Rescued animal!

[retrofishie]

I have been wanting a ferret for awhile and looked around at the pet stores and for the ferret and accesories it the minimum was gonna be over $300!!!! so i called animal control and they are delivering a rescued ferret with everything tonight for free!!!!!! the lady said he's an older guy and she has never seen a ferret as nice as him EVER!!! she said he has never bitten anyone and he gets along with cats and dogs (i already have 3 cats)


I'm so excited, and i feel good for being able to rescue him!!!!!

now i need names...

[themnax]

awwwe, that is so cool. we always used to have pets when i was growing up. actualy semi-ferral cats mostly. that adopted us. the only time we ever bought a creature at a pet store was one time we had some fish. we picked out the ones that had pretty colors. put them all in the same tank. in about two months they had just about all eaten each other. we did not do this again.

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well when i was growing up there was no extra charge on your rent to have stray creatures adopting you and running arround. ever since i've been out on my own i've had to rent. and every place i've lived on my own either didn't allow pets or charged some rediculous amount to allow them and still severly restricted the kind and number.
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as for naming your little guy, there is a story i just read that had a creature in it named rheii or something like that. which is like the sounds that it made. (no it wasn't a ferret, it was kind of like a living and agile blue glass fox/cat. one of alice smith's stories on elfwood)

[cerridwen]

I think the blind ferret in Along Came Polly is too cute... I like his green sweater!

[retrofishie]

I named him Elvis

[~Sam~]

Hey Retro! Elvis looks Soooooo sweet! Ferrets are great talkers. It tickles me when you don't understand what they're trying to tell you and they come up with the most clever of ways to let you know just what they want. My girlfriend's children had a couple of ferrets who took over her house... they were into everything they could get their little paws on.

They're cute and very smart. I wish you all the luck with your new found friend. You be sure to let me know how things are going between you, OK?

Sam

[Fractual_]

your so lucky!!!


is there rescue things like that everywehre that give away animals?

[retrofishie]

yeah, there are animal shelters in every city, but some places charge money (so they can afford to keep taking on new animals and feeding them and giving them medical attention)

if you are looking to adopt look in the yellow pages under pet shelters, animal hospitals, vets, etc... even if they don't have the animal that you want they may know someone that wants to get rid of theirs or they may keep your number for when they do have an animal for you.

[mimosa]

www.petfinder.com (http://www.petfinder.com)


Many many animals all over in need of a loving home. check it out.

[grendel 44]

When I was a kid in England the man next door used to keep ferrets for hunting rabbits. I never thought they could be pets, his were nasty and mean and took the end of his finger off once. This was soon after WW11 and meat was a bit scarce, so we ate a lot of rabbit until the government in australia introduced a disease called mixamatosis to cut down it's rabbit population. I guess that put ferrets out of the hunting business. Thanks for bringing it to my attention that they can be good pets, I love animals, being a city person am limited to cats and dogs (there are coyotes in the hills, but you don't see much of them).

[retrofishie]

That;s weird that people were hungry and they dieseased the only meat supply! why would they do that? was there some logic or pure vengance?

I knew that ferrets can be used for hunting, they have huge teeth!!! but i've never seen a mean one. ferrets have to be trained not to bite. i was lucky, elvis doesn't bite, never has as far as i know, but when he is really happy he give little love nibbles, at first i thought he was trying to bite so i pulled my finger away but he kinda chased after it with his mouth slightly open and a weird look on his face, so one day i left it there to see what he would do and he just put his mouth over my finger, looked up at me with happy eyes and then turned his head and left. he mostly does it after i save him from the kitty that thinks he is a toy. i feel so sorry for him, my kitten suki, loves to play and she doesn't realize that she is soo much bigger than he is. she pounces on his back, wraps her arms around his neck, flips him over so they are both on their sides bellies facing eachother, then she started kicking him in the stomach with her hind legs!!! lol, it's kinda comical, but the poor little guy can't get away and he won't bite or scratch her cuz he know's better, so i always stop them.
I bought elvis a harness yesterday and took him down to the pharmacy when i had to get laundry change, they all fell in love with him and told me to bring him back everytime i go there. then i let him play in the grass and old tree roots in the back of out building and he had soo much fun, he was so happy!!!!

[grendel 44]

Hi Retrofishie, Good point, why did they poison the meat? That whole deal has stuck in my craw ever since it happened, I am not sure when, probably sometime in the 50s. What happened was that in Australia they had a plague of bunnies. I guess it was so bad that the rabbits were eating crops and grazing for other animals, that's how they justified this monstorous act anyway. So the government introduced this disease that affected rabbits, it made their heads swell and caused death. Swollen heads meant they couldn't get out of their warrens and they died in there. Sort of a bunny holocaust. The upshot of all this was that people in England got paranoid about eating rabbit meat. I am not sure if the disease ever got to England, but whatever, no more rabbit stew for us. Prior to this my mother used to make a pretty good stew with rabbit. Now I couldn't eat a bunny, I am not a vegetarian, but meat sorta grosses me out if I think about it too much.

There is way too much meat in the american diet anyway (in my humble opinion). Most cultures use meat in small amounts to compliment other items, for instance, Asian food. Of course now our culture has become low-carb crazy, meat is being consumed even more. I am, as you figured out, english and I was amazed at the amount of meat that was eaten here when I first came.