April 19 Photo ~ HobNob at Large

    

 

 

 

 

Oooh, it's lower down there

HobNob hadn’t been out of his cage since he arrived ~ whereas his girlies would be out as soon as the door started opening, I had to encourage this boy to leave the safety of his home.

What's up here? Freedom?

He had to check the opening out thoroughly before venturing forth.

What went thisaway?

& had to sniff the ground  by his cage.

Hi! I'm HobNob

Introductions to the world were in order.

 

Hmmmmmmmmmmm something interesting went along here...

& then he was off on the trail of something of ferrety interest.  

Getting him back in the cage was harder than getting him out in the first place & I think he had a good time exploring the yard, or the part of it he looked at this time.

 

Jan 12 Photo ~ Ferrets

Cob Fert & 1 of the Gills

When we moved to Ireland, my son’s ferrets came with us, unfortunately, son didn’t, so I was landed with 2 examples of liquid fur that regard me as dinner.  He had a pair of  gills whom he named Littlev Nip & Scout.  Both he & Annon can tell them apart by their face masks, but I can’t ~ they look identical to me.  When he first got them, I deliberately didn’t handle them as they were HIS animals & I didn’t want them getting used to me

simply because I was around all the time & he was at school.

After we moved to Ireland, he kept asking if I could mate his girls.  I tried for 2 years to borrow a cob fert, but nothing doing, so in the end this one came from someone who keeps wanting to buy/breed from my livestock.   I’d like my son to name him, but if he doesn’t do so soon, HobNob will stick or maybe HobGoblin as hob seems to be the more usual

term for a boy ferret.  The gills are polecat ferrets, but I’m not exactly sure of the technical colour term for the cob, ?Sandy.  The babies are more than likely to be polecat in their markings as that seems to be the more dominant gene.

The 3 ferrets play together, the girls not worried that their new playmate is so much bigger than them.

I opened the door of their cage to get these pictures & the gills were gone (see 2nd picture for the disappearing tail)!  The cob stayed within the confines of the cage doorway.  I caught 1 between their cage & an (empty) chicken house & the other suddenly appeared on the roof of the cage!