Misha - Dan had ferrets before and told me he would love to have another some day.  I said "a what?  What's a ferret?"  He told me all his old ferret stories and I still wasn't convinced this was the critter for me.  Then one day he called me and told him to meet him at the pet store.  I thought oh boy, we're getting a puppy because we had been looking at puppies.  I drove up to the pet store and he was waiting outside for me.  We walked in and walked right past the puppies!  What da heck?!  We walked right up to the ferret pen and he said oh no it's gone!  There was a champagne he had his eye on for a few days and by the time he decided to get it, it was gone.  But there was this beautiful little sable there that I fell in love with.  I said what's wrong with this one?  He said nothing, it just wasn't the one I had picked out.  Well, Misha came home with us anyway.  And that was the start of that.  She has been our little matriarch ever since.  Misha is an escape artist.  She is also our smallest, at just 1 lb, 2 oz and has been able to squeeze in tight spots since a baby.  She was the first to find her way out of the J-Feeder.  I can't tell you how long it took us to figure out how she was escaping.  Misha's favorite toy is the molded plastic casings that ink pens come in.  She will hide them from one spot to another all day long.  Misha was a biter as a baby, but with a little work, outgrew it.  She is a total sweetheart now and loves ferretvite so much she trembles when she gets it.

Nathan - Same pet store, here we go again.  I did NOT go looking for ferrets.  I was in there for supplies but just happened by the ferret pen.  There was the most beautiful dark sable that I had ever seen.  I quickly walked away telling myself we don't need another ferret.  I went back...........walked away.  I called Dan so he could remind me why we didn't need another ferret.  He didn't answer.  I took this as a sign.  Nathan came home with me.  Misha and Nester did NOT like Nathan.  They ganged up on him and drug him around like he was a rag doll.  Poor baby boy.  They did eventually work it out and they all got along fine.  Nathan is a sweet little boy, but prone to unprovoked attacks (on me).  He doesn't bite Dan, just me.  I never know when he will do it either.  Other than that, he's almost as sweet as Nester.

Ursulla - Ursulla was a gift for Christmas.  Dan came home holding a cricket box, but there weren't crickets in that box!  She was our first white ferret.  She is the class clown and you can't help but laugh every time you see her.  She has bones of rubber and does this silly twist, turn, roll in her dance.  She is also the most vocal of them all and screams at the top of her lungs if she is just looked at.  For a while she had us running every five minutes to see if she was dying, but we soon caught on.  She is the first to pick on the others, then screams when they pick back.

Canker & Zahar - I was out running errands with a friend and we stopped by the restaurant where Dan was working for lunch.  My friend assured Dan that I would not go home with a ferret (we had to go to the pet store on the errands).  There were two ferrets there.  One was a beautiful black sable with a white undercoat.  Of course I had to have him (Zahar).  Canker was a butterscotch color and since Dan & I had decided not to get any more ferrets unless they were different from what we had already, I could take them both!  That way I could also keep my friend's promise not to take home A ferret.  Zahar was a big boy and still is and bullied Canker around.  Canker was way too young to be sold and we had to clean his behind every day because he couldn't clean it good enough for himself.  We had to seperate them because Canker was not big enough to fend off Zahar's bulliness.  Canker has the crankiest look for a ferret that I have ever seen, so we nicknamed him Cranky Canky.  Zahar loves to be loved on by the humans but still picks on all the other ferrets.  Although Cranky Canky looks cranky, he is actually a very loving little boy.  He also thinks that every single toy has to be picked up in the tubes at the very top of the cage.  He will work all day and night to make sure they are all there.

Taltos - FA and FD were here visiting and FA wanted to see babies.  Off to the pet store we go.  One little boy caught all of our attention.  He was a silver with little white patches on his knees and a spotted nose.  There was something about him that drew us all to him.  Believe it or not we actually left the store without him.  When Dan came home from work that night, we were telling him about the little boy that we couldn't get off our mind.  The next day I asked FA and FD to stop by the store and pick him up on their way here.  While waiting for them to get here, Dan called me from work and said go get him!  LOL, I didn't tell him we had already.  He came in here like he had always been here.  Most ferrets sort of flat ferret and slink their way around sniffing until they get to know the area.  Not him.........he strutted himself around like he had been here all his life.  He was the most rambunctious little baby we had ever brought here, always into something and everything.  He has since turned into a cool little guy, but those first few months were an adventure.

Nicky was my first ferret in 2 1/2 yrs.   In June of 2004, my ferret club was contacted by a woman who had found a little male ferret wandering down her street.  He was starving, dehydrated and full of fleas.  She took him to the vet right away and was told that with plenty of food and water, he would be fine.  She named him Roenick and bought him a 4 story cage as she was planning on keeping him.  Well, she also does dog rescues and always had a few dogs in the house.  She wasn't able to give him a lot of play time because of the dogs and even though she loved him very much, decided to find a home for him with someone who could spend a lot of time with him.  She e-mailed our shelter mom who then put him on our website.  She suggested I take a look at him.  Since I was moving in July, I waited until then.  On July 11th, I went to see Roenick and it was love at first sight.  Shari, his rescue mom, had taken such excellent care of him that he was as healthy as could be.  She said I could have his cage and everything, so he came home with me that day.  I really didn't like his name and felt he should have a new forever name to go with his new forever home.  Not wanting to confuse him, I shortened his name to Nicky.  He must have liked it better, too, cause he responded to it right away!  Nicky is a sable, with a little bow-tie on his chest.  He's about 3 1/2 yrs old and momma's cutie boy.  When he plays, he's quite the little dooker, too.