Alison, the producer of Jake & 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 will feel the same way.

I am fed up with the negative press ferrets get – the poor babies are always linked with being “vicious” and “smelly” and there are too few movies which show how wonderful they really are, and how much love, joy and comfort they give to their owners.

Well there you go …. the police have arrested the parents of that poor baby and now we learn that they weren’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’s stomach but there is NO mention of bits of fingers found in its stomach. I think that means that the ferret did not, in fact, chew the fingers off the baby and was totally and utterly unjustly accused of that.

At the beginning of this year I noticed that Seamus’ right eye was bulging slightly so we went to my vet for a check-up. The diagnosis was glaucoma There’s nothing that can be done for that and, as a blind ferret is not a handicapped ferret, it didn’t upset me too much to hear that he had it.

Chucky, my first male, developed cataracts when he was about 6 years old and it didn’t stop him from racing around the house. I guess if there was something on the floor which shouldn’t have been there he might have bumped into it but for the most part, he was pretty good at navigating around the house.

Little 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’d given the ferrets their smoothy and, as you might be aware, I’ve been adding just a small bit of coconut oil butter to their smoothy for a little bit of added oomph. The ferrets all love it and it’s totally benign so apart from making their poop smell like coconut (!), it doesn’t hurt them to eat it.

As you know, I’m giving both Angus and Seamus a daily dose each of DHA Omega and it’s obviously helping Seamus, since I can see how he’s perked up since I’ve been giving it to him. Angus has always been full of beans so I can’t state categorically that it’s helping him but I hope it is shrinking his adrenal tumours so that he’ll be with me for many more years!

Since then, I’ve been told about coconut oil being good for pets.