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Ferrets

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

08:44 / 13.04.03

Apologies to anyone I bored shitless with this at Flyboy's birthday bash...

OKAY. I read a few days ago that apparently two million (that's TWO. MILLION.) people in the UK own ferrets. That's about one in thirty, or just under. Which means a fair few of you lovely 'lithers must be ferret fanciers. C'mon, fess up.

Mourne Kransky

09:39 / 13.04.03

And they will now be able to have their own passports, under new EU regulations.

"The new law will make it much easier for British male ferrets to meet French female ferrets. It could have profound implications for the future of the breeding stock on both sides of the Channel."

Ah, British ferrets abroad - smoking Disque Bleu and drinking absinthe in street cafés in Montparnasse. C'est si bon!

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

09:58 / 13.04.03

Yeah, I think it was the passport issue that led to the statistic being printed in the paper. What do they put under "Occupation"?

Pet passports rock, though. If I ever get my shit together to go over the sea for a prolonged period of time, I can take my dog (cos I wouldn't go without her).

Although a couple of friends of mine managed to smuggle their rats back to Sweden because they'd forgotten to get the documentation sorted... they'd been too busy making sure their dog- Elric, he was so cool- was all checked out... (this was pre-terrorist hysteria, obviously. Cos otherwise, rodents'd be DEFINITE Guantanamo Bay candidates.)

Mazarine

13:31 / 13.04.03

I used to have ferrets when I was younger. We had two pairs that both died of old age- first Rufus and Flip, then (when I was reading Hitchhiker's Guide for about the 15th time) Fenchurch and Bart. Bart was the sweetest little creature in the entire world, while Fenchurch was pure albino evil who bit everyone- including my grandma- but me. I miss them sometimes, they were great critters.

rizla mission

16:16 / 13.04.03

OKAY. I read a few days ago that apparently two million (that's TWO. MILLION.) people in the UK own ferrets.

That had gotta be completely, utterly untrue... I mean, I've lived out here all my life in the depth of the countryside and I've never even SEEN a fucking ferret, let alone ran into anyone who owned one...

Is Ferret owning considered shameful? Do people keep their ferrets out of sight?

Mazarine

17:43 / 13.04.03

Everyone's probably hiding them from their landlords.

Olulabelle

19:30 / 13.04.03

They're all down the ferret peoples trousers.

Sax

19:34 / 13.04.03

I used to live near a woman who took her ferret for a walk in a cat harness. Probably still does.

And yes, the north is full of the damned things. And people do put them down their trousers. I've never had one, nor touched one. They appear to me like stretched rats. Which can't give them any kind of placid personality.

sobel

19:46 / 13.04.03

this may sound naive, but why do people put ferrets down their trousers?

Olulabelle

19:50 / 13.04.03

Possibly for the same reason that people like Richard Gere put hamsters up their bottoms.

Olulabelle

19:51 / 13.04.03

Or is it Gerbils? Small rodents, anyway.

gingerbop

20:25 / 13.04.03

i know someone who had them.. they stank. dont know anyone who still has one tho. Yukky little stretched guini pigs

sobel

20:33 / 13.04.03

so do they pull their teeth out first or is that all part of the thrill?

Olulabelle

20:38 / 13.04.03

Erm...Having never undertaken the process I am delighted to say I have absolutely no idea. It's probably an urban myth anyway.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

22:40 / 13.04.03

I don't know if it's a sexual thing- isn't it like some crazy kind of competition?

Foust is SO authentic

23:48 / 13.04.03

If the Simpsons is at all accurate - and we know it is - some people put squirrels down their pants for the purposes of gambling. Wouldn't ferrets serve the same purpose?

Sax

06:23 / 14.04.03

I think it's just a handy, warm place to keep your ferrets when on the move. Provided you tie the bottoms of your trousers up with string.

Nietzsch E. Coyote

08:06 / 14.04.03

Actually you don't put ferrets down your trowsers... If you don't pay attention they sneak up to you and climb up.

While I was trying to shake the bugger out his accomplice ran up and stole my sock right off my foot. From that point on I made my friend warn me if they were out of their cages. Also why is it everyone seems to own pairs of these things?

Tryphena Absent

16:08 / 14.04.03

Ahem...

Ferret Bueller's Day Off.

mixmage

16:09 / 14.04.03

"I've said it before and I'll say it again... ferrets move pretty fast - you don't stop to look around once in a while...
you could miss it!"

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

07:24 / 15.04.03

I've recently been told that the custom originated with poachers, who'd keep the little critters down their kecks to fool the wily gamekeeper. And as far as I could find from reading far more Googled ferret sites than is probably healthy, the record is four hours & 12 minutes with two ferrets.

Olulabelle

11:06 / 15.04.03

That's not normal.

Why would you want to have something wiggling around in your trousers for 4 hours and 12 minutes? And how does it fool gamekeepers? Surely they can see your trousers moving?

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

15:31 / 15.04.03

On the subject of not being normal... check this out for weird.

Charles Manson and ferretry- two odd tastes that taste even odder together

Sometimes the internet scares me.

that

16:53 / 16.04.03

I like ferrets. I also like pigeons. Hmm. I'd keep both, if I could. I met a bunch of ferrets at my ex's animal care college - they had to be handled with big fuck-off gloves, because they bite, not being overly socialised, and also being rather short-sighted. But they are attractive animals, fairly intelligent, and can be house-trained which is always a good thing. I don't think my dogs would relish their company however...

rizla mission

20:52 / 16.04.03

Charles Manson and ferretry- two odd tastes that taste even odder together

"Where ferrets are treated like family"(!)

Oh dear god that's unsavoury. I have to learn to stop following these scary links.

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