This makes me FURIOUS! Utterly and absolutely FURIOUS!

I was looking at my ferret FB page when I saw a post from an English ferret owner saying …

“This was one of three kits that Cathy Wareing has rescued from a shop called Brunos in Billing Northampton. They were charging £39.95 each. Clearly two of these kits are too young to be away from their mother. The third kit is slightly older. They were in a small cage with no bedding, just a cardboard tube and kibble that was too big from them to eat.”

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.

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.

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.