We see Dave Again, And Again!

Hi Woofers!

Daisy, Holly, Miss May, Miss April, Fred & Wilma back again!

Loads of running around today. We started off with our walk down on the beach. Miss April is getting all very crafty, as soon as Old Two Legs gets her out of the bag, she crouches down and refuses to move, that is until OTL walks back and gets near enough to her that she thinks she has a chance of climbing up his leg. So, she rushes forward but OTL steps away and she then chases him for a few steps before  she crouches down again!

This carries on for a little while and sometimes OTL picks her up and she snuggles back into the bag but towards the end of the walk, she is running with Miss May back to the car. OTL can keep his legs!

So, one way or another, she gets some exercise and her claws get worn just a little on the concrete. You know, April and May haven't had their claws trimmed since they have been with us and that was the beginning of August!

Holly and I get our claws trimmed every time we have a Shampoo and Set, like wot we are having tomorrow!

Come on Ferrets!

Down on the beach we met up with young Dave. Now he doesn't have a mate to play with at home, so he gets all excited when he spots us and just can't keep still!

Come on! Let's Play!

We had a game of 'Chase' with him before he got called away. I just had to play a trick on him, you see Dave just believes everything Holly and I tell him, so, when he stopped for a wee, I told him.........

Here! I can see out your nose from here!

That was it, he said he would get to the vet to check it out as he was sure that was not supposed to happen!

We had great trouble keeping a straight face!

Back home OTL was having trouble with Nipper, he has been bashing away at his cage and is bending the bars. OTL reckons that he may install electrified bars to stop him from doing any more damage! I think that OTL will be pleased when Archie Babe or his Two Legs comes to collect him. It won't be as noisy at night either!

Fred & Wilma went off with OTL to the vet to get stabbed with a needle that will stop them getting Canine Distemper. OTL reckons it will be safe to take them out walking with us in about a week.

The vet was new and didn't know a lot about Ferrets, never heard of Ferretone and had only got near to a ferret when it was under anaesthetic!

It's a good job OTL has some knowledge on ferrets! You know he had to tell the vet to inject into the scruff of the neck and the vet was surprised just how tough the skin was! She had to give the needle a good shove to get it in Fred!

He didn't care, he was too busy slurping Ferretone!

OTL still left the vet's in tears, his wallet took a bashing!

Back home they came and by the time all the cages were cleaned, it was walkies time again and you'll never guess who we met!

It's Dave Again!

Dave had reported back to his TL about me being able to see from his tail all the way up to his nose. His TL said that I was pulling his tail and I was a Naughty Puppy and he shouldn't listen to us!

Us? Naughty? Never!

I went for a splash in the sea 'cos the tide was right in but there were no waves at all, dead flat!

Having a splash!

When we got to the beach, Holly pointed out that the 'Half Boat' had disappeared!

Gone!

OTL reckons it is hiding! We shall see tomorrow morning when the tide is out!

Now, these Ferrets, OTL was having a chat with Rachel who owns a load of ferrets and was winning all the prizes at the Ferret Show. Her ferrets looked wonderful, bright eyes, super smooth coats. 'What's The Secret?' he says thinking that he has a year to get May, April, Fred & Wilma in tip top condition.

'Raw Meat' was the answer. Ferrets naturally will eat raw meat, no biscuits or any other stuff, just skin, flesh, bone, feathers and fur!

OTL is going to try to get Fred & Wilma to eat raw meat.

We have presented them with two small stainless steel bowls with two large spoon full of beef mince.

Fred had a sniff, tasted a bit, then went off to get a drink.

Wilma shoved her snout into the bowl, took a big mouthful and ran off to hide it behind their bed! Then she came tearing back, grabbed another mouth full and stashed it behind the bed again! And so on it went until the bowl was empty and their were chomping sounds coming from behind the bed!

OTL says that he will wait until tomorrow when he cleans the cage out to see if it is eaten or left as a stash!

See you tomorrow!

Luv,

Daisy, Holly, Miss May, Miss April, Fred & Wilma.

Polecat or Polecat Ferret, that is the question!

Hi Woofers!

