Post by rene on Aug 4, 2009 13:27:29 GMT -5
I went to a retreat this weekend, and left Cinnamon with an experinced "ferret sitter." Before I left, I gave him his last feeding and medication and let all of them out to run in my room for awhile. Cinnamon was playing with Toby. rolling and jumping, and hopping. It was great to see. His sitter, has 3 ferrets of her own, and said that Cinnamon had a great time there, also playing with her babies, and loved it when she got down on all fours to chase him. I do feed him out of a spoon and not a syringe. My duck soup has bits of meat in it and probably would not easily go through a syringe. Cinnamon drinks the liquid parts and then grabs the bits of meat and runs a few inches away to eat them then comes back for more.He has started to eat more of his dry kibble. Sometimes, I warm his soup up in a styrofoam cup. Thursday night, I heated up his soup in a cup like that and was feeding it to him and running around and offering more to him when he got down to play. Charcoal got up in my lap, and I thought he wanted to try the duck soup that he had turned up his nose at before. Wrong! He wanted to steal the styrofoam cup from my hand. The dog was following me for the duck soup and Charcoal was following me for the styrofoam cup. I was a pied piper of sorts for awhile. Charcoal is fixated with styrofoam. Not the starch packing one though. Last night I heard him making a racket in the linen closet, and when I dug him out, he had been playing where I store my cordless dust buster in its box, with the original packing. Just like a mischevious kid. Looking for ways to get into stuff, that he can't have. I have to find all the places where styrofoam is located or Charcoal will! He is a bundle of chaotic energy. I will try the rice idea. I have a rubbermade box in my bedroom with play sand in it for the RGS to burrow in, but I was afraid to let the ferrets get in there, because lord knows what they might eat. Couldn't rice be dangerous if they ate it?