A bit of fun

[Lazy-Ferret]

As some of you know, we have pet ferrets, who are all rescues. During the year, we help our local ferret rescue with their fund raising events. One task that seems to have fallen on us over the years is when they put on a ferret show, as a way of breaking the boredom of the people just sitting there waiting for their ferrets numbers to be called, we put on some fun classes to keep them entertained.

These involve getting people talking to each other, by having to go round the hall and meet the other ferrets, and then vote for things like "the ferret with the fluffiest coat", "the ferret most people would like to take home", and other things like that... We also have a race with play offs, which because of space limitations needed to be a bit more inventive than the more normal running down pipes associated with ferrets... This year we went for getting tall Christmas bags, the ones that open out and actually stand up on their own, putting a ferret in them, and then seeing whose ferret was the first to get the bag to fall over and get out.



It's simple but it gets the competitive spirit going.



One of the other things is to get people to decorate their cages, and this year we went for turning the cage into a Reindeer...







The nose glows red, and all the outline is edged with silver glowing EL wire.

I also made Ferret Hammock Beds to go along with the bags of ferret food as prizes for each class. These are the softest fluffy fleece on the inside, and cotton on the outside, here's a sample.









Our classes raised over £120 for the rescue, so we were very pleased.

As part of our 4x4 Response group, over the month of December we are helping another charity by using our 4x4's to pull Santa's Sleigh. Suz and I are doing a couple of nights, so the Reindeer head will be going on the front of my car, along with the the usual decorations I put on her.