Daisy, Holly, Miss May, Miss April, Fred & Wilma here!

Now, it was most remiss of me but I didn't tell you the whole story of the Rawhide Chew yesterday.

Naughty Daisy!

Now, Holly and I were very good girls yesterday and we were given a Rawhide chew each. Holly and I straight away headed for our own 'Private Place' where we go to when we want to nibble a treat without anyone disturbing us.

I headed for the office and Holly headed for the sofa!

Well we both had a nibble and then went off to mug Old Two Legs out of some of his dinner. A bit later, like bed time, we both retrieved our chews and jumped onto OTL's bed and began to have a bit of a gnaw, much to the dislike of The Missus who grabbed both of the chews and hid them on top of the wardrobe!

I mean, if she wanted a nibble all she had to do was ask!

Now, another thing we have to do is to say 'HAPPY BIRTHDAY' to Auntie Karen (The Cat Woman)
who has reached the ripe old age of Umpty One, again!

I mean, just how many times can you be Umpty One and get away with it?

The ferrets came with us for a walk this morning 'cos the sun was just getting up and it wasn't very cold, just a little dark!

A Sheerness Sunrise.

 It was OK getting down there early but we were fascinated by the cloud shapes, strange or wot?

Holly said that she reckon that the cloud was Altocumulus, and really it wasn't so rare!

She is such a Know it All some times!

Altocumulus with puffy bits?

 Miss April said that she thought it was Altocumulus as well and now that is sorted, can she have a carry?

I'm with her on the clouds and she said I deserve a carry!

 OTL had to go out today, so we had the whole office to our selves, bits of teeth cleaning chews and rawhide chews were all over the place and we even found the bone OTL got us up at the Doggy Shop!

He didn't get back until two thirty, so we were late going out for the lunchtime walk! We missed all The Lads who we normally see but we did see the beginning of  the sunset, which was promising to be as spectacular as the sunrise!

It has the look of a good sunset,

There was a funny looking cloud floating over us and it looked enormous, like a big ball of cotton wool!

That is one big cloud!

 Now, we have a little problem, we are undecided on the exact description of Fred & Wilma, OTL reckons they are Polecat Ferrets while Holly says they look like Polecats I think they could be Coloured Ferrets. So, we are going to get some pictures of them and put it out on the Fluffy Ferret Forum for suggestions, but it won't be for a week or so.

Holly says that she is willing to bet a Bonio she is right!

We shall see!

Right, we are off to see what is for dinner.

Bye bye for now.

Luv,

Daisy, Holly, Miss May, Miss April, Fred & Wilma.

Wet Damp and we get a Rawhide Chew!

Hello Woofers!

Daisy, Holly, Miss May, Miss April, Fred & Wilma here!

Wot a dismal day! It has been grey and cloudy and every time we stick our noses out the door, it was raining!

This morning Old Two Legs got the ferrets ready to go out but at the last moment let them out of the travelling cage to go back to sleep! He said it was not the sort of weather the ferrets would enjoy and instead he let them out for an extra long rampage around the house.

We, on the other paw had to go walkies and when we got there it didn't look very exciting!

In fact it looked terrible!

We've seen better mornings!

OTL said we were a couple of Dismal Dora's' and we should look for something cheerful and uplifting!

So we did, Holly found this we sea weed that looked like it had diamonds hanging from the fronds!

Wet Sea Weed

Back home we found that Fred still hasn't got the hang of the Poo Pot yet and left another job for OTL to work on!

May and April had fun chasing each other and OTL around until they got put back in the cage again. May was still throwing a strop when OTL let Fred and Wilma out for a wander around the office.

While OTL was wandering back and forward Fred got out of the office for a wander, with OTL's permission, and investigated The Missus's card store room, then the bathroom and finally OTL's bedroom where he sat for a while looking out the window!

He also got half way down the stairs before OTL picked him up and headed back to the office!

Wilma managed to give OTL a couple of nips but they were 'Fun' nips and it didn't stop her getting a slurp of Ferretone from OTL!

Lunchtime it was still raining, so the ferrets stayed tucked up in bed while Holly and I had to brave the howling gales!

