Giving Another Ferret A Home

As of Friday afternoon, we have four ferrets. Recently we learned that Felix, the resident ferret at the Saskatchewan Science Centre, needed a new home. Felix had been welcoming children and adults to the Science Centre for many years. He had also gone out with the staff on outreach programs. He's a well-travelled ferret! However, Felix is now getting to that time of a ferret's life where health problems start to occur. Much of the hair on his back started to fall out, and a visit to the vet showed that he had a tumour on his adrenal gland. The wonderful people at the Science Centre paid for surgery so that the tumour could be removed, but the vet told them that there was no guarantee that the hair would grow back. They decided that it was time for Felix to take a well-deserved retirement, and the staff put out word that he needed a new home. I heard about it through the local ferret network, and as Alan and I have a lot of experience with older ferrets (and ferrets with adrenal problems), we offered him a home. He came to live with us on Friday afternoon, and as far as we can tell, he's perfectly happy with the move. Like all ferrets, he likes to explore, and our house is set up for that. We ferret-proofed it when we got our first ferret 16 years ago, and we let all the animals run throughout (except in the basement, which isn't finished). He gets along well with our other animals (three other ferrets, one hedgehog, one dog, and two cats), and they all are completely relaxed with him. Trudy, the liveliest of our cats, likes to play with him, and he seems to enjoy that too. Best of all, he loves to snuggle! It's been a long time since we had a ferret who would snuggle, and now we have two—Adja has decided that she likes to sleep on my lap. We have changed his name. We both found we were tripping over "Felix" when we tried to pronounce it, so we changed his name to Max.