That doesn't work for me, I am a crying drunk and feel lousy all the next day.  Cheer up

I am working on it. My critters are helping out too. Taz (the white ferret) has been very lovey-dovey today. Following me around and wanting me to pet and pay attention to him. He keeps walking around licking my fingers and toes. ( I know that sounds wierd but it is really kinda cute )

  I guess it all starts out as water, in some form or another.  Heck if you drink enough it all tastes like water after a while!

  It didn't work for me eaither!

  I wanna go home and cuddle with my critters!

Isn't is amamzing how they seem to know and do the cuteist things to try to help?

  It really is amazing~  Don't know what I'd do with out them!

Tazzy did the same thing when Jinxy (girly girl) died. He stuck around me like glue for a couple of days. He is my buddy.

HH- have you ever had baby farrets?  Like raised your own litter?

Nope. You have to get un-altered ferrits from a breeder and there are not too many around here. You also have to keep the females bred or they will die.

What is a un-altered ferrit?  So once a ferrit is Prego she has to stay that way FOREVER?   Poor girl!

Well you all are not going to believe this but, here in Shelby County they have been seeing a lot of wild ferrets?  Some one must have turned a bunch of them loose at one point and they are making a come back in the wilds of the county  :rotf:

It must be some sort of ferret gelding! lol

Really? Wow. According to all the reasearch I found on them, the only true wild ferret in the U.S. is the black footed ferret out in the west. They live around praire dog colonies since that is their main source of food. Most ferrets that get turned loose don't survive since the can not tolerate extremly cold weather and they get over heated pretty fast. They also have pretty bad eyesight and tend to become easy prey for things like hawks and coyotes The do however, have a great sence of smell and thier skin is thicker then cows hide. Boy I hope these farrel ferrets don't get around chicken breeders or people who breed rabbits. And yes, once a female becomes old enough to breed then you must keep breeding them. I can not remember what the issue is but it has some thing to do with their heat cycles. Something to do with the estrogin production messes them up and will eventually kill them. They only come into heat (I think) twice a year. I did alot of research when I got Tazzy (my first one) so that I would know what I was dealing with. Around here a ferret is going to cost you about 120 bucks. Out of the four I had (three now ) I only boght one. Nobody wanted him( he was the last one left and he was in the bad ferret cage since he kept getting out) so they marked him down to almost half price and that was before the price went up on them. I only paid something like 40 dollars for him. Everybody else kept giving me the ones they did not want. They make great pets but you have to know how to care for them and you have to understand thier habits. They are not good pets for kids since the young ones have to learn how to play with us thin skined creatures. Alot of people mistake their "weasel war dance" for aggresion and think they are trying to attack when all they are doing is asking you to play.

They think someone turned a bunch of them loose and they are breeding and populating.  They have spotted them in one general area of the county and they have been spotted by more than one person.  A family actually caught one in a live animal trap that was set for racoons.  They thought they had a weasel until they took them to the animal shelter to see what they had.  I wonder how they have been surviving.  They said these are all quite wild and not pets.   

I suppose if they were un-altered (still able to breed) ferrets then they could turn back wild. They are pretty brave and not afraid of much. (mine think they are badgers ) The will reek havoc on any rabbit breeders or chicken farmers if they find them. You won't have to worry too much about rodents though. They will also take care of most snakes too. In you case Val, maybe not such a bad thing hu?
Some one did that with razorback hogs down here. Turned a bunch loose in the stripper pit areas down here. The folks who live in those areas are going nuts because of them. They are not afraid of much and have been known to kill peoples dogs and tear into farmers crops. They are some mean critters. The locals in the area have been told to shoot them on sight. Don't worry about trying to trap them or calling DNR or animal controle, just shoot them and then call someone.

They did a study on feral hogs and they are a problem world wide.  It doesn't take any time at all for hogs to go back to the wild and survive.  They are mean, in the pioneer days they turned them loose and rounded them up when they felt like eating pork.  They are rather gamey to eat and they can get huge and like all pigs they love to root.