Shortly After Tinkerbell Died, Scampi looked like she was really lonely and bored, and probably a bit depressed after her sister died.  So Raven and I started hunting around, and we came upon a place that had about 14 ferrets up for adoption.  We went in and our eyes were drawn to two little badgers (pandas) one was a little girl who kept jumping around and biting (not hard at all) but she was spastic and just wanted to play with everyone.  The other was a little boy who was content to just sit in our arms and lick our hands, or lightly chew on my bracelet.  He was so calm and mellow that we figured that since Scampi was an older ferret, a more sedate room mate might be in order.  So after getting a bill of health stating he had his shots and was completely healthy, we brought him home. He named himself on the way, by figuring out how to open the box, and jumping out and biting my hands and I kept saying "oww damn you" that Raven laughed and said we should call him Faust, at which point he looked at Raven like "sure, I like that name" and went back to chewing on me.

    We got him home, and I took him and scampi up to one of our empty rooms where it would be neutral territory to see how they got along.  Scampi utterly and totally ignored him.  He kept trying to get her to play, but she wanted nothing to do with him.  Well I figured that was better than them fighting.  Over the next two weeks, they started playing together and sleeping in the same hammock and all.  But boy did he have us fooled!!!  He's so far from the sedate little guy we thought we adopted.... he is totally spastic!!!! he does nothing but run around constantly when he's out, he loves to chew on my toes, or anyone's toes for that matter, even Bear's.  I've never seen such a wild ferret before.  He even chases his tail!! I've never seen a ferret do that before... Scampi could hold her own though, if he got too close to her stash of plushies, treats or food, she'd kick his butt and send him running.

    Now that he's an only ferret,  he and I have become playmates.  He doesn't like to play by himself, and will hunt me down to play with me. in fact he'll lay at my feet until I decide to play with him. Of all the ferret toys we have around, he'll only play with them if I play with him.  and his two favorite toys are an old rice bag (it used to hold 25lbs of rice) and an old tissue box.  He's adorable even though he is super crazy.

Faust Pictures!!

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