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.

I 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 ….

ta dah ….

Fffferret Ffffffarts Ssssoap!!!!!

What a brilliant present for us to give our family and friends, don’t you think? Quirky, silly and useful! Hey, what more could you ask for as a present

Now to find out if they ship their products to Oz!

Take a look …. don’t you think he’s looking a whole lot better?

This is the before shot, taken a couple of weeks ago …

and this photo was taken this morning …

As you can see, he’s lost that translucent skin but now he has a yellowish tinge to both his skin and his fur. I don’t know if that is due to the fact that his hair is growing back slowly or if it’s because of the DHA Omega I’m giving him.

These photos were taken on Monday, just over 2 weeks from when he got his suprelorlin implant.

I don’t know what I thought I would see after 2 weeks … I didn’t expect him to suddenly have lots of fluffy fur bursting forth out of his back but I suppose I was hoping that once the implant was put in, that it would halt the hair loss. Maybe it did but as I didn’t count every follicle before the implant and afterwards, I don’t know if it did anything