We met up with The Lads and managed to mug a tit-bit before carrying on with the walk.

I need a nibble 'cos I'm hungry!

Then we met up with Darcie who just loves OTL and she left her paw marks on his jacket when she jumped up to lick his nose!

She got told off for jumping up and OTL said it was OK 'cos he likes Darcie 'cos she is such a friendly woofer!

but he Likes his nose being licked!

 A bit further on we met up with a new woofer called George, who is a sort of Lurcher Type.

Now, his Two Legs was sitting on the bench with Georges Ball under his paw and of course if you got his ball, you got his attention!

Holly and I decided that it was the perfect opportunity to do wot all doggies do.

Have a sniff!

..........are they allowed to do this?

We didn't hang about 'cos OTL was marching off down to the beach where the 'Half Boat' was showing signs of disintegrating even further!

Not long now!

We saw a funny sight as we headed back to the car, there, at the top of the trees, hanging on for dear life, was this TL!

He looked so funny with a paw on each tree!

OTL said he was a Tree Surgeon, a sort of Tree Vet, who was 'Tidying up' the trees.

It's a Tree Vet

Well, all I can say is that I'm glad our vet just stabs us and doesn't do what the Tree Vet does, he chops bits off the tree! 

See you tomorrow!

Luv,

Daisy, Holly, Miss May, Miss April, Fred & Wilma

It's Poo Pot Kicking Time!

Hi Woofers!

Here we are, back again!

Daisy, Holly, Miss May, Miss April, Fred and Wilma!

It's been a chilly day today! This morning Miss April spent most of the time she was out, trying to get back into the bag!

As Old Two Legs hadn't brought the camera there was no reason for us to hang about and we were all back home in no time!

Back home OTL set about cleaning the cages.

Now Fred just can't seem to get the hang of a Poo Pot, I mean, there are two pots covering just over half of the ground floor but somehow he manages to poo in between them, not once but several times!

Now this means that there is more poo to shovel and because it takes longer, Fred and Wilma are out of their cages longer for a super run around the office and a game in the ball crate!

This doesn't  sit too well with Miss May, she hates the thought of someone getting attention from OTL. She hates the idea that another pair of ferrets are playing in their territory! She also hates the sight of these two new upstarts wandering over to her cage and sniffing the bars!

She tears around her cage, up and down the floors giving Fred & Wilma the evil 'Hairy Eyeball'!

Not that Fred & Wilma care in the slightest, they both just love having all that space to run around in!

Wilma loves hiding in all OTL's camera gear and jumping out at him, this morning she grabbed him on the arm with her teeth and put four puncture holes in his arm. It was a good job she was just playing but there was a little bit of blood!

After doing the Page 3 Girls cage and starting on Fred & Wilma's cage, May was getting a real big strop on and was kicking her Poo Pots all over the cage, there was all the cat litter being kicked out of the cage and thrown all over the carpet.

OTL thinks that the chance of them coming together as one 'Super Group' is very unlikely!

Lunchtime we left them all asleep and headed of to the beach on our own. I had another look at the boat and decided that it was past floating on it's own, instead I reckon the waves are beating it to pieces evey time the tide comes in!

I think it has had it!

Holly, not being the nautical type, sat down, let out a big 'Stage Sigh' and said she 'Really was not interested'!

Do I look as though I care?

We headed off up the grass path and she was more concerned about the size of her tail!

Of course it's big, it goes with the size of your Butt!

That's when the fight started!

Heading back it was getting dark and the sun was going down and it was starting to get chilly again!

Sunset over Grain!

Back home Fred & Wilma woke up and said 'Hello' to OTL, got a slurp of Ferretone and Fred had a cuddle while Wilma was kicking seven sorts of poo out of one of the squeaky rubber balls!

She was sinking her teeth into it and then giving it a really good shake then biting it again!

Fred wandered off and did another poo, in between the Poo Pots!

We are not sure if he is having a game with OTL or he really hasn't got the idea of reversing into the pot!

Turn the light out as you leave, we want a snooze!

