A little over a year ago Jakob and I went into the pet store to pick up some fish food and we came home with a ferret.

I don’t know how it happened but it did. Jakob’s dad was not the happiest person in the world when he got a call at work telling him about our new pet. But a whole year has gone by and Brody-O McMurphy (started off as just Brody but someone… Jake added to it).

When we tell people that we have a ferret we all kinds of different reactions. “Ewww, don’t they stink” or “Why?” or “Aren’t those like rats?”. We figured we would tell you a few things about our ferret.

• His coat has a slight musky smell – (which I don’t find offensive). If you clean the cage the way you are supposed to then his bedding doesn’t smell and therefor you won’t have a ferret smell in the room.
• Our ferret is litter trained – There is a litter pan in his cage which he uses (most of the time, sometimes he misses but gets the general area right). We very, very, very rarely have an accident outside of the cage. Our ferret knows that he has to use the litter pan before we will open his cage so it is just part of the routine now.
• He comes when he is called – I’m serious. If he is somewhere in the living room that I can’t see I start calling him (not by Brody-o… I just say ferret) and sure enough he’ll poke his head out from wherever he was and head on over to me
• He loves Jakob – he and Jakob play chase, hide and seek, and play with his ball. This ferret loves his boy. So much so that when Jakob goes into the bathroom with the door shut the ferret just lays down in front of the door waiting for him to come out.

Our ferret fits right in with our family. He has the perfect disposition for dealing with Jake… meaning Jake does whatever he likes to the ferret like carrying him around in a bag or sticking him under his shirt and the ferret never has a bad reaction to it.

Jakob loves his ferret and the ferret loves his boy.