Ferrets are home!

So we didn't get the ferrets until a little after 8 pm. The lady that was allergic to them apparently couldn't bring them back until then. I hadn't asked what all the ferrets came with beforehand, the listing had just said it came with their cage, food, and all of their things.

All of their things was less things than I thought! They had a large cage, which will be fine though it's not fancy at all. We'll add things to it, we already got them a hammock. The cage had pine bedding, and they came with no more bedding than that. Pine bedding is bad so we wouldn't have wanted it anyway, but still. There was no more bedding. There was a little bit of food in a small bag that he said that he bought because he couldn't afford to buy them more than that. But... the ferrets were only supposed to have been gone a day. Shouldn't there have been more food left? I wonder this because the multi-coloured ferret seems really skinny. There were two water bottles, a small food bowl, two jingley bells... and that was it. No other toys, no levels in the cage, a small amount of bad bedding, a tiny amount of food, and two balls for toys. :/

Apparently I can't smell ammonia or I'm more stuffed up than I thought. Scottie could barely stay in their apartment because the ammonia smell was so strong. It was making him sick. I was like "This apartment smells kind of musty. OH LOOK FERRETS!" and thought no more of the smell. Which is weird. Can some people not smell ammonia? It's strange to me that it was so bad it was making Scottie sick and I hardly noticed. o_O

They were in this tiny apartment packed with stuff. There were two guys in there, a baby, 2 cats, a dog, and the 2 ferrets. When we got there they had the ferrets in a bucket, which they then moved to a box. Apparently this is the box that the woman took them back in. I held the box, playing whack a ferret, trying to keep them from wandering out of the box that they'd chewed holes in while the guy put the cage back together.

We took the little guys home and then rushed off to the pet store before they closed. We got them new toys, more food, appropriate bedding, a litter box and litter, harnesses, collars, treats, a hammock, ferretone(?), and other things.

We had a lot of fun playing with them! THEY ARE SO CUTE OMG. They are so laid back! It's amazing that they barely know us and are happy to just come play with us. Since it had gotten so late I didn't take pictures yet, but I'll do that tomorrow.

We've named them Chaos (the ferret from the Greywalker novels that we're reading), and Gwin (the ferret-like animal in the Inkheart trilogy). :D Gwin is the white one and is supposed to be mine. Chaos is the multi-colored one and is supposed to be Scottie's. Of course, that probably means that the ferrets will favor the opposite person, but it doesn't really matter. hehe

Worrying about Chaos

So Chaos is the little multi-coloured ferret. He's really skinny, especially compared to Gwin. I haven't seen him eat yet but he's drinking fine. (He seems really thirsty, actually). He's also active and playful, though not as active as Gwin but that could just be his personality. I know that ferrets are really picky about their food, it's possible that he just doesn't realize the food we have is what he should be eating. Gwin is totally fine with the food though. She even climbed in the bag this morning. Because the food in the bag is obviously better than the food we'd just put in the dish. lol So I would assume that they are both used to the same diet. Obviously I'd get him whatever food he wants, though I don't know what that would be. I could gradually wean him onto the diet that we'd want them on later.

I'm going to pick up some chicken baby food later and feed him that, just in case. It's possible that he just ate before we went to play with them this morning since there was food in the dish and they were awake. It's also possible that since he's so small compared to Gwin and his previous home was questionable in their ability to take care of them that he just wasn't getting enough to eat. I mean, they barely had any food for them and they said that they couldn't afford to buy them more food, who knows how long they'd tried to stretch what they had until someone took them out of there? They had been listing those ferrets for a relatively long time. It does worry me that I haven't seen him eat, but we'd only had him overnight so far so it's hard to say if that should be something to worry about yet.

Ferret pictures!

So I took pictures of the ferrets tonight! Chaos was sleeping for the first part of playtime, but eventually he did wake up. lol

They are in my scrapbook here on lj under the gallery Ferrets. :D I think this should be the link: http://pics.livejournal.com/invsagoth/gallery/0001ba7b?page=1


The pictures with the box of papers was something we'd thought up as a fun thing for them to play around in, a box of scrunchy papers. Scottie had seen some scrunchy toys at the pet store today and thought they might like them, but why buy them when you can just make scrunchy balls of paper? Gwin was a fan! :D

Edit: Meep, sorry for anyone that saw my linked picture first! I took it out, I hadn't realized it would be so enormous. lol