That's it today Woofers, we are off to watch the 'Extended Blu Ray' Hobbit film about the five armies.

Hey, where does Gandalf keep his armies?

Up his Sleevies'!

Luv,

Daisy, Holl, Miss May, Miss April Fred & Wilma.

OTL is back to Shoveling Poo!

Hi Woofers!

Ready?

It's, Daisy, Holly, Miss May, Miss April, Miss Wilma and Mr Fred!

Now, how about this?

May, Silver Jill                                                                                              April, Coloured Jill

 Well, we all survived the night! Both sets of ferrets crashed out once Old Two Legs had got the bedding, food and water sorted out and we didn't hear a thing until seven this morning as it got light!

Fred and Wilma haven't got the layout of the cage yet so there were piles of poo in all the corners and a couple in the Poo Pots!

One of two things will happen, they will settle on a Poo Pot each or carry on pooing all over the place, giving OTL something to look forward to after breakfast every morning!

Fred, who asks we drop the 'Mr', has been playing with OTL. While cleaning the cage out, he and Wilma, yes, she wants to drop the 'Miss' as well, they both had the run of the office to explore and sniff. While they were doing that, OTL was working on the cleaning bit.

The bottom cage which contains a Poo Pot and a dogs bowel of water, was particularly well represented with Fred's calling cards! Every time OTL stuck his arm in to wipe it up, both Fred and Wilma would dive back in to see what he was doing! OTL, being the careful type and having a few Ferret Tooth Scars, decided to put them both in the Travelling Cage while he finished up!

Mind you, they still had fun exploring the office and discovering all sorts of stuff!

Look! Bum Wipes!

Both Fred and Wilma have been chasing the Cat Tease and Fred has been laughing (Dooking) his tail off! Wilma has discovered the basket full of Ping Pong balls and has given one a severe 'Mullering' !

They don't run away either!

We won't be taking them out for walks yet, not until they have had their Distemper injections, so that is something OTL has got to organise next week!

Until then they will have to put up with the Ping Pong Balls!

Wilma's Mullered Ping Pong Ball!

 Our walk this morning was cold, very cold! It was -1 degree when we got into the car and we all called for the heater to be put on 'Full'!

Miss April wasn't too keen on running through the frosty grass and kept wanting to get back into the Ferret Bag! Miss May, being a bit hardier enjoyed herself and was jogging all the way back to the car!

Although the sun had got up, there was some super colour in the sky above Sheerness this morning and OTL had his Big Camera with him and took this shot.

Almost a silhouette!

It wasn't too long before Lunchtime arrived and we headed off to the beach again!

OTL decided to leave the ferrets at home 'cos they looked so comfortable all tucked up in their hammock!

I had a game of 'Bulldozers' which OTL says I copied from Miss May!

As if!

 But it was a good game!

Chasing OTL!

OTL has been processing some of the pictures from yesterday and we picked some for the blog.

In this one he is telling May to 'Be Brave' and 'Keep your Tail Up!'

Be Brave my little one!

 We like this one, the two winners looking tired after such a busy day!

Looking forward to a snooze!

Today we have been trying to train Archie Babes new ferret. He is a feisty thing and has already wreaked one cage. OTL had to use a cattle prod to keep him away while he welded up the cage bars! Still, we are expecting him to be tame enough to travel home without eating Archie Babe!

OTL says that instead of being called 'Nipper' he should have been called 'Munchie' 'cos he has munch his way through everything so far!

By the way, did you see me on Michael's blog yesterday?


See you all tomorrow!

Luv,

Daisy, Holly, Miss May, Miss April, Fred and Wilma!

Wot a Day!

Hi Woofers!

We've just got back home, Daisy, Holly, Miss May and Miss April,    PLUS      Fred & Wilma!

Yes!, We have been joined by a Brother and Sister Polecat Ferrets!

OTL says that he has never gone out looking for pets but it is always left to fate to lend a hand!

This time we think that and angel called Chris had a little bit of a paw in bringing Fred & Wilma and OTL together!

It's a bit late for a full report of today's excitement but as well as two more ferrets, both May and April won awards in their classes, Silver Jill and Coloured Jill. Not first prize but very close, we were told that it was only three points or two in between first and fourth place!

