The ferrets have landed! i repeat, the ferrets have landed!

Well, its late friday, i just want to go to bed, but before i do, i shall tell my tale. otherwise, it probably will never be told!

So, after finding out thursday night that the ferrets would be overnighting in Atlanta, the airline told me they would be tracking them for me. so, what does that mean? well, a phone call at 3:30 in the morning, saying the ferrets are being tracked, and they will call me when they arrive. in my very alert state that i am, i inform the nice lady that thats wonderful, but i need to know if they get on the plane, and when they leave, not when they arrive, as im going to be driving 3hours to get to them! so, she says sure, i can do that. so that means i got a call at 5:30 am, saying the ferrets have left atlanta! wonderful i say. as i try to go back to bed.

so, that takes me to 7:30, when i groggily get up, roll out of bed, and into the car. traffic is fine getting out of vancouver, but theres this one tunnel, and as all traffic is going into vancouver in the morning, it left me with one lane, so we got a little backed up. but that wasnt too bad. another 20 min wait at the border, and i was cruising along on my way to seattle. got thru seattle just fine, and right on time for the 11am landing of our ferrets!

and then i waited an hour and a bit till they got to me! but ohh, i was excited! the little guys were wide awake, and starving by the looks of it! so i fed them some treats thru their cage, while i signed some papers.

To the next issue, how to put new newspaper in their cage with them in it? so, i got a box, put them in there, and cleaned out their cage, and gave em new water! then we were ready to go home!

ohh, i learned something about the chocolate, she is not happy about being moved. so, she comped on me. but more on this later!

so, the best road food for a ferret is, Arbys of course. and andrew agrees with this, so i got out of seattle as fast as i could, and pulled over at the first arbys i ran into. i ate, and got them a plain roast beef sandwich. heres a few pictures as i was feeding them. since they had been sleeping, they were pretty calm, until they ate some, then they got rowdy again, so back in the cage!

and, i drove the rest of the way home. border was good, but had to go in and pay tax on them. then, got to the tunnel again at rush hour, but this time, i sat in line for an hour waiting to go thru! this put me into vancouver at 5:30, so no time to go home, had to go pick up noa on the way!

then we got back, got their cage ready, and fed them some more food! they romped, ate some, explored their new home, and then went to bed!

the sable is really calm and relaxed, which is nice. but that chocolate, is really dangerous! she drew blood about 6 times tonight. the ferret breeder thinks is because she had a traumatic experience, and that she will settle down again! i do hope so, for my hands sake.