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.  Dr Matti Kiupel was doing a lot of research in a number of ferret illnesses, like coronaviruses, rotaviruses & coccidiosis. He’s also working with David Wilson researching the prognostication and carcinogenesis of adrenal cortical neoplasms. But, of course, with all things, money is necessary to further the research for these diseases so the department also has a page for donations.

Life 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 things so that when they came around, we’d pretend to cook or to shop.

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.