The Missus tried to take a picture of OTL with their certificates but she isn't very good with the big camera, still she tried!

Miss May Third and Miss April Fourth!

Finally, may we present our new family members............


Fred & Wilma, (Fred is on the left)

Going from Left to Right, Fred, OTL and Wilma!

We haven't put them on the scales yet but Fred is a big lad, OTL says he could almost put a saddle on him and ride him around the garden!

More fun and games tomorrow and by the way, Archie Babe will have a new mate soon 'cos he won a ferret at the show!

We will get some pictures for you to see tomorrow, and it's called 'Nipper'!

Bye bye for now.

Luv,

Daisy, Holly, Miss May, Miss April, Fred and Wilma.

Getting All Tarted Up for Tomorrow!

Hello Woofers!

Daisy, Holly, Miss May and Miss April here!

It has been a busy day today, loads of running around and both ferrets have been to have their hair done and claws polished and loads of other stuff that needed to be done to present them as super looking ferrets for the show tomorrow!

We had a run on the beach this morning and even April was doing some 'Press Ups' on the Sea Wall!

Polly stopped to say how impressed she was with the exercise regime  and just how good they looked!

You Look Good!

 After the press ups both ferrets headed over to the bush to get a bit of exfoliation!

A Little Exfoliation

 Barney No. 2 saw them after they had finished and even he was impressed. In fact he asked which bush they used so he could try it on the way back!

You look the business Girls!

Soon we were heading back for home and saw a flock of geese heading North to the feeding grounds in Norfolk where they will be staying for the Winter.

Can't stop but best of luck for tomorrow!

Back home to a big bowl of Lambs Heart and a snooze.

OTL had to go out this afternoon so The Missus took us down the beach. She didn't bring the ferrets 'cos they were having their 'Beauty Sleep' so they would be all fresh and cuddly for the show!

When OTL finally came back we could sniff some seriously good sniffs on him, he had been to the Doggy Shop!

As well as all the normal treats, he had got Holly and me a meat filled bone! It was super! Holly and I were straight up onto our cushions and were giving it some wellie!

Good OTL, he knows how to make us happy! We may even take the bones with us tomorrow so we can have a gnaw while we are under the table!

Now, we are off to see what is for dinner and then off to bed early so we can be up early for the show!

See you all there!

Luv,

Daisy, Holly, Miss May and Miss April.

Polly gets a Shock!

Hi Woofers!

Us again, Daisy, Holly, Miss May and Miss April.

Wot a Grey Old Day it's been down here in North Kent.

We went out first thing and didn't see any sunshine at all, not even a beam of sun light through the clouds!

In fact the beam of sunshine we did see was young Barney No. 2 who came bounding along the Sea Wall to say 'Hello' to the ferrets!

Hello Girlies!

 Miss May was busy playing 'Bulldozers' in the sand!

Brrrmmmmm! Brrmmmm!

Miss April had done a sneaky, while Old Two Legs was down on the sand playing with May, April climbed up and got into OTL's jacket pocket!

This is better!

When we got to the Grass Path, Holly and I went off for a sniff but had to wait for the ferrets to finish their sniffing but they do take so long!

Even Mr Brambles didn't take this long!

When we got to the top of the path we heard the gentle pad of paws and little Polly arrived to say hello. The ferrets were on the ground and as Polly got close for a sniff, Miss May jumped forward and bumped into Polly's nose which surprised Polly so much she sat back on her tail!

Holly said that you have to be careful when a ferret is close 'cos you don't know what they are going to do!

Hello my Favourite Ferrets!

We had a visitor today, Auntie Chris who has come over to see us and play 'Glue Slapping' with The Missus. She said 'Hello' to the Page 3 Girls and even had a stroke when OTL got them out of their beds where they were snoring their heads off!

We were going to all go out for a walk but the rain started and Holly and I snuggled further into our cushions and the ferrets almost disappeared under their bedding as well!

Not that it saved them 'cos a bit later, like two thirty, OTL said there was a break in the rain and we were off in the car, together with our towel and rain coats!

