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		<title>My gorgeous Angus is at the Rainbow Bridge :&#8217;(</title>
		<description><![CDATA[TweetI am still reeling in shock at how quickly his illness progressed and how it took only 3 full days from getting a red flag alert to burying him As some of you might now, Angus had adrenal gland disease (AGD) and had a Suprelorin implant inserted into him a year ago. He was doing [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://all-about-ferrets.net/my-gorgeous-angus-is-at-the-rainbow-bridge-2</link>
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		<title>The Ferret Squad</title>
		<description><![CDATA[TweetWell there&#8217;s no stopping Alison Parker!  After completing &#8220;Jake &#038; Jasper, A Ferret Tale&#8221;, she is now embarking on another movie called &#8220;The Ferret Squad&#8221;. The story is about a teenage boy, again played by Connor Stanhope, who&#8217;s moving to California with his father. The fly in the ointment is that he has a ferret [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://all-about-ferrets.net/the-ferret-squad</link>
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		<title>Hot weather and ferrets</title>
		<description><![CDATA[TweetFor those of us living in the Antipodes, summer is well and truly among us and especially here, in Western Oz, it&#8217;s hot hot hot. I know many ferret owners know the dangers of ferrets and heatstroke but for some of you newbies out there, please be careful if you have ferrets and they live [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://all-about-ferrets.net/hot-weather-and-ferrets-2</link>
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		<title>Happy New Year to All My Ferret Friends :)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tweet I hope you (and your ferrets, of course!) all had a wonderful Christmas and I really do hope that this coming year will bring only happiness, peace, prosperity and good health to everyone. I must say that reading the news makes me want to climb into bed and throw the covers over my head [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://all-about-ferrets.net/happy-new-year-to-all-my-ferret-friends</link>
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		<title>Merry Christmas to all ferret owners out there :)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tweet Here&#8217;s wishing you all a wonderful Christmas and I hope that 2012 will be a very happy and healthy year for you and all your ferrets. As always, I would just remind you to please be careful during the Yuletide celebrations and watch out for your ferrets so that they don&#8217;t get into trouble [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://all-about-ferrets.net/merry-christmas-to-all-ferret-owners-out-there</link>
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		<title>Naughty ferrets or complacent ferret owners?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tweet Hrmmmm, let me contemplate that question for a moment! Yes, I think it&#8217;s the fault of the owners who have grown too complacent about their ferrets! LOL! I heard a noise in the kitchen earlier this morning and when I clumped (I&#8217;m on 2 crutches after my knee operation) to the doorway, I was [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://all-about-ferrets.net/naughty-ferrets-or-complacent-ferret-owners</link>
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		<title>Dig box for ferrets</title>
		<description><![CDATA[TweetSome of you might remember that I made a dig box for my guys a few years ago which was a mega fail. I&#8217;d got a bag of aquarium gravel and filled one of our grandkids&#8217; toy boxes with it. I honestly thought that the ferrets would love it, as they were always scratching around [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://all-about-ferrets.net/dig-box-for-ferrets</link>
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		<title>Do ferrets get moody?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[TweetNo, it&#8217;s not a trick question I seriously wonder if they do! My Mojo has totally broken the mould I had for albino ferrets. I always considered them to be wonderfully smoochy, loving little things, then along came Mojo! I&#8217;ve never known a ferret to be such a Jekyll and Hyde She&#8217;ll cover my face [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://all-about-ferrets.net/do-ferrets-get-moody</link>
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		<title>Ferrets and a new drug called EBC-46</title>
		<description><![CDATA[TweetA ferret friend sent me a link to an article in Pet Wiki about new advances in dog cancer, pointing me to the paragraph written by Dr Ananya Mandal in June 2010, which said &#8230; &#8220;Queensland, Australia scientists have discovered a drug to cure cancer that has effectively worked in animals and is to be [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://all-about-ferrets.net/ferrets-and-a-new-drug-called-ebc-46</link>
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		<title>I hope my ferret Mojo doesn&#8217;t have adrenal problems!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[TweetI was looking at Mojo the other day and realised her tail looked like it was losing hair just at the base. Can you see what I mean here &#8230; Her fur looks just a little bit less at the very top of her tail compared with half in inch below. My heart sank. Having [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://all-about-ferrets.net/i-hope-my-ferret-mojo-doesnt-have-adrenal-problems</link>
