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Post by katt on Nov 22, 2010 1:05:59 GMT -5
I'm voting on a second "demonchild" Gee! THANKS! ...Not! I want a nice mellow little girl to balance Koda out. But knowing my luck, you would be the winner of that bet! And yeah, the mold is bad...very bad. I won't even clean it anymore, because I am terrified that it might be toxic black mold in which case cleaning it will send the spores into the air for me (and the critters) to inhale... normal mold would be bad enough, but I don't dare risk it being black mold. And so it grows. My walls condensate in the winter. We are looking to move as soon as we can possibly find a place!
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Post by Heather on Nov 22, 2010 2:00:33 GMT -5
I'm voting on a second "demonchild" Gee! THANKS! ...Not! I want a nice mellow little girl to balance Koda out. But knowing my luck, you would be the winner of that bet! I"m sorry, but I've seen it happen so often I've done it myself. I put Captain Jack in with Fun-Go Squiggly. Captain Jack was such a sweet, stuffed toy that I felt that surely some of his mellow attitude would rub off on Squiggly. Captain Jack is now a furry little hellion who plays rough with the best of them and is now a notorious climber and knows how to open doors, climb up onto tables. I put Yuri in with Napoleon....now Yuri knows how to open doors, climb just about anything, gets into drawers, loves routing through the trash, dumping the recycle.....Ferrets will be ferrets and real ferrets will teach calm ferrets to be real ferrets . ciao
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Post by shilohismygirl on Nov 22, 2010 9:32:20 GMT -5
So far, I haven't met many lady ferrets that weren't trouble makers. I know they exist, but they're not where I've been looking. My Shiloh is the troublemaker. You'd think the boys would be. No way! They're little angels compared to miss Shiloh. She gets determined, and be darned if I stand in her way. When the other ferrets do something to get scruffed, they all go and do something else; when Shiloh gets scruffed, she goes back to doing whatever she was doing with more perseverance and fervor than could be imagined.
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Post by Heather on Nov 22, 2010 11:32:44 GMT -5
I will second that. I won't say the girls will go out of their way to be bad but when they do they do it with determination and vigor . I was laughing at my little Pooka. She's 10 yrs young, has advanced adrenal but still finds the time to chase the dog (and when she's in a mood she will do this no matter how many times out she gets, she just keeps going after him), climbs some of the vertical tubes that are set up in the ferret room to get into the loftier sleep boxes. Now I"ve got boys who just can't be bothered, these tubes go vertically straight up for about 4 ft before they level off, I was going to change them when I got some of the extra pieces attached. In fact I set these up in this manner so that the ferrets wouldn't use them until I got everything finished. A lot of good that did My little girls showed the boys how to shinny up the tube. ciao
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Post by lessthansign3 on Nov 22, 2010 19:38:49 GMT -5
I would report it as well. But it sounds like you have a nice place to move to now! And I know EXACTLY what you mean about moving in Jan in the cold! haha I am hoping to find a place With a garage! Yeah right! The sad thing is that I loove my current apartment, but there are a few..issues. The landlady is awesome. I really love her a lot. She really watches out for everyone and is fun to chat with. Which of course just makes me feel kind of guilty for sneaking Koda in. :S But yeah, even though it is a No Pets apartment, she has been very kind to stretch the rules and allow us to have our reptiles, hamster, and breeder mice ("for the snakes"). She does not know about my roommate's chinchilla or Koda. The problem is that the chin and Koda are "illegal" there, we have serious mold problems, and being on the top floor apartment means that I can't really use my treadmill as much as I would like to. Also, a little more space, just a little (esp in the kitchen, and for storage!) would make a huuge difference. The mold and no-furred-pets are the biggest issues though. We have low rent, mostly quiet neighbors...but I need to get away from the mold and Koda needs a girlfriend! Yeah, we're going to contact one of the tenant advocacy groups here after we move out. Not gonna risk it before hand though, because we want our deposits back Hehehe. But yeah, we didn't really want to move, either... We've got a nice corner apartment on a quiet street in front of a dog park. We're right off of the parkway that goes along the Mississippi, which can be really nice. Well, it can also be a little annoying - the Mississippi is so polluted that it smells like CRAP some days lol. We've also got nice neighbors, from the retired cancer researcher next door to the elderly couple on 4th floor who would accept packages for us when we weren't home (or when our buzzer wasn't working, which has been most of the time). Oh, and again, the parking! I had to park outside overnight, since I had a Ferret Nation I picked up on Craigslist sitting in my parking spot downstairs waiting to be assembled (not for the ferrets, though - for the chins). This afternoon, of course, with my car was coated in a healthy layer of ice, I had to scrape the windows on my car, and I'd forgotten how annoying that can be Don't feel too bad about sneaking critters in, though... Admittedly, we actually have three cats when we're only supposed to have two. I justify this by saying that one of them isn't so much as cat as a rug I guess it doesn't bother me too much as long as I am sure that my pets aren't destroying anything. I know landlords are afraid of pets because they get burned by the irresponsible folks who let their pets tear things apart and then they leave the mess when they move out. When Ross's bunny dug multiple holes in the carpet of our old place (she escaped while we were on vacation - when we got home, we bought her a metal dog crate. No more escapes!), we called and told our landlord right away what had happened. We explained that we were on vacation and discovered it when we returned, that we had remedied the situation by buying a new cage so it would not happen again, and we told him we would pay for new carpet when we moved out. As for the mold, hmm... Is it maybe a humidity issue? Strange...
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Post by katt on Nov 22, 2010 22:17:04 GMT -5
WEll yes and no. Noit really a humidity issue as it is suuuper dry here, especially in the winter. The building is ancient though. Anyways, in the winter, for some reason the temperature difference causes my back wall to condensate, so it is constantly wet - even though the air is very dry. Thus, the mold is wet and happy. And it sounds like maybe I do want that little boy at the pet store after all! haha I don't know if I want 2 hellions. Hopefully when Koda hits 2 years he will calm down a bit. ...! Yeah. Right. I was thinking though that a girl would be good because, with all of that high strung, girly energy, she could match Koda's endless energy and they would *in theory* tire each other out and prevent each other from being destructive. Koda's energy is one thing, his destructiveness is the real problem. He chews cords and digs holes in carpets and eats everything. The more bored he is, the more he does it. Soo...I hope that a girl can romp him silly and he will be too engaged in ferret games to destroy and eat things...
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