My goodness! Doesn’t time fly?! Little Angus was 390g on December 12 and now he is 900g and almost 3 months old!

He STILL isn’t part of the family as far as the girls are concerned, which is a little disconcerting. Poor little man – he wants to join in with their fun and all they do is turn on him like the 3 witches in Macbeth. They are acting like absolute harpies, with Kahlua (the silvermitt) being the worst of them all. What is it with silvermitts???

And Milo …!

Good grief – in all my 13 years of ferret ownership, I have never come across a ferret like him. I mean, I thought he might not be very nice to Angus but I certainly didn’t think that he’d try to kill him.

Every time I introduced them, he became more ferocious in his attack. When I just surrendered Angus’s backside for him to sniff, he bit it.

I once put Angus down on the bedroom floor thinking Milo was in the sitting room. Within seconds Milo came roaring out of the wardrobe and I only just managed to scoop up Angus in time.

I went to the vet and got some of that foul tasting goop to put on Angus’s shoulders, etc, so that the other ferrets would try and nip him and think twice. Philip suggested we let Milo and Angus meet once again and even with that ointment on Angus’s fur, Milo grabbed him and bit down so hard that we couldn’t get his jaws to open. I had to rush to the kitchen to get a chopstick, which I shoved sideways into Milo’s mouth and Philip then prised his mouth open that way.

Poor Angus .. his snowy white fur was pink from the blood trickling from the wounds on his head and shoulers and he was making this heartbreaking sound. If he was traumatized, I was doubly so, as was Philip, who told me to contact Dianne immediately and ask her if she knew of anyone who would be prepared to take Milo because we would have to keep them separated from now on.

You can see the thick scabs on Angus’s head after Milo attacked him.

I knew Philip was right so with a very heavy heart I emailed her with that request but also said that there was no question of not keeping him if we couldn’t find a suitable home for him.

Dianne spoke to the other ladies at WAFFS and they came up trumps. There was a family who was hanging out for a ferret so they all came to our house to meet Milo. He was really well behaved and charming, as he knows how to be. They fell in love with him so took him home with them.

I really had mixed feelings of guilt and relief. However the guilty feelings were shortlived as I knew he was going to a wonderful home and would be spoilt rotten.

So now it’s just waiting for the girls to stop hassling Angus and peace will reign until Seamus arrives on the scene!! I must be a glutton for punishment!

But … Angus and Bonnie, our German Shepherd, get on famously and play together quite happily. The dog is amazingly long-suffering, as Angus does tend to get a little rough at times, but she seems to love it and never growls or snaps at him.

I wonder what Angus is saying to Bonnie :-D

So, things are much better since Milo left but it will be bliss when Angus is finally accepted into the fold ;-)

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