MY FEISTY FERRET FINIBEAU... WE CALL HIM BEAU FOR SHORT...

..and he knows warmth where warm is ... unlike his dufus brothers and sisters who took their garment for tube play ... not this one .. he was feeling cozy and posing...

First he checked out the merchandise .. yup the same hooded ferret sweatshirts as I got last year were on sale again at ferret.com and I stacked up on them as well as their x-mas gear ...


After determining he liked what he saw he allowed me to dress him...



and my reward was a big Finibeau kiss ... he is the only one romping around with his warm sweatshirt on and so not allowing the others to tug it off him ... the youngest and the toughest in the FurCircus ...


Yet the feisty teeny dwarf that won't grow a centimeter or gain an ounce curled up in my hands..
Chiquitita...

and then decided it was way to cool to snuggle up in my sweater ... all this happening while dufus DH is rummaging cleaning the kitchen upstairs where he made a mess after preparing a Mediterranean Seafood Medley for the family as we celebrate me on my 4 years 9 month surgiversary .. no dressing up .. my old fart arse worked at the shop all day long and I am T.I.R.E.D.

Putting these ferrets away .. jumping in the hot tub and checking the insides of my eyeballs out till the morrow!!!!
Chiquitita ... go seek your own warmth now LOL

LIFE LESSON FROM A DWARF FERRET... MY LITTLE CHIQUITITA

For someone who does not do weepy clingy well ... I mean I don't want to be harsh and try hard not to ever ever be but I really don't do weepy clingy IRL women well and I am mostly talking about a few (NOT ALL) of my experiences in outreach were often times we are taken in with so many sob stories -- for example it took me three times giving the same woman train fare and bus fare before figuring out it was the third time she came with the same story of the deceased mother she had no money to go out of town for the funeral of until another worker told me she had been in the day before with the same old same old...... I have one or two reactions depending on the situation ... if it is drama or croc tears related or just exaggerated hysterics I will still try to console but I can't help thinking to myself 'oh please stop it already' ... or if it is genuine ... cases that are truly genuine you can feel the tears/pain/happiness whatever here I am all consoling and before you know it I may be crying right along too not even thinking about doing so....

Well ... that is not even the point of my thread ... you all forgive the verbose... I am old and my mind wanders .. shoot that is a lie ... my mind has been wandering from birth IMO LOL....

This is the thing though ... WHY .. CAN ONE OF YOU PLEASE TELL ME WHY? feeling as I do as my first paragraph here I am early this morning bawling my eyes off at the dumbest thing .. but it made me cry ... have any of you ever cried over some dumb shiat? but it broke my heart a little bit though and it make me just plain ole CRY...

This is the story.... every.single.time I give my ferrets a treat ... oh and my boys and girls LOVE treats ... my dwarf ferret Chiquitita would diligently take her first treat and walk it up the stairs in the cage to the uppermost compartment and gingerly place it between the folds of a blanket that is layered up there and folded in fours ... between the two top layers and the bottom layers she has build up a stash ... it is a ritual I have watched her doing this for the past month or so .... I know the stash is there and I do not touch nor remove it when cleaning ... she knows where her stuff is and she goes and gets it when she is ready....

This morning as I was giving them their treats Chiqui kept jumping and grabbing my hand as if wanting to tell me something .... she wrapped her front legs tight around my hand and pulled in the direction of the bottom part of the cage with the open door that leads into the compartmentalized cage ... she wrapped and pulled ... so I looked in the direction of the cage as she wanted me to do then she runs up to the uppermost compartment and shrieks and looks at me and shrieks ... I am noticing a bump in the blanket ... WHERE SLINKY FOUND HER STASH AND ATE IT ALL ... CHIQUI LOOKED AT ME WITH HAUNTED EYES THAT HAD A QUESTION MARK THAT SAID WHHHHHHHHYYYYYYYYYYYYY????????? AND HER EYES WERE SHINING AND THIS BIG OLD FOOL THAT I AM STARTED CRYING ... BECAUSE IT MADE ME FEEL SO BAD THAT SHE HAD WORKED SO HARD TO BUILD UP HER STASH AND HERE CAME SLINKY AND ATE IT ALL ... JUST LIKE THAT ....

I held Chiqui... she loves that ... and I petted her ... and gave her another treat ... and here she went again to the door and up the stairs and all the way up the the uppermost compartment of the cage and I watched her gingerly hide her treat this time on the opposite end of the blanket... and I thought to myself ... here you are tearing up like a jackass and Chiquitita has it all figured out ... she counted her losses ... shrieked for a moment and is right back to starting to building up another stash ... LESSON LEARNED from a dwarf ferret....






Chiquitita up to hide her stash...

I HAVE MY OWN FLOWER GARDEN

Thanks to my beautiful DD all my fellows and girls are running around in flower leashes that DD ordered at Ferret.com were we get awesome prices on treats and more...

Finigan loved his ... he was even sharing kisses... this is Finigan with my DD

Here is my beautiful last addition to the fur circus Finigan-Beau ... he is sure looking like a flower pot LOL



Here is Finigan-Beau with his sister my lovely dwarf ferret Chiquitita and yup the baby is already bigger than her...



Life got in the way and I have neglecting my blogs a bit but I will be back posting more because I have it all captured in pictures and videos ... just got to make the time to transfer it all...

The sharpest little cookie in the fur circus....

