Saturday, August 30th, 2008 at
3:35 pm
I saw this article about two BFF kits born in June at the National Zoo and the amazing thing was the fact that their father has been dead for about 8 years!
It got me thinking about how I wish I had had access to technology like that when I was breeding ferrets 13-odd years ago. We had a gorgeous sable male we called Chucky back in 1994 – he was such a handsome fellow with an absolutely wonderful temperament.
I allowed Chucky to be used as a stud before we sterilised him and we got the pick of the litter when the kits were born. Read more...
Thursday, August 14th, 2008 at
6:30 am
I was in the study working yesterday and heard a weird noise, so I came into the bedroom to investigate what was going on.
Angus had decided that one of Philip's ugg boots should be taken to his "boudoir" and so had dragged it across the bedroom floor and tried to stash it in the drawer of the "Chest of Drawers Hilton" where they all sleep.
What a little monkey! He was looking at me as if butter wouldn't melt in his mouth ... a real "Who ME?" moment when I asked him what he thought he was doing with the boot. Read more...
Sunday, August 10th, 2008 at
8:46 am
Ooops! I just found out that the little mink that someone found and wrote to me about is not, as originally thought, a handsome young man but is a beautiful young lady 
On
April 10 I had an email from a lady in Louisiana who was given a tiny little animal by someone who found it, and she asked me what sort of animal I thought it might be. She thought it was a strange type of ferret but when she mentioned the white chin, I realised it was a mink.
The lady wrote about the mink's progress and then on
May 11, she advised that she'd had to surrender the mink to
Zoo Zoom as she decided it would be fairer on the mink to be looked after properly.
Lori & Brett Matte wrote to say that Sebastian, as they named the mink, had settled in happily and was doing fine but after a while, I was wondering how he was getting on. I wrote to Lori the other day and got a reply back, together with photos.
Sebastian is now Saaby and Lori said she's full of energy and is great fun, a real star at Zoo Zoom. Apparently she won't eat kibble, she just chows down on boiled chicken wings and raw ground meat and she lives in a big enclosure.
Lori was saying it was quite hard to get a good photo of Saaby, as she's so quick when awake, but she sent two pictures which show how much Saaby has grown since that photo taken on May 11.
Have you noticed Saaby's slightly webbed feet in the left-hand picture? Obviously being semi-aquatic, the minks need the webbing to get them moving in the water.
Read more...
It got me thinking about how I wish I had had access to technology like that when I was breeding ferrets 13-odd years ago. We had a gorgeous sable male we called Chucky back in 1994 – he was such a handsome fellow with an absolutely wonderful temperament.
