Pet Forum / Mammals / Ferrets / May 2005

With the help of my mink ferret's office  6 yr old Ione crossed the
Rainbow Bridge Tues evening.  She had gone into insulinomic shock that
day and I couldn't bring her out of it.  I tried dripping honey on and
under her tongue.  She was siezing so bad I couldn't risk my fingers

Are tomatoes ok for a wee land bat?
She loves them diced up and will dive into dish and growl "if you can call
it that haha" if you try to move her?

Ferrets for Dummies was delivered today. Can't wait to read it.

I actually thought that Commando Fuzz would be a good place to learn
about ferrets.  I applied, and was accepted.  Not more than 24 hours
later I started receiving hate mail from the owner of that group.
Learned my lesson.

The place where we got Lucy & Sugarbear a couple of months ago is a
very nice shelter in Spokane.  It's run by a really nice woman named
Paula.  
http://www.icehouse.net/ferret/

I posted a while ago about Shadow's hind leg weakness; that has since
gone away for now, though I keep some Karo Syrup nearby.  I've been
planning for some time to give him a physical which will be done soon.
He is over 5 years old now.

Over the past few mos, Oberon's had some problems, which we're all totally
at a loss about. Believe me, out vet has done a ton of tests, & he's also
stumped.
At first, we thought it was adrenal, cos he was acting a little more

Thanks for the invite to this wonderful newsgroup. We wanted a ferret even
before we purchased our first hairless rat. My wife is from California where
its ILLEGAL to own a ferret.
She always wanted one and when we where starting out I could not afford a

Our Bacchus is almost 1 year old now.  Since he moved in with us, he's lost
a little fat, grown more muscular and developed his ability to jump and
climb.   He has 3 speeds of locomotion, walk, canter and dash.  The walk is
the gait you see when your ferrets are snooping around on ...

I know I must read ferrets for dummies, but can someone give some good toy
ideas?
TIA.

This is a great fundraiser, for a great shelter. Hubby & I are driving 1000
miles from central Florida to go.
These people are my friends. I can't imagine why anyone would try to prevent
them from raising funds for the shelter. Ferrets need help, no matter what

Finn McCool was one of my ferrets.  He was a black sable with a black
nose.  He had such a great personality.  I used him a an education
ferret for many years.  Awhile back he was showing early signs of
adrenal and I added melatonin to his water bottle.  In the last week,

Ive only just started reading this group.  I am pleased to have found some
ferrety people.  In Australia there is only a small number of ferret groups,
which is mostly the ferret societies in 3 states.
I actually run a ferret site, which is www.ozferret.com i hope you dont mind

We have a cute little girl sable named, Fiona. She's about 2 years old.
She's a real snuggler, and loves to be held and stroked. She hardly ever
wants to get down. We got her at a shelter.
She periodically will clean her face when we hold her, usually aftger a

Our bill AB 647 is before the Assembly Appropriations Committee and needs to
move forward or die. Please don't let this happen. The bill in its current
version does NOT include an expensive environmental reveiw which would be
paid for by ferret owners and reviewed by a hostile ...