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		<title>Vale my sweet little Seamus :&#8217;{</title>
		<description><![CDATA[TweetIt&#8217;s been a terrible two weeks Seamus seemed to pick up a bit after his bad teeth were removed but after a few days it started to get harder to get him to eat. I thought that maybe his mouth was hurting him so I made an appointment to see the vet on Tuesday. She [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://all-about-ferrets.net/vale-my-sweet-little-seamus</link>
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		<title>Dental problems and ferrets &#8230;.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[TweetWell I hang my head in shame For the past 17 years I haven&#8217;t had any problems with my ferrets&#8217; teeth. In fact, my vet has always complimented me on the great condition of all my guys&#8217; teeth so when Seamus stopped eating his kibble, it never occurred to me that he might have problems [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://all-about-ferrets.net/dental-problems-and-ferrets</link>
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		<title>My Ferret Farts soap has finally arrived!  Yay! \o/</title>
		<description><![CDATA[TweetBack in May I came across this soap made by the Goat Mountain Soap Company and couldn&#8217;t resist ordering it! The order was mailed on May 24 but, as it happened, the Canadian postal service went on strike at or around the time my order was dispatched so it took a while to get down [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://all-about-ferrets.net/my-ferret-farts-soap-has-finally-arrived-yay-o</link>
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		<title>Help, there&#8217;s a ferret in my soup ;)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[TweetWe had two of the grandkids over last weekend so brought out the IKEA kitchen, together with the supermarket store and other toys we had. As we are having another kidlet over this weekend, we left the kitchen in the sitting room. When we let the ferrets out last Sunday, they were fascinated with the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://all-about-ferrets.net/help-theres-a-ferret-in-my-soup</link>
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		<title>English ferret kits being sold WAAAY too early!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[TweetThis makes me FURIOUS! Utterly and absolutely FURIOUS! I was looking at my ferret FB page when I saw a post from an English ferret owner saying &#8230; &#8220;This was one of three kits that Cathy Wareing has rescued from a shop called Brunos in Billing Northampton. They were charging £39.95 each. Clearly two of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://all-about-ferrets.net/english-ferret-kits-being-sold-waaay-too-early</link>
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		<title>Interview with ferret experts</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tweet&#160; I get a lot of emails from new and old-time ferret owners at my site asking me various questions about their ferrets, mainly asking for advice on what to do when their ferret is sick or asking questions about breeding. Then a couple of years ago I read about Ferret Health Advancement at MSU.  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://all-about-ferrets.net/interview-with-ferret-experts</link>
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		<title>Frolicking Ferrets!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[TweetLife is never dull when you have a ferret (or six) in the house K-Mart have a toy sale on and I saw some interesting things to get for the kidlets (grandchildren). We already had an Ikea kitchen unit for the littlies and I had also found some supermarket-type boxes, a cash register and other [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://all-about-ferrets.net/frolicking-ferrets</link>
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		<title>Jake &amp; Jasper: A Ferret Tale</title>
		<description><![CDATA[TweetAlison, the producer of Jake &#38; Jasper: A Ferret Tale, emailed me at my site to ask me to help promote her film and also asking for donations. When I saw what the film was about, I was happy to put some money in and I hope some of you ferret owners who read this [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://all-about-ferrets.net/14760</link>
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		<title>More on the baby/ferret story</title>
		<description><![CDATA[TweetWell there you go &#8230;. the police have arrested the parents of that poor baby and now we learn that they weren&#8217;t at home at the time of the tragedy. The news article said that the police crime lab had found human blood in the ferret&#8217;s stomach but there is NO mention of bits of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://all-about-ferrets.net/more-on-the-babyferret-story</link>
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		<title>Ferrets and glaucoma</title>
		<description><![CDATA[TweetAt the beginning of this year I noticed that Seamus&#8217; right eye was bulging slightly so we went to my vet for a check-up. The diagnosis was glaucoma There&#8217;s nothing that can be done for that and, as a blind ferret is not a handicapped ferret, it didn&#8217;t upset me too much to hear that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://all-about-ferrets.net/ferrets-and-glaucoma</link>
