I’m very happy to say that two ferrets named Felkica (Spotty) and Slapica (Slipper) have been making the rounds in Zagreb and have been educating the public about the pleasures of ferret ownership :-)

(photo by Bruno Pavuša)

I confess to being a bit nonplussed about why the ferrets were thought to be “African skunks” initially but then it was corrected to “Asian ferret”.  However when I checked on my “Ferret in Other Languages” site, I saw that the Croatian word for ferret was “tvor”, and when I checked with the Croatian-English dictionary, tvor did, in fact, mean ‘skunk’, as well as ‘polecat’ and ‘fitchew’.

I then did a reverse check on words, putting “ferret” into the box and translating it into Croatian.  The word that came out was “omčica” … so maybe I got it wrong when I put tvor down.

I must say that I think it’s great to find out all these things to do with my favourite pet … it really helps to stimulate my brain and at my advanced age, that is something I really need ;-)

So, time for me to go and give my four “omčicas” (I couldn’t find the plural so that surely is the wrong word!) a big hug from their old mama!

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