My spoiled brat!

[Rakshasi]

Anyone else have a ferret?

I've had my girl since October 2004. I adopted her from our local animal control facility. She lives the life of a queen, and is more spoiled now than ever before. She is going to be 6 years old in June, so she's really getting special treatment. I'm so lucky to have her in my life!! She's so spoiled, she even has her own journal! (it's over here)

Meet Bella...my spoiled little fuzzbutt. She's nuts.
(i hope i resized these pictures right. sorry in advance if i didn't, but i'm pretty sure they're resized.)
She was trying to get the computer working, and my boyfriend and I interrupted her.


Poor girl...my boyfriend was trying to steal the purse from her, and she had to waste her energy yelling at him.


"Hm...this box is ideal for sleeping. Leave me alone."


Oh, and notice the discoloration in the first picture to the viewer's right, above Bella's little arm? That's just a patch of pure ITCH. I've been keeping it clean, however, and it is lightening up well. Any other suggestions are welcome, but we were told to just keep it clean to avoid infection. We're open to any other advice. It's nothing more than just an itchy patch. Confusing.

[frankykeno]

She's too cute, Raven. You could add some hilarious captions to those pics. What a joy she must be to you.

[Blu Mongoose]

Love the pics!!

[Monty]

yea my carpet shark is a spoiled lil brat too but shes the cutest thing ever she follows me around like a puppy comes when i say her name or whistles i adopted her from my petco someone had dropped her off outside in a cage in the winter i dont know her history or anything but since i had her shes come a long way from nasty biter to sweet lover

[Monty]

sorry didnt feel like editing

good pics by the way and that cute shes got her own website well have fun and have a good day

[Sunny1]

I absolutely love ferrets, although my husband doesn't and has absolutely put his foot down on my getting one. (He spoils all my fun sometimes. But at least he tolerates my snakes so I guess I'll give him that one.) Her pics are too cute!!! I especially love the one where she is sleeping in the tissue box!!

[PigsnPythons]

ooooh! She is precious! I have two ferrets and love them too death. Sunny1 my boyfriend didn't want me to get mine either, but now he calls them his babies and wants us to get two more!

[Rakshasi]

Huge thank you to everyone!
Now I get to feed her desire to be a queen even more, by telling her what good pictures she takes. She looooves compliments.

Jo ~ The pics are definitely worthy of some funny captions. I'm not that great at coming up with good ones, though. And, you're absolutely right. She is a total joy to me. I adore her. Sometimes I just pick her up to carry her around the house, out to check the mail, anywhere just so that she's with me. I guess I'm a bit over-attached.

Pamela ~ When I first began my search for a ferret in 2003, my grandparents hated the idea. I heard everything from, "They stink, they bite, they're ugly...." to some really weird things like, "They'll get out and kill your rats." They wouldn't allow a ferret in the house, no way, nope. Then I gathered a bunch of information, and just called some shelters in search of one. I found one about an hour away from us, and I made my grandfather speak to the lady at the shelter. He agreed I could get that ferret after reading the info and talking to the lady.

Although that ferret (Ben) was estimated to be only five years old, the vet confirmed my biggest fear...he was nine, and that was only an estimate!! I could tell he was rather old. He was very slow, and preferred to just zone out in my lap. He only graced my life for a small handful of months. Towards the end, he was sleeping in bed with me to stay warm, getting antibiotics and I was making him home-cooked meals every day.

That's how ferrets, um, "weaseled" their way into our hearts. I was without one for a year, though. I just needed to take time off from the little fuzzbutts after all Ben and I went through in the short time he was with me.

Ferrets are great. They need a ton of attention, and do require a rather pricy diet, but they're fantastic for someone like me. I work from home (most of the time, i do have a paper route, as well, only 2 hours a night), so my Bella gets to be out for many hours at a time. She's like a little tv comedy show when she gets going.