Say hello to Angus, my albino ferret!
We collected him on Sunday – all 390 grams of him. Isn’t he just the sweetest little fellow?
When the others saw him, they scattered and were absolutely not impressed. I was surprised that none of the girls showed any motherly interest in taking care of him, as he’s only just 7 weeks old and hardly a threat to any of them.
I thought Milo would be a nice big brother to Angus and supervised them as they played on the bed. Milo seemed to be fine with him, and if it looked like he’d try to nip him I’d say, “No!” and he backed off.
Because of that I made the fatal mistake of putting Angus down on the floor in the kitchen and Milo pounced!!
The little sod grabbed Angus and ran around the house with him clamped firmly in his mouth, with me shouting and chasing after them both. I was livid!
I finally caught him and rescued Angus, who was making the little kit scared sound of “hrrrk hrrrk”. Poor little man. But apart from a small mark near his eye, there didn’t seem to be any damage.
AND … I also had a visit from Dianne, the president of WAFFS yesterday.
She brought a cage with one of her females and her litter and guess what …. there is one silvermitt boy there!!!! Dianne said she’d give me first refusal but what is there to refuse? I’ve been lusting after a silvermitt boy for quite a while now and they seem to be as rare as hen’s teeth so now I have one! Hurray!!!
He’s only 5 weeks old so will be with his mommy for a while but once he comes here, I will introduce him to the world as well! How wonderful is that – seems like all my Christmases have come at once 
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New visitor; really like the blog, kep it up! (Owned by 3 wild weasels)
Congrats!! Angus is too cute! Have fun with him and please post more pics so we can watch him grow up!
I had no idea they were nuts but I stumbled across a video about a silver mitt. He was a mad hatter also. Well make it four ferrets. I’ve decided to adopt Hanuman (formerly known as Jack) cagemate Jill. I pick her up late this afternoon.
Hugs to all your fuzzies as well.
Thanks so much for your kind words about my site – much appreciated
Isn’t it funny to think that silvermitts are scatty ferrets! I wonder why. I know you can have crazy ferrets of all colors – my Kaos, who’s a DEW, was absolutely idiotic when we first got her, hence the name!
She’s calmed down a lot now and is the matriarch of the group, being the oldest one there.
I had the biggest laugh this morning because Angus was trying to do his version of the weasel wardance!! He jumped from one side to the other and being so small, was absolutely uncoordinated and it looked so incredibly silly but so cute!
I think the girls are beginning to accept him as they don’t scatter in horror when they see him now but I still worry about leaving him on his own with that lot. Therefore I have him in a bag hanging around my neck so we do the gardening, or hang up the washing, together!! Kills my neck but Angus is happy!
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Hugs to Ganesh and Hanuman from their friends down under.
I figured you already knew that. Your website is extremely informative. It’s one of the first I stumbled onto when I decided it was high time that I adopted a ferret.
I guess he thought you had brought him a “live toy”.
Hanuman is definitely a mad hatter. I’ve been calling him “Hyper Hanuman” and “Barking Mad Hanuman”. I got the inital meeting out the way early and all seems fine after reading your post I thought I was being overly paranoid and decided to do the introducions.
There was one minor squabble between Hanuman and Ganesh (sable male) but Ganesh put him in his place. Hanuman just wanted to play and I believe Ganesh sensed that.
Yes, I know that some larger ferrets can drag kits around but you should have seen Milo. He just clamped his teeth around Angus’ head and took off, galloping around the house as if Angus was a toy in his mouth!
I wonder if he would have “stashed” Angus in the wardrobe if I hadn’t grabbed him to rescue the poor little fellow!
Thanks for saying he’s gorgeous … I confess I find him utterly squeezable
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Lovely to hear that you have a silvermitt boy now. As I’ve only had girls ever, I’d be really interested to know if your silvermitt is as mad as my girls are/have been or if the “crazy-as-a-mad-hatter” gene is only in the girls
Whoops forgot to add he is gorgeous.
It sure does sound like your Christmas is coming early! How fabulous!
In Kim Schilling’s book, Ferret for Dummies, she mentions that sometimes older ferrets will drag a kit around like he is a chew toy. Poor babies. I’m glad your kit is ok.
What a coincidence. I brought home a 17 week old silver mitt this afternoon from my local ferret shelter. He’s heavy. He’s already the size of Ganesh (sable.) who is about 1.5 years old.