From:
jsgoldsby@hotmail.com
Date: 2001-11-14 17:50:00 UTC
Subject: Re: strange behavior
Both of my ferrets love plastic bags and it sounds like very similar
behaviors. I think that they love it. I had some leftover chenille
yarn that Sonja just loves. She will belly slide all over it. Both
of mine also love to dig in dirt. Could that be why Pearl likes the
ashtray?
--- In Ferret-Health-list@y..., sptmgmt@h... wrote:
> my silvermitt Pearl, does some of the wierdest stuff. I question
to
> why. first of all she slides around in my husbands ashtray.
slides
> back and forth in the ashtray and will spill the ashes all over and
> will roll in the ashes, filp on her back and just roll.
>
> Is she doing this because she does not like the smell and like
dogs
> will roll in it to get rid of the smell??
>
> also she loves plastic.. plastic bags, and slick materials. She
will
> get in the bag or catalog between to pages, slide back and forth
> while she brings her front paws up to here ears and opens her mouth
> and shakes her head. this expression scared me to death the first
> time i saw it. it is a look of either total ecstasy or tremendous
> pain.
>
> Has anyone ever seen this behavior before?