Good Bye Weazel Babies! :(

This is an extremely hard day for me. I have decided to give my sweet ferrets Lucy & Gizmo away to a new family. I have had these little guys for a year. One crazy Thursday night, David and I went to dinner at a Mexican restaraunt and had a few toooo many margaritas! While buzzing, we discussed the fact that I wanted an animal that I could name "Gizmo", because I thought that was the cutest name ever! Well David, feeling a little loose, decides that we should go to Pet SuperMarket and get ourselves a hampster and name it Gizmo. I thought this was a wonderful idea! We went home, and took a few more shots and headed off to Pet SuperMarket. David used to have a ferret that he loved when he was younger, so we walked over to see the ferrets. I of course decide that the one ferret that is jumping at us really "loves" us and wants us to take it home! David's response: "well he's probably going to get lonely, so we better get 2"! A few hundred dollars later we were on the way home with our 2 new friends "Gizmo & Lucy" and their HUGE ferret home! We eventually regretted this decision after I realized that ferrets are ALOT of work! They poop ALL the time, and EVERYwhere! I loved them so much though. If you have never been around a ferret you just don't know what amazing animals they are! I think we got the best one's ever born! They became 2 of my best friends over this year and I am really,REALLY going to miss them! I'm going to miss the ferret dance they do when you let them out of their cage! I am going to miss finding them curled up asleep in the most random places (my kitchen drawers, my dresser drawers, behind the kitchen cabinets, in a pan, inside the couch!) I am going to miss watching them play with each other and having them follow me everywhere around the house! But most of all I will miss the love they gave me and the love I have for them! One thing I won't miss is the POOP! And that is the reason I have to let them go! I live in a small house which the smell can take over very quickly! I plan on hopefully having kids in the next few years, and I cannot have a baby crawling around on floors where ferrets have gone to the bathroom. I will miss them terribly, but am thankful that I had them in my life at all! I have found a nice family to take them! They have 3 kids who are incredibly excited to meet Lucy & Gizmo, and I hope they have a good rest of their life to come! I love you & will miss you always!

Our New Addition

We have a new addition to our family (zoo)! Her name is Gidget and she is a sweet black lab pup. Someone sent out a MySpace bulletin about some free puppies and I immediately had to have one! After a long hour of negotiating with David, we decided to go get us a puppy! She is very calm and sweet and seems to be very smart! She met the other members of the family, Gizmo & Lucy (our 2 ferrets!) last night and seemed to like them a little more than they like her. Actually the ferrets don’t even really acknowledge that she’s there. They are not scared, they don’t run away, they just keep doing their own thing! Gidget is enthralled with them though, and likes to try to bite their tails! I am a little nervous about her playing with them, but everyone I talk to says that they will be fine, and that she needs to play with them now so that she knows that they are part of the family too.
Gidget is kind of a whiny baby so far, but she is only about 5 weeks old. I feel like a mother with a newborn baby waking up at all hours of the night! David has to remind me not to spoil or “ruin” her by picking her up every time she cries. She LOVES to be held and cuddled. I have a feeling that it’s going to be hard training her, not because she’s stupid, but because I just want to treat her like my little baby!
Here’s to good times & pooping outside of the house! Welcome to the family Gidge!