From:
oheapame@isu.edu
Date: 2001-11-14 18:32:00 UTC
Subject: Re: [Ferret-Health-list] Re: strange behavior
Mine love ashtrays too. My husband smokes, and if he leaves the
ashtray on a table they can get to, it's flipped onto the floor. they
aren't big on slick stuff, they like crinkly-noisy stuff, but go nuts
when they get to it.
pamo
> --- 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?