Salt and Pepper

by Kelby

(England)

Hello, a first time ferret owner here! Firstly, excuse my terrible grammar/ spelling (I’m on my phone xD)

I love my two ferrets, in fact infatuated would be a better word. They’re hilarious and both have massive personalities. It’s great watch them play and join in with the chaos.

I could babble on for hours about them and about how great they are but it’s getting late so I’m just going to share one of my “oopsie” moments.

Salt and Pepper are free roam ferrets, getting the run of the house. This is great and they were a breeze to litter train. However be warned, keep toilet seats down and double check your ferret proofing!!

My younger sister left a toilet seat up before going to school, me being in a morning daze didn’t double check before letting the carpet sharks out. After having a snuggle and a play fight the two monkeys headed upstairs while I sat in the front room guarding an indoor plant and doing course work.

Ages minutes later my ferret senses started to tingle and I went upstairs to find them. I found Pepper in the toilet! While I panicked, profusely apologised to her for my stupidity, fished her out and washed her off (even though the water was clean) and dried her, Salt had snuck downstairs and yep, some how ended up in the plant pot.

Came back down a few minutes later to find out cream sofa covered in mud, our cream carpet, covered in my and yep, Salt the albino ferret covered in mud. I felt terrible, more terrible than I can begin to describe that I was so stupid not to double check. It’s safe to say I learned a very valuable lesson. If your ferrets are free roam check your ferret proofing daily, then Double check, triple check and then check again!

Thankfully managed to get everything and everyone cleaned and dry before my mum came home.