Our new addition Finigan Beau ... we will be calling him Finibeau for short.  I love the name Finigan ... it is the username of my awesome OH sista Mary and the name of one of her cats.  When I was hesitant to get ferret #8 there was Mary telling me to go right ahead ... and I told her if I did I was going to name it Finigan and I did....


Finibeau is just ADORABLE ... now Fini my friend told me yesterday that the little cookie looks sharper than the others oh my and I think she is right.....  He is one sharp cookie alright... he found the treats alright...


Can you believe he is ALREADY litter trained? but I suppose I have to give his brothers and sisters credit for that ... I bet Petunia showed him where to go.... and he did just that...


I just made a pit stop at home ... and I am running back out to the hospital to be with my daughter now ... having fed and petted my furry critters ... 8 players in my fur circus ... when I walked up to the pen this morning the were all lined up as if asking 'hey you, where have you been?'

I love my very playful sociable guys ... can you imagine ...they welcomed Finibeau and even shared their water with him ...

I love FINIBEAU ... will update later ... running off to see my dear daughter ... now get out of my pocketbook Finibeau ... you can't come with me...

THE FUR CIRCUS IS EVEN NOW .. NO MORE ODD NUMBERS

I could not blog much since I started this ... I had an emergency with my daughter and she is now hospitalized and this is where I have been since Friday..

I have my laptop with me but I have been extremely busy keeping up with the medical team and the stream of doctors coming in and out of her room that I just sporadically get on my laptop..

I am taking a moment to share with you the new addition to my family of ferrets ... my circus is now complete with the addition of Finigan ... my #8 and last ferret to make my numbers even....

He came home today .. picked up by my husband and for the few minutes that I held him in the car before running back in with my daughter I fell head over heels in love with him ....

Meet FINIGAN BEAU... I wanted a girl so bad that I was going to name Finigan Belle but my dear husband Al with me being keeping watch over my daughter at the hospital picked up this beautiful boy who is now named Finigan Beau... Finibeau for short...

and this is Al totally in love with him too...

THE PLAYERS. 7 BEAUTIFUL FERRETS #8 SOON TO COME!

I will tell it all ... about 7 ferrets that stole my heart...

MAXWELL ... the gentleman and a hoot ... he came first ...


what a playful lovely guy...


can you tell he is a hoot?


and along with him came his sister Petunia...

now she is an exotic princess and has a black heart for a nose...and my oh my shall we say PRINCESS?

oh and who needs to litter train the others? Petunia makes sure they go where they are supposed to go....

So those were the first two ... then I went to the pet club to by them some food and little eyes affixed themselves to my back and when I turned and made eye contact he did not look away ... he came to the corner of his glass cage and stood on his hind legs and propped himself up and looked at me.. he tugged at my heart when I sensed him say ''' bring me home with YOU''' ... and I could not resist... so that is how SLINKY Ferret #3 came to be... the cutest baby he was ... he is shy but he is the most curious and loving... that is him being held by my daughter...

Baby Slinky loved a toy and my boy Slinky LOVES AND HIDES TOYS NOW TOO...

ohhhhhhhhh and SLINKY LOVE HIS VITAMINS ...

and then came CHIQUITITA ... A TEENY TINY DWARF WHO REFUSES TO GROW SO SHE CAN ESCAPE LOL .... OMG .... what a hoot .... she escapes EVERY NIGHT!!!


CHIQUITITA IS JUST TINY .... PERIOD...

And looks like a wizened old lady ... she would stare and study every groove and then she will escape ...

AND THEN CASPAR CAME HOME .... MY AUTHENTIC ALBINO FERRET WITH LIGHT RED EYES... CLICK ON PLAY AND WATCH THE VIDEO ... MY FERRETS AND CASPAR'S HOMECOMING...


and Caspar thinks he is a cat.... HERE HE GOES MY BIG BOY WITH MY SON ... HE IS LOVING AND TENDER AND OMG HE IS SOOOOOOO GENTLE WITH HIS PAWS .. HE LOVES TO RUN ON HIS LEASH AND HE BARKS HAPPY WHEN DOING SO...


OHHHHHHHH AND THEN I GOT A CALL ... someone bought this beauty and decided they did not have the time to take care of him and brought him back and I was called ... and here is my first rescue ... MY BEAUTIFUL FERRET PEPE ... because as Pepe Le Pieu ... he is an albino with a black stripe down his back and dark red eyes ...

Pepe is a hoot and a sleeper...

and last but not least MY BEAUTIFUL BABY SEBASTIAN CAME HOME ... WAIT WAIT WAIT ... SEBASTIAN IS #7 WHAT AN ODD NUMBER ... WELL IMMA GONNA MAKE IT 8 BECAUSE SOON I WILL HAVE A BEAUTIFUL BABY GIRL I AM NAMING FINIGAN ... SHE IS GOING TO COMPLETE THE CIRCLE OF MY FUR CIRCUS....

MY BEAUTIFUL BABY SEBASTIAN ... THE NEXT TO LAST ADDITION ...

OOOOOHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH I LOVE THIS BABY.... SEBASTIAN HAS NO NECK IF ANY AT ALL AND HE IS SOOOOOOOOOOOOOO CUTE....

CAN YOU TELL A SPOILED LITTLE FERRET?.... Here he goes with my beautiful daughter...

and he has grown into the beautiful sable that he is... I LOVE SEBASTIAN....

HAVE TO RUN FOR A MINUTE BUT WILL KEEP ON POSTING TO THIS