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    Default I like your ferrets, Emily!

    I used to own 2 ferrets. One was Otis (named after Otis Redding) and the other was B.B. (after B.B. King). Otis was a lithe and active sable, and B.B. was a fat little silver mitt. He was more of a lap ferret than Otis. They used to lounge in the hammock together and of course they always stole my stuff and hid things under the sofa. I had to leave them behind when I moved to CA because it is illegal to own a ferret here..

    But they are great little pets. I miss them.
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    They are so cute. My sister bless her heart had a sable ferret named Elvis. He was so nice. Would wait for you to sit on her couch, he would go under it and nip lightly on your toes. He would bite toe nails off...no need for clippers.

    He was cool. Best ferret i met so far. Even liked a bath.

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    Default Re: I like your ferrets, Emily!

    Did someone say bath?






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    ^^^cute-o-meter just went off the scale - the little brown one's feet in the water!!! sooo cute.

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    Default Re: I like your ferrets, Emily!

    They are cute. But how do you train them from biting you? My gf had one and it bit the shit out of her finger so hard, that I saw his head shake(that's how hard). I couldn't help but laugh. She gave it away.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Vyanka View Post
    They are cute. But how do you train them from biting you? My gf had one and it bit the shit out of her finger so hard, that I saw his head shake(that's how hard). I couldn't help but laugh. She gave it away.
    We picked a word that we told everyone when they came over (and we used). We didn't want to use "no" because it comes up too often, so we picked "ouch." If a ferret starts biting too hard while we play with them we'll say "OUCH!"...if took a while, but they always stop biting or go back to play biting (depending on what they were doing at the time).

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sunshine73 View Post
    I used to own 2 ferrets. One was Otis (named after Otis Redding) and the other was B.B. (after B.B. King). I had to leave them behind when I moved to CA because it is illegal to own a ferret here..

    But they are great little pets. I miss them.
    You are the coolest. Pets named after Otis Redding & B.B. King? Coolness.

    I used to work for a state department in CA in charge of confiscating "non-native species"- you did the right thing by not bringing them to California. It would have been terrible for the ferrets if they had been confiscated.

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    Default Re: I like your ferrets, Emily!

    thanks! I have 4 (which is not a lot for me...I've had up to 11)....The ones in my avatar are sables (the one with the black nose is called a black sable.) My black sable is Animal (show name is Animal Crackers) and the sable is Aerial (show name is Aerial Perspective). And yes, I showed them, but not anymore. Ferret show politics are nasty.

    here's another. This is Pip. She's a dark-eyed white (not albino). I never showed her. She's not really show quality, but she's so cute!

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    Aerial looks like my Bandit!

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    Default Re: I like your ferrets, Emily!

    I used to have three. I loved them dearly. They were so sweet; I'm constantly cautioning people, though, that they aren't "pocket pets" - you don't get a ferret the way you get your kid a hamster.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Vyanka View Post
    They are cute. But how do you train them from biting you? My gf had one and it bit the shit out of her finger so hard, that I saw his head shake(that's how hard). I couldn't help but laugh. She gave it away.
    Some of them are bitier than others; understand that ferret have thick skin and it doesn't really hurt them very much. It apparently even takes them a while to figure out that they've been burned (compared to us. Not compared to, for example, a glacier forming). I had one that was very bitey - she eventually grew out of it.
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    Default Re: I like your ferrets, Emily!

    Oh my gawsh, I wanna ferret sooo bad now. The bath picture = SOOO FRICKIN CUTE. I want I want.

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    Default Re: I like your ferrets, Emily!

    ferrets are pretty awesome, but I hate to say it....dogs are cooler.

    They were perfect when I was living in the dorm and wasn't allowed to have pets, which I of course interpreted to mean "pets you can't hide".

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    *glances around at her dorm* *starts looking for a place to get a pair of ferrets*

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    Aw, all the little SW ferrets are so cute!

    And Emily I must say I dig the new avatar-yous jus' tryna be like dat guy on craigslist-you know, the guy wit his own lil' business! 'Member him?
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    Default Re: I like your ferrets, Emily!

    Awww! I love the - damnit, pookah just turned my radio on - little white ones! That's so cute how they're swimming in the bath! Pookah just freezes and looks like a drowned rat... the lil butthead. Ferrets are so adorable! Constant entertainment! Pookah's stealing my bunny slipper as I type.

    Emily, are yours drawn to velcro like drugs, too?




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    velcro? No

    They have their own room that they are not allowed out of, and there's no velcro in there.

    And yeah, the new avatar. I am putting together my new casual encounters ad for craigslist. Let's hope this works!

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    Pookah-burgers!!!

    Now I want a ferret... do they end up in humane societies sometimes? I never saw one when I volunteered there, but I'd rescue one of those cuties!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Emily View Post
    velcro? No



    They have their own room that they are not allowed out of, and there's no velcro in there.



    And yeah, the new avatar. I am putting together my new casual encounters ad for craigslist. Let's hope this works!
    Is that a joke? Aren't you the one who found that skinny dude with the little fan of twenties? Hehe.
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    Quote Originally Posted by hardkandee View Post
    Pookah-burgers!!!

    Now I want a ferret... do they end up in humane societies sometimes? I never saw one when I volunteered there, but I'd rescue one of those cuties!
    I'm sure they are. They're certainly a handful. I can see people getting rid of them as soon as they figure out that they're not low-maintenance pets.
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    Default Re: I like your ferrets, Emily!

    I used to volunteer for a ferret shelter. They are everywhere because normal animal shelters only take dogs and cats, so if they get a ferret dumped on them, they call the ferret rescue people.

    And lots of people dump ferrets because they are more high maintenance than people expected. So they should be easy to find, especially if you want more than one or you want an older one. I know there are tons on petfinder.org.

    and yes, Bella, it's a joke. When I put a CE ad to find sex, just put me out my misery.

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    Aww, that was cool you showed them Emily. How did you do it? Do you just put them up on a table or "walk" them? I use to show my shih-tzu.

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    Default Re: I like your ferrets, Emily!

    ferret shows are more like cat shows

    they are kept in small cages until the judge wants to see them, and they pull them out and feel them up....and then put them back for the next judge.

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    Default Re: I like your ferrets, Emily!

    These are my babies....

    Two recently passed away due to old age.

    Names starting at 9:00 going clockwise: Boogie, Matilda, Squirt, Fat Guy

    -e

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