Some of you might remember that I made a dig box for my guys a few years ago which was a mega fail. I’d got a bag of aquarium gravel and filled one of our grandkids’ toy boxes with it. I honestly thought that the ferrets would love it, as they were always scratching around inside the furniture.

Well … they jumped into the box, they had a teensy scrabble around and that was that. No more interest at all I left the box there for a couple of days and finally admitted defeat.

A few weeks ago I saw a cute video of ferrets playing in a box with biodegradable packing peanuts so I thought I’d give the dig box another go!

Found a huge bag of bio packing peanuts on eBay and ordered it. It came the same day I was heading off to hospital to get my knee fixed, December 6, so while I was away, my long-suffering husband poured some of the peanuts into a big box and took a video of the result …

Spook, my BEW, looks like he was woken up while sleeping in the peanuts and while the others hopped in and out, they certainly don’t look like they’re having much fun with that box!

The carnage at the end of the video was of the ferrets showing their displeasure of me not being there! Apparently for 3 days in a row, when Philip came home, he found all the books in the bottom shelf of our bookcase on the floor. He’d patiently put them all back and the next day found them tossed out again. After the 3rd day he got fed up with it so once he put all the books back, he banged a wedge into the books so that the ferrets couldn’t get them out again.

The day after that, he came home and found that the ferrets had emptied all the books on the bottom shelf of my cookbook bookcase in the kitchen! LOL!

Anyway, back to the dig box … when I came home on Sunday, I was hoping to see some interest in it but there wasn’t any until yesterday.

Yesterday was when Mojo came up with a new game in the dig box. She’d jump in, grab a peanut, scramble out and stash the peanut in a corner. She did that about 4-5 times until Kimiko came along. They touched noses and I assume they had a telepathic conversation whereby Mojo told Kimiko what she was doing so Kimiko jumped into the box and helped Mojo remove the peanuts one-by-one and stash them in the same corner Why didn’t I have my camera with me … it was so funny to watch them!!

It wasn’t long before they got bored with the game and toodled off and then it was Dash’s turn to invent a new game…

Stand up on the outside of the dig box, pull hard with both paws and tip the box over. Get in when the box is on its side and scrabble about as much as you can to make sure more peanuts are flung out of the box onto the floor.

When your mother comes along with the dustpan and brush, call in the reserves and make sure you all do everything you can to hinder her from sweeping up the peanuts!! *rolls eyes*

Ferrets having fun … who could ask for more?

No, it’s not a trick question I seriously wonder if they do!

My Mojo has totally broken the mould I had for albino ferrets. I always considered them to be wonderfully smoochy, loving little things, then along came Mojo!

I’ve never known a ferret to be such a Jekyll and Hyde She’ll cover my face with kisses some days and play with me like I’m her best buddy. Then, in a matter of moments, she’ll change. If I pick her up to get her to kiss me again, she’ll turn her face away and that’ll be that. No more kisses from the little madam.

Other times we’ve had fun playing then I come to the sitting room and flop in my chair to watch TV or use the laptop, she’ll come to me, jump up and sink her teeth into my inner elbow then run away.

What’s with the attitude, I wonder?

Like I tell people, “The more I know ferrets, the more I know I don’t know!”

Sounds like a statement Donald Rumsfeld would make, doesn’t it, but boy, does it apply to Mojo

However, back to my albino girl.

I wrote about my concern that she might have adrenal disease last month. After noticing that hair was missing from the underside of her tail, I then noticed that she was losing hair on her belly …

It reminded me of how Seamus’ tail looked last year and, as the ultrasound and biopsy didn’t find anything to worry about for him, I decided to not take Mojo to my vet and see how she went.

She still has about an inch of no hair on the underside of her tail but I’m relieved to see that the fur on her stomach has grown back, so it can’t be anything connected to her adrenal glands.

I guess it could be seasonal and – who knows – maybe she’s moody because she’s annoyed about what her hair looks like LOL!

Back in May I came across this soap made by the Goat Mountain Soap Company and couldn’t resist ordering it!

The order was mailed on May 24 but, as it happened, the Canadian postal service went on strike at or around the time my order was dispatched so it took a while to get down under.

I was beginning to fret about when I might get the bars of soap but then … lo and behold … today the mailman left the packet on my doorstep

It’s such an unusual present so I’m really looking forward to giving a bar to each of my ferret friends. I’m sure they’ll love it

Mind you, one thing I do have to ask the company is why they picked that particular name for the soap … Ferret Farts? One thing I can say with my hand across my heart is that in 17 years of being owned by a ferret, I have never heard one of mine fart! LOL!

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!

So when Dash decided to check out the kitchen this morning, I had the camera handy so was able to take a few photos of him tap dancing on the hotplate and snooping in the sink.

NOTE … this is a TOY kitchen. Do NOT try to put your ferret on a real hotplate or in a proper sink at home

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!