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I forgot to post this here!!!

so all day ive been calling rescues in my state who have also been calling around my state to help me find a young and energetic ferret in need of a home. ferret people are fantastic and everyone has been really friendly to me!

well while I was at petsmart today to buy some more stuff for the future ferret I got a call from a woman who runs a rescue. one of the other rescues contacted her for me and she said she had a bonded pair that were young and full of energy and she managed to talk me into adopting 2 instead of just one


she texted me a picture of them

the boy is the dark one and is about a year and a half. the little girl in the back is only 6 months.

I cant wait to bring them home whee hubby wants to name one of the haehel (hail) to stick with our oddly spelled weather names. don't know which one will have that name. im horrible at thinking up names so I will leave it to hubby


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they are home and adorable! they are also litter trained. the girl's name is haehl and the boy is slyiet. pronounced hail and sleet. the girl is the light colored 6 month old and the boy is the dark 2 year old

the boy is a marshals mill ferret and the girl no one knows about because she doesn't have any ear tattoos. their vet thought she had been spayed because her vulva is small but I will ask my vet to have a look at her too just in case.

haehl is a biter. she licks for a bit then chomps and shakes her head around. no broken skin but its a habbit I will try to break her of.

slyiet loves to run around the house at full speed and him and stowrm enjoy biting at each other.

and I guess now you guys want pics right?



the cage with the ferrets. the woman we adopted them from was wonderful and gave us some extra hammocks and other toys for them.


they were really thirsty after riding across the state all morning.


saying hi to the dingo for the first time


finding all the comfy spots in the cage


time to go explore the rest of their new home


and after a few hours of exploring they were worn out

thanks. im so happy to have them home now. they are a ton of fun

slyiet was sleeping in my lap for most of the drive home

ive been doing some light research on them since I was in college. i never knew anyone who had them until recently

I thought they would require more work to take care of, but they are pretty easy. clean litterboxes when I first wake up, fill food and water bowl, then make sure everyone uses the litterbox before leaving the cage, hard play for an hour or 2, then sleep for pretty much the rest of the day besides some small bits of play here and there. hopefully as they settle in more they will want to play more. and so far ive only had 2 accidents outside of the cage so I think I may get another litterbox to keep in a corner beside the cage

and putting them on good cat food has been pretty easy so far, they really like wellness core and eat it just as much as the purina they were used to eating. getting them to eat raw has been a bit tough though. the boy shows no interest in it and the girl just licks all the juices off of the meat

I hope so.

she has finally started coming out of her shell and does death strikes to the house phone and one of stowrm's stuffed toys that squeaks. we had her chasing the phone all around the house, probably a bad habit to teach her but it was cute. and she accidently got a great grip on my finger but I think she thought she had the toy because she tried to drag me under the couch.

im so used to being bitten and scratched by animals that I forgot to make a noise or flinch to get away even though she drew blood. I was distracted by how cute she was being. I have no survival instincts lol

Cuties! I don't know if you know but if she isn't spayed you should wait till about a year or so for her to be spayed. Other wise adrenal is more likely in her older years!