I recently discovered Getoutoftherecat and thought this would be great for ferrets. Ferrets are michevious, determined, and small. They can and will get into unwanted places and get into unwanted things. If you have a picture of a ferret doing something unwanted but cute submit the picture. Only the pictures tagged with mine are my ferrets, the others are found via the web or submissions. I post pictures that make you say What are you doing?
These are my two fuzzbutts, Tesla and Edison, the science weasels I named my tumblr after. :) Tesla is the cinnamon lurking in the background. We got Edison a week after Tesla, and he immediately lived up to his part of the historical rivalry. He sits on Tesla, pushes her away from the water bottle, gets stuck on the bed, and hogs photos. Tesla’s the smarter one. ;)
We have three ferrets: from top to bottom, Baltimore, Chip, Lou. Lou was named because my roommate at the time loved the name. I didn’t really like it, and I tried to change it, but Lou just stuck. We call him Peach though, because he’s so mellow and his skin is such a peachy color compared to the other two. My partner named Chip because he’s got some ‘chocolate chips’ on his tummy and head. Lastly, we named Baltimore because he has a mark on his nose in the shape of Maryland, but we didn’t like the name Maryland.
That’s my business! They don’t have exciting names, but they’re all still lovely.
All my boys have name stories!
Fizzgig - ever since I discovered ferrets as a kid I wanted to name my first Fizzgig after the flaily little creature from The dark Crystal. Fizzy was my first, 23 years later - he got bestowed the name.
Scrat - we couldn’t name him at first, then he started hording things.. then we realised it was one specific toy and he would go to great lengths to try and find it each time. Much like Skrat from Ice Age. The name stuck, although with a typo.
Rolo - Rolo was a rescue ferret and had a lot of psychological issues. Originally called “Blaze” he was kept in a group of un neutered hobs, all with horrific physical injuries caused by fighting - he was the only one we were able to rehome from there (the others went to a rescue). When we got him home he had a lot of problems, he’d never been handled, had never played and was very viscous - it took over a month to introduce him to Fizzgig and Scrat after he was neutered and nearly 3 months until he was comfortable being held. He used to pace a lot and spent most of his time rolling around the bottom of the cage to begin with - a friend of ours started calling him our “Roly Poly Ferret” which got shortened to “Rolo”. The name stuck though and now I call him “My Only Rolo” - you wouldn’t give anyone your last Rolo so why on earth would you consider giving away your only one?
Nico - Ah. Nico. Nico took 4 days to name, we got him while a friend was visiting (who was our transport for picking him up) and said friend happened to bring his copy of Grand Theft Auto 4 with him. My housemate was keen on the game and it was pretty much a daily play on our TV - In the game you play a character called “Niko Bellic” who is constantly getting phonecalls from his cousin, Roman with “hey Niko you wanna go bowling?” “hey Niko you wanna go meet some ladies?” etc and a big focus of his Romans was taking Niko to “see ladies with the biiiiiig titties” (apologies for that!). Nico was obsessed with hiding inside my shirt within a day of us getting him. I’m a lady. Yeah. My ferret is named after a guy who gets pressured to look at boobs.
New mini challenge:
What’s the story behind your ferret names/nicknames
I just want to read them, submit them, reply, send them to my ask
Not a picture but I thought this was cute
On a side note, I did have one ferret that during the last year of his life, turned into the Anti-Ferret, and started returning items that the other two had stolen. The first time he did this was when my wife returned from shopping and she had left a…
I love the Antiferret.