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		<title>One thing you shouldn&#8217;t give your ferret &#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[TweetLittle things happen and with ferrets, so often little things make us scratch our heads and wonder why is this happening. Such was the case of Kimiko on Sunday morning! I&#8217;d given the ferrets their smoothy and, as you might be aware, I&#8217;ve been adding just a small bit of coconut oil butter to their [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://all-about-ferrets.net/one-thing-you-shouldnt-give-your-ferret</link>
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		<title>Coconut oil and ferrets</title>
		<description><![CDATA[TweetAs you know, I&#8217;m giving both Angus and Seamus a daily dose each of DHA Omega and it&#8217;s obviously helping Seamus, since I can see how he&#8217;s perked up since I&#8217;ve been giving it to him. Angus has always been full of beans so I can&#8217;t state categorically that it&#8217;s helping him but I hope [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://all-about-ferrets.net/coconut-oil-and-ferrets</link>
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		<title>Angus and the Ugg boot</title>
		<description><![CDATA[TweetYou know that kid&#8217;s book called &#8220;Where&#8217;s Wally?&#8220;? Well, I think I should write a kid&#8217;s book called &#8220;Angus and the Ugg Boot&#8220;. Angus does NOT like Philip&#8217;s Ugg boots to be left on the floor &#8211; they have to been hidden. Mind you, I&#8217;ve told Angus that he&#8217;s not a very good hider of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://all-about-ferrets.net/angus-and-the-ugg-boot</link>
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		<title>Ferret Farts Soap</title>
		<description><![CDATA[TweetI love researching stuff about ferrets   I was wondering if coconut oil was good for ageing ferrets and, lo and behold, Google produced a link to the Goat Mountain Soap Company which has &#8230;. ta dah &#8230;. Fffferret Ffffffarts Ssssoap!!!!! What a brilliant present for us to give our family and friends, don&#8217;t you [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://all-about-ferrets.net/ferret-farts-soap</link>
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		<title>My babies are back from their operations :)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[TweetDash, before his operation &#8230; &#160; and Dash&#8217;s shaved area after his castration &#8230; And the lovely Kimiko before going to the vet &#8230; &#160; and my baby&#8217;s shaved belly after being spayed &#8230; When I dropped the little ones off in the morning, I was told to pick them up at 4pm unless someone [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://all-about-ferrets.net/my-babies-are-back-from-their-operations</link>
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		<title>Another update on Angus, my ferret with adrenal problems</title>
		<description><![CDATA[TweetTake a look &#8230;. don&#8217;t you think he&#8217;s looking a whole lot better? This is the before shot, taken a couple of weeks ago &#8230; and this photo was taken this morning &#8230; As you can see, he&#8217;s lost that translucent skin but now he has a yellowish tinge to both his skin and his [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://all-about-ferrets.net/another-update-on-angus-my-ferret-with-adrenal-problems</link>
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		<title>I have said mea culpa to my ferrets for calling them my pets!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[TweetNo doubt you all have seen the story in yesterday’s English newspaper, the Telegraph, saying that it was “insulting to call our animals, ‘pets&#8217;” 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? [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://all-about-ferrets.net/i-have-said-mea-culpa-to-my-ferrets-for-calling-them-my-pets</link>
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		<title>A new ferret playground</title>
		<description><![CDATA[TweetWho&#8217;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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://all-about-ferrets.net/a-new-ferret-playground</link>
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		<title>Happy Easter to all my friends and their ferrets</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tweet 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 &#8230; BUT &#8230; just a little [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://all-about-ferrets.net/happy-easter-to-all-my-friends-and-their-ferrets</link>
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		<title>Update on Angus, my ferret with adrenal disease</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tweet These photos were taken on Monday, just over 2 weeks from when he got his suprelorlin implant. I don&#8217;t know what I thought I would see after 2 weeks &#8230; I didn&#8217;t expect him to suddenly have lots of fluffy fur bursting forth out of his back but I suppose I was hoping that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://all-about-ferrets.net/update-on-angus-my-ferret-with-adrenal-disease</link>