We did notice that he didn't take his camera, he didn't want to get it wet!

Just as we got out of the car we met up with Bonnie, she is the Staffy that had an operation on all her Dew Claws. She said it was all healing up thanks and really didn't bother her any more.

OTL had brought the Ferret Bag and Miss April was refusing to come out 'cos the ground was wet and she doesn't do wet, just like Holly Dog!

OTL got her out a couple of times for a Wee, a Poo and a run, but she really just wanted to stay in the bag!

Back home the ferrets had a 'Rampage' in OTL's office. May was climbing up onto the desk top, then doing runs across the keyboard on both computers, making a big mess of OTL's work!

Both ferrets have been in and out of Snowflakes cage exploring all the bedding and Poo Trays. They said that if OTL does it up and re arranges some of the shelves, they may move in!

OTL wanted to know if they had arranged a mortgage yet!

Pretty soon even they got tired and headed back to bed for a snooze before going to bed for the night!

We are all looking forward to the Harrietsham Ferret Show on Saturday and OTL says that Miss May is in top condition. Miss April looks good but because she is a bit smaller than May she doesn't look so 'Rounded' like a ferret should look as Winter arrives!

OTL says that's because she spends too much time in the ferret bag instead of jogging along the Sea Wall!

We are off now to see what there is to mug.

Bye bye for now.

Luv,

Daisy, Holly,Miss May and Miss April.

Sunshine Today!

Hi Woofers!

Daisy, Holly, Miss May and Miss April back again!

This morning we got up a bit later than normal, that's because The Missus was up even earlier and we weren't woken up by her snoring!

Mind you, Old Two Legs was making enough noise for all of us!

It was good to see the sun again, all the clouds were blown away by last nights wind which although it was blowing hard, it was very warm! I mean, November and we get warm winds!

Crazy!

Good Morning Mr Sun!

On our way down to the beach we met up with Barney No.2, he was tickled pink to see OTL and ignored us!

Yo OTL!

The Half Boat was still there and May went in to see if there were any Hammock Hooks for April to hang her bed on but had no luck. She said that if April wanted sleep on board she would have to bring her own hooks as well as her bed!

No Hooks Here!

 That was it, April decided that if there was no hooks and no hammocks on the boat then she wasn't going sailing on the Half Boat!

No thanks, I'll stay on shore thank you!

Along the Sea Wall both ferrets were having a race to see who could get home first but it was a tie in the end 'cos both their leads were the same length!

I'm Winning!

Back home Holly and I had some chicken waiting for us and Holly, being a bit of a joker said that the chicken tasted a bit like ferret!

Naughty Holly!

We were mooching about in OTL's office and I found Snowflakes Egg, it's a toy that shaped like an egg, it rattles if you shake it. Snowflake loved this toy and always took it to bed with her and she hid it during the day.

I found it in the bag of squeaky toys in the 'Pets R Us' bag!

So I've decided I'll look after it for her until another ferret 'Finds' it! 

Look, Snowflakes Egg!

We all went out lunchtime and had a super stroll along the Sea Wall, we found the waders that the Wormy Man had left over the bench.

The  Girls had a good sniff and said that it sniffed of Worms, so, we reckon The Worms got him and he is now getting lessons on not digging for worms!

Still no Wormy Man!

Back home April was soon asleep but May was more interested in charging about the office and rolling about on our cushions!

Holly and I had to stay in the bedroom, resting on the bed, until May was ready to go for her afternoon snooze, mind you, OTL's bed is rather comfortable!

OTL has ordered a new Ferret Bag for May and April with their embroidered names around a picture of a ferret!

With a bit of luck, that will be with us next week. So that means they can go out in their very own Ferret Bag!

We are off now to see what OTL had for dinner and if it is worth mugging him for it!

Last night we had to watch a cooking program and one of the cooks burnt an onion and called it 'Caramelized', OTL said that there was nothing special about that at all 'cos TM always Caramelises his dinners!

That's when the fight started!

See you tomorrow!

Luv,

Daisy, Holly, Miss May and Miss April.