No doubt you all have seen the story in yesterday’s English newspaper, the Telegraph, saying that it was “insulting to call our animals, ‘pets’” and we should, instead, refer to them as ‘companion animals’!

I had to laugh.

Why would anyone want to put such time and effort into such a frivolous study, pray tell?

I mean, I guess it’s great that the director of the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics has given such deep thought about how insulting it is for our animals to be referred to as pets; and how wild animals get quite upset about being termed as “wildlife” instead of “free living”. Gosh!! Maybe that’s why lions and hippos try to eat us when they come across us in the veld because they know all about our insulting terminology!

Who’d have thought!!

I bought this blue tub on wheels a few months ago to bring my shopping in from the garage into the house.
A not-so-expensive buy from our local Bunnings store.

The ferrets used to jump and and out of the tub but that was it, until recently. When I came home from shopping one day, all the youngsters were at the front door to greet me and, to distract them from racing outside, I put the plastic bags down on the floor in the hallway and went to the kitchen. When I came back to pick the parcels up, the ferrets were all jazzed up from the crackling noise from the bags so I took the items out of the bags and just dropped the empty bags on the kitchen floor.

Buona Pasqua! 復活節快樂! Sretan Uskrs! Veselé Velikonoce! God påske! Zalige paasdagen! Hyvää Pääsiäistä! Frohe Ostern! Καλό πάσχα! Áldott Húsvétot kívánok! Wesołych Świąt Wielkanocnych! Христос воскресе! Vesele velikonočne praznike! ¡Felices Pascuas! 復活祭おめでとう!

Wishing you, your family and all your ferrets (and other pets, of course) a truly Happy Easter … BUT … just a little word of warning —

Please do NOT let your ferrets go near the chocolate Easter eggs! Chocolate contains theobromine, which is poisonous not only to your ferret, but to dogs as well!

Keep safe and have a great weekend

These photos were taken on Monday, just over 2 weeks from when he got his suprelorlin implant.

I don’t know what I thought I would see after 2 weeks … I didn’t expect him to suddenly have lots of fluffy fur bursting forth out of his back but I suppose I was hoping that once the implant was put in, that it would halt the hair loss. Maybe it did but as I didn’t count every follicle before the implant and afterwards, I don’t know if it did anything

I got sent this video from a friend of my sister’s who knows how batty I am about ferrets.

I’ve seen it before but it still amazes me that they were able to train the ferrets and the fox to stay so quietly on the lady before given the go-ahead to scatter

I bet whoever trains those ferrets has managed to get them all to poop in their litter tray, not to dig in couches and all the other things which I have been a total failure getting my guys to do, or rather NOT do, over the many years of ferret ownership!