Post by jojodancer on Apr 28, 2008 12:29:33 GMT -5
Hello from Chicago!
My husband and I have owned ferrets for about 2.5 years. Our first two ferrets were from PetCo, and since then we've adopted or fostered from the local shelter, the GCFA.
Right now there are 6 of these rambunxious little guys running around our home.
* Bear: 2.5 year old sable male. Loves to kiss and be held. (PetCo)
* Posh: 2.5 hear old silver mitt female. Nippy and our alpha girl - if she ain't happy, no one is happy! (PetCo)
* Sam-I-Am: 5.5 year old sable male. We are watching his blood glucose level, it's testing as 64 for the last few months. But he is still the first one up in the morning, and the first one running around ready to play.
* Sadie: 2 year old tiny silver female. Hubby and I think she is so small because she was rarely taken out of her cage by her previous owners. We're happy because after 2 months, she's learning good potty habits!
* Mr Lynx: 8.5 year old male DEW. He was dropped off at the shelter because his owner developed asthma. Mr Lynx is blind and has a chordoma on his tail, but it doesn't slow him down.
* Morris: 5.5 year old male sable. Been at the shelter since September 2005, and has lost his cagemates to cancer while waiting for his forever home. We couldn't leave him there! Morris has adrenal cancer and bad teeth and gums.
In loving memory: Casey. Casey passed away at 5.5 years old from insulinoma. We had him for one wonderful year, before we had to help him cross the rainbow bridge. Through him, we started adding raw food to all our ferrets diets.
Our ferrets eat a gruel made of ground up whole chicken and Pingford's Porridge twice a day, and have kibble (EVO and Natural Gold) available to them 24 hours a day. We're starting to add different meats to the gruel, in hopes that it will add some variety. We don't have blenders or anything, so our soups are really simple, and therefore called gruel.
We have a holistic vet in the western suburbs. We like him and his partners. Actually, we found him by accident; our former vet moved to this office. We followed her and now we see either her or him, depending on the time of our appt. They support natural diets, and used to sell amore pet foods on site before shipping meat across the border was forbidden. Also, we had Casey on special herbal blends to sooth his liver during the last months of his insulinoma.
We expect to bring Mr Lynx in for accupuncture/pressure and/or chiropractic help, as he is old, and it seems his joints don't move as well anymore.
My husband and I have owned ferrets for about 2.5 years. Our first two ferrets were from PetCo, and since then we've adopted or fostered from the local shelter, the GCFA.
Right now there are 6 of these rambunxious little guys running around our home.
* Bear: 2.5 year old sable male. Loves to kiss and be held. (PetCo)
* Posh: 2.5 hear old silver mitt female. Nippy and our alpha girl - if she ain't happy, no one is happy! (PetCo)
* Sam-I-Am: 5.5 year old sable male. We are watching his blood glucose level, it's testing as 64 for the last few months. But he is still the first one up in the morning, and the first one running around ready to play.
* Sadie: 2 year old tiny silver female. Hubby and I think she is so small because she was rarely taken out of her cage by her previous owners. We're happy because after 2 months, she's learning good potty habits!
* Mr Lynx: 8.5 year old male DEW. He was dropped off at the shelter because his owner developed asthma. Mr Lynx is blind and has a chordoma on his tail, but it doesn't slow him down.
* Morris: 5.5 year old male sable. Been at the shelter since September 2005, and has lost his cagemates to cancer while waiting for his forever home. We couldn't leave him there! Morris has adrenal cancer and bad teeth and gums.
In loving memory: Casey. Casey passed away at 5.5 years old from insulinoma. We had him for one wonderful year, before we had to help him cross the rainbow bridge. Through him, we started adding raw food to all our ferrets diets.
Our ferrets eat a gruel made of ground up whole chicken and Pingford's Porridge twice a day, and have kibble (EVO and Natural Gold) available to them 24 hours a day. We're starting to add different meats to the gruel, in hopes that it will add some variety. We don't have blenders or anything, so our soups are really simple, and therefore called gruel.
We have a holistic vet in the western suburbs. We like him and his partners. Actually, we found him by accident; our former vet moved to this office. We followed her and now we see either her or him, depending on the time of our appt. They support natural diets, and used to sell amore pet foods on site before shipping meat across the border was forbidden. Also, we had Casey on special herbal blends to sooth his liver during the last months of his insulinoma.
We expect to bring Mr Lynx in for accupuncture/pressure and/or chiropractic help, as he is old, and it seems his joints don't move as well anymore.