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		<title>Training ferrets to do tricks &#8230; to my mind, amazing!!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[TweetI got sent this video from a friend of my sister&#8217;s who knows how batty I am about ferrets. I&#8217;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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://all-about-ferrets.net/training-ferrets-to-do-tricks-to-my-mind-amazing</link>
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		<title>This is nothing to do with ferrets &#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tweet&#8230; only about Bam, the dog which was found floating on the roof of a house THREE weeks after the tsunami hit that part of Japan! (C)(Reuters : ABC News) When I first heard that the Japanese Coast Guard found a dog alive and well floating on the roof of a house out to sea, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://all-about-ferrets.net/this-is-nothing-to-do-with-ferrets</link>
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		<title>Angus, my albino boy, has adrenal gland disease :(</title>
		<description><![CDATA[TweetI&#8217;ve dodged this bullet for SEVENTEEN years!  Imagine that! Well &#8211; actually that&#8217;s not entirely true, as Muis my albino girl who developed insulinoma got it at the end of her life but the AGD was as a result of her insulinoma. You might have read my post about Seamus, when I thought he had [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://all-about-ferrets.net/angus-my-albino-boy-has-adrenal-gland-disease</link>
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		<title>Ferrets &amp; poisonous things around the house</title>
		<description><![CDATA[TweetThere have been a few Google alerts in my mailbox to warn owners about xylitol and ferrets in the past few weeks and just today there was a story about a vet who examined a ferret suffering from liver damaged caused by eating Tic Tacs. It seemed a good time to remind all ferret owners, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://all-about-ferrets.net/ferrets-poisonous-things-around-the-house</link>
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		<title>What about the pets of Japan after the tsunami?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[TweetLike everyone, the scenes of the earthquake and tsunami in Japan have left me shell shocked and now, with the problems at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant, it makes you wonder when enough is enough for the poor country. I don’t know anyone who lives in the affected region but the tragedy was made more [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://all-about-ferrets.net/what-about-the-pets-of-japan-after-the-tsunami</link>
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		<title>A cool ferret game &#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[TweetIt&#8217;s been so hot recently that I was wondering what I could do to keep the ferrets cool and then I had a great idea &#8230; ice cubes in their water dish I know they melt quickly but I was very curious to see what the reaction would be so when Mojo was at the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://all-about-ferrets.net/a-cool-ferret-game</link>
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		<title>Dash in the Water Dish &#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[TweetHe is one water weasel &#8211; no other word for him We have an old bathtub in the laundry that has the food and water dish in, being contained so (we hope) no mess scattered. It always makes me laugh to go into the laundry and see Dash snorkling around in the water dish and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://all-about-ferrets.net/dash-in-the-water-dish</link>
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		<title>Nothing more on the baby/ferret story</title>
		<description><![CDATA[TweetI&#8217;ve been searching the internet and couldn&#8217;t find anything about whether the necropsy report had been done and if it had, what the result was. Then I found this article, which says absolutely nothing new apart from the fact that the children have been taken off the parents and now live with other family members. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://all-about-ferrets.net/nothing-more-on-the-babyferret-story</link>
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		<title>Happy Valentine&#8217;s Day from the Otters :)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[TweetI thought this was such a cute video, I just had to share it with you all A thought! Maybe we should be baking or making some kind of heart-shaped treats for our little darlings for this coming Monday! LOL! Wishing you and all your ferrets a very HAPPY VALENTINE&#8217;S DAY filled with much love [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://all-about-ferrets.net/happy-valentines-day-from-the-otters</link>
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		<title>Seamus, my sweet sleepy ferret</title>
		<description><![CDATA[TweetI love my sleepy ferrets but I adore it when they stick their tongues out when sleeping &#8211; it&#8217;s so cute I found him zonked on our bed, snoring quietly and dead to the world, so had to take these photos. Poor guy, the hair on his belly still hasn&#8217;t grown back fully after his [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://all-about-ferrets.net/seamus-my-sweet-sleepy-ferret</link>
