Ferrets in Snow

So, I took 4 of the 6 out in the snow this afternoon. Smithy, David, Thomas and Barry. Lou is currently waaay too thin and being the old lady that she is she doesn't really like the cold that much. Fred while fat and fully winter-coated is also tiny and as it was just me I didn't want to risk losing him.

All images are clickable thumbnails.

This is the snow we (well, they, I was in the backdoorway) were in:




Barry says 'allo' from by the hutch (it's propped like that to keep water from gathering on the roof and rot working into the base. No creature is living in it, it's just an emergency hutch incase I'm handed a stray that needs quarantine.



Blurry Barry and Thomas humongous bottle-brush tail (they fluff their tails when in an extreme emotion so excited or scared. In this case they were really excited)



Barry in his favourite plant. I don't know why but he really loves that plant, snow or no.




A damp, happy David. He was the first to come in and proceeded to play in a plastic bag in the living room.




Smithy in the snow







Wet Smithy. He slugged over that towel and then went to wreck the living room.



You see that curved track? As soon as Smithy went out he flattened to the ground and made that. Nutter.




Blurry Thomas



Thomas' Bottle brush



Considering coming out




Looking decidedly unimpressed




He may be an albino but he's far from white