It reminds me that you have to always be aware of your ferrets... ALWAYS!!! Always aware of what they are doing, where they are going and what they are getting into. And what is going on in the world around them.
This incident that about took my little heart out happened on Sunday. I took my lovely little girl out on her leash and walked her about. I have found she loves to walk around the building and I love to walk her. Mind you it is not at all like a dog, she does not pull on the leash and walk ahead of me. I kind of have to lead her.
But she loves it.
Well she had a couple of areas where whenever she walks through them, nose to the ground, her tail gets all big and bottle brushed, it literally looks like a bottle brush. But I normally let it go. Well Sunday I had made it back to the back of the house and was talking to my roommate through the open slider while I let her corgi Jake out, standing on our cement patio. I was holding my little Chavi up on my shoulder with her looking over the back.
Suddenly she launched herself off my shoulder flinging herself to the side. I reached to catch her and managed to part of the way down but she now was panicked and twisted herself back around to continue to fall. I just barely managed to get a hold of her before she hit the patio. Pulling her to my chest I found she had wiggled out of the top half of her harness and was panicking still. I went into the house and tried to get the harness the rest of the way off. But she was still panicking so I went upstairs and sat in our room a moment letting her calm down as I took it off. She stayed huddled to me for a little bit before I put her down and she trundled off to find water and food.
It wouldn't have been as scary for me if I had not been standing on the cement patio. If she had hit it from my little five foot plus height I would have been going to the animal emergency vet just to have her checked out.
So, always always always be aware of you baby. You never know what they see or smell that can cause a panicked reaction.
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