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		<title>Dash, my last ferret &#8230; long may he live ;-)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[TweetI promised my long suffering husband that Dash will be my last addition and, as my older guys leave us for the Rainbow Bridge, I also promised I wouldn&#8217;t replace them. I wanted to have one of each colour and, of course, in a perfect world I would have a boy and a girl in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://all-about-ferrets.net/dash-my-last-ferret-long-may-he-live</link>
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		<title>Fidget reincarnated &#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[TweetIt&#8217;s amazing but Kimiko reminds me so much of Fidget, my first silvermitt. Take a look at these photos &#8230; First is of Fidget on the flowerpot &#8230; and this is Kimiko, sprawled on the kitchen floor &#8230; Both are big girls and have very pronounced markings &#8211; dark legs and tails and an almost [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://all-about-ferrets.net/fidget-reincarnated</link>
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		<title>Update on the story about the ferret which ALLEGEDLY ate the baby&#8217;s fingers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[TweetTo be honest, there is no update! I have been scouring the internet hoping to find the necropsy results but to no avail The only news article I&#8217;ve found which has new information is on The Pointe&#8217;s website. What I never knew was that someone was trying to rescue the ferret from the family before [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://all-about-ferrets.net/update-on-the-story-about-the-ferret-which-allegedly-ate-the-babys-fingers</link>
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		<title>More on that ferret/baby story</title>
		<description><![CDATA[TweetOkay, here are more points about that incident where the poor ferret was accused of eating 7 fingers off a baby as reported by The Pointe. What we already know is that the mother claims she fell asleep next to the baby in the sitting room. She said she woke up “when she heard the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://all-about-ferrets.net/more-on-that-ferretbaby-story</link>
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		<title>Ferret eats baby&#8217;s fingers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[TweetHave you all read the news reports about this? Have you scratched your head and wondered how on earth a ferret COULD have done that, like I did? I&#8217;m sorry but something doesn&#8217;t smell right here and the people reporting this don&#8217;t seem to care about ferreting (pun intended) out the facts! Tell me &#8211; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://all-about-ferrets.net/ferret-eats-babys-fingers</link>
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		<title>A very lucky otter pup!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tweet Photo Wildlife Extra News How fortunate was this little otter pup? A family was walking their dogs near Rigg, a village in southwest Scotland, heard the little pup crying in distress. They didn&#8217;t do anything at first, I guess thinking that the mother might be nearby and if they interfered, it might make things [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://all-about-ferrets.net/a-very-lucky-otter-pup</link>
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		<title>A very Happy New Year :)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[TweetMy quirky quintet send many dooks to your furkids and hope that you all have a healthy and happy, vet-free time in 2011 What an exciting week for my fabulous five &#8230; they spent Thursday playing with Imogen, our eldest granddaughter who was here for the night, as well as hiding in the chest of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://all-about-ferrets.net/a-very-happy-new-year</link>
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		<title>Merry Christmas everyone :)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tweet Wishing all everyone and their ferrets (and dogs and cats, of course) a very MERRY CHRISTMAS and may 2011 be a really HAPPY NEW YEAR!! Hope the new year brings nothing but good things for you and your pets Hasn&#8217;t the weather gone totally crazy this month? I&#8217;ve been reading about the dreadful snow [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://all-about-ferrets.net/merry-christmas-everyone</link>
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		<title>Featured blogger</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tweet I was selected to be a featured blogger for Pet Blogs United and it was a joy to write about how ferrets first came into my life. It brought back so many memories of Mash, the fun we had together and the things she taught me about their wonderfully quirky habits. I got quite [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://all-about-ferrets.net/featured-blogger</link>
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		<title>Ice skating otters</title>
		<description><![CDATA[TweetThere are some adorable photos of a mother otter and her 3 pups &#8220;skating&#8221; on a lake in Somerset, in the UK, in this Daily Mail article. Mama Otter found where the ice was the thinnest, made a small hole and went fishing. Must have been a cold experience &#8211; thank goodness they have such [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://all-about-ferrets.net/ice-skating-otters</link>
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