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TweetI am still reeling in shock at how quickly his illness progressed and how it took only 3 full days from getting a red flag alert to burying him As some of you might now, Angus had adrenal gland disease (AGD) and had a Suprelorin implant inserted into him a year ago. He was doing [...]

TweetWell there’s no stopping Alison Parker!  After completing “Jake & Jasper, A Ferret Tale”, she is now embarking on another movie called “The Ferret Squad”. The story is about a teenage boy, again played by Connor Stanhope, who’s moving to California with ...

TweetFor those of us living in the Antipodes, summer is well and truly among us and especially here, in Western Oz, it’s hot hot hot. I know many ferret owners know the dangers of ferrets and heatstroke but for some of you newbies out there, please be careful if you have ferrets and they live ...

Tweet I hope you (and your ferrets, of course!) all had a wonderful Christmas and I really do hope that this coming year will bring only happiness, peace, prosperity and good health to everyone. I must say that reading the news makes me want to climb into bed and throw the covers over my head [...]

Tweet Here’s wishing you all a wonderful Christmas and I hope that 2012 will be a very happy and healthy year for you and all your ferrets. As always, I would just remind you to please be careful during the Yuletide celebrations and watch out for your ferrets so that they don’t get into ...

Tweet Hrmmmm, let me contemplate that question for a moment! Yes, I think it’s the fault of the owners who have grown too complacent about their ferrets! LOL! I heard a noise in the kitchen earlier this morning and when I clumped (I’m on 2 crutches after my knee operation) to the doorway...

TweetSome 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 [...]

TweetNo, 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 She̵...

TweetA ferret friend sent me a link to an article in Pet Wiki about new advances in dog cancer, pointing me to the paragraph written by Dr Ananya Mandal in June 2010, which said … “Queensland, Australia scientists have discovered a drug to cure cancer that has effectively worked in anima...

TweetI was looking at Mojo the other day and realised her tail looked like it was losing hair just at the base. Can you see what I mean here … Her fur looks just a little bit less at the very top of her tail compared with half in inch below. My heart sank. Having [...]