We had two of the grandkids over last weekend so brought out the IKEA kitchen, together with the supermarket store and other toys we had. As we are having another kidlet over this weekend, we left the kitchen in the sitting room.

When we let the ferrets out last Sunday, they were fascinated with the kitchen and were all sniffing around. In fact, one of the bottom doors was opened and Angus went inside to investigate and Kimiko managed to shut the door on him. It was so funny to see him peering out through that glass door and, of course, the video or the still cameras weren’t close by to catch the event!

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.

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.