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.

No doubt you all have seen the story in yesterday’s English newspaper, the Telegraph, saying that it was “insulting to call our animals, ‘pets’” and we should, instead, refer to them as ‘companion animals’!

I had to laugh.

Why would anyone want to put such time and effort into such a frivolous study, pray tell?

I mean, I guess it’s great that the director of the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics has given such deep thought about how insulting it is for our animals to be referred to as pets; and how wild animals get quite upset about being termed as “wildlife” instead of “free living”. Gosh!! Maybe that’s why lions and hippos try to eat us when they come across us in the veld because they know all about our insulting terminology!

Who’d have thought!!

I bought this blue tub on wheels a few months ago to bring my shopping in from the garage into the house.
A not-so-expensive buy from our local Bunnings store.

The ferrets used to jump and and out of the tub but that was it, until recently. When I came home from shopping one day, all the youngsters were at the front door to greet me and, to distract them from racing outside, I put the plastic bags down on the floor in the hallway and went to the kitchen. When I came back to pick the parcels up, the ferrets were all jazzed up from the crackling noise from the bags so I took the items out of the bags and just dropped the empty bags on the kitchen floor.

I got sent this video from a friend of my sister’s who knows how batty I am about ferrets.

I’ve seen it before but it still amazes me that they were able to train the ferrets and the fox to stay so quietly on the lady before given the go-ahead to scatter

I bet whoever trains those ferrets has managed to get them all to poop in their litter tray, not to dig in couches and all the other things which I have been a total failure getting my guys to do, or rather NOT do, over the many years of ferret ownership!

I’ve dodged this bullet for SEVENTEEN years!  Imagine that!

Well – actually that’s not entirely true, as Muis my albino girl who developed insulinoma got it at the end of her life but the AGD was as a result of her insulinoma.

You might have read my post about Seamus, when I thought he had AGD and took him for an ultrasound and biopsy, but – thankfully – both found that there was nothing wrong with his adrenal glands.