even wiped my hands off after I left because Finn grease might even be on the doorknob. Well see if anyone smells hob stink today at work... What makes this process harder is my sense of smell is not very good. I have always had bad allergies and maybe that's why, but I don't have a keen sense of smell. I can't detect the ferret odor unless it's strong, so other people can smell it on me when I don't notice it's there.
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Post by nancyl on Feb 29, 2012 13:14:28 GMT -5
That's about how it goes. Good luck.
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Post by joan on Feb 29, 2012 13:32:33 GMT -5
Your poor sense of smell explains why you can live with a hob in his first rut in such close quarters. The only owner of one of my hobs besides Nancy who lasted through an entire breeding season without neutering was a guy who had virtually no sense of smell. I could smell Raku from across the room, but he couldn't smell him unless he held him right up to his nose.
Good luck in getting through this!
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Post by Deleted on Feb 29, 2012 14:50:22 GMT -5
Is there really very much difference between their first rut and subsequent ruts when out comes to smell? Or is it mostly the behavior that is worse in the first rut?
My Co-workers said they couldn't smell it today so I think my new morning routine is working.
I also started wearing Cologne to mask any faint remaining odor...
Could be worse, I had a friend who had powerful body odor, there was no way to get rid of it, he would shower 2 to 3 times a day but it always came right back within an hour lol...
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Post by Deleted on Feb 29, 2012 21:17:56 GMT -5
Well, looks like the weight loss has started. Finn has lost about 3 ounces this week. He's down to a waif-like 5 lbs 10 ounces!
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Post by Deleted on Feb 29, 2012 21:25:41 GMT -5
You can get an air purifier tower and have seperate outfits you wear inside when you sit down and another clean one you change into when you go out.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 29, 2012 23:34:35 GMT -5
Yep. I would keep the work clothes in a locker room or office closet and change them out from the laundry/cleaners, depending on where you work. Either that or get some Bulgari por homme. Then it won't matter what else you're wearing. ;D
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Post by Deleted on Mar 1, 2012 1:03:37 GMT -5
LOL maybe I'll order some of that cologne. Well, today Finn seemed especially forlorn and restless. I let him play in my room for a while (Fenton and Fiona got to play in the kitchen separate lol), then when it was time to put them away I tried something different. Finn has been staying in his own FN141 bachelor pad while Fenton and Fiona are in the 3 story FN143 with a rice dig box upstairs. Tonight I did a cage swap, put Finn in the 3 story cage and let Fenton and Fiona take the little cage for tonight. Fenton and Fiona curled up together in the cuddle cube and didn't seem to mind being in the small cage at all. Finn meanwhile seemed SO happy to be back in his old home again! He was especially happy about the rice dig box. He climbed in there and curled up to sleep, more comfortable than I've seen him ever since he moved to his own cage! Poor bub, he missed his home! Then later tonight, I wanted to cuddle him a little. I went to get him out, and he was still sleeping in the rice dig box. Apparently he was very comfy, because when I tried to pick him up, he curled up in a ball tighter, and made a little "SQUAWK!" noise like "Leave me alone!" I tried a couple more times to pet him or pick him up and each time he jerked his little body and squawked, he did NOT want to be disturbed! ;D I didn't realize how much he missed his rice box to sleep in. I just might have to get him a 2nd story for his bachelor pad, and furnish it the same, with a rice dig box... These little fuzzy monsters really know how to wrap us around their little paws...
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Post by Deleted on Mar 1, 2012 10:49:04 GMT -5
Just an update, I let Finn play with Fenton and Fiona today, and it actually went pretty well. Everyone was really hyper and had lots of fun. Finn of course focused on trying to catch and mount Fiona the whole time, but the reason it went pretty well is Fiona was playing "keep away from Finn" most of the time, out-running him, hiding in small places he can't fit in, etc. ;D She seems to have learned how to evade him!
They all got some good exercise and worked out some of their energy. Finn of course was very noisy, singing his hob song while he chased Fiona around. Every few minutes he would tire of chasing her and then pick it up again a few minutes later.
Finn pretty much ignores Fenton now, as Fiona is more interesting, but Fenton gets all riled up and excited by the chase too even though he's not the target! He even tries to catch Fiona too.
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Post by Heather on Mar 1, 2012 13:06:02 GMT -5
I think that supervised play might be the ideal thing for Finn. He's really missing his friends but as soon as he has them to play with...his hormones get in the way. Fiona has figured out that she's just that much smaller than he is so she can hide and well...like Odin's desire for Lady "B" Finn's decided that Fiona is what he wants and Fenton isn't. You will still get some flack if he thinks Fenton is trying to get his girl but perhaps it will be easier once everyone learns the rules.....Finn's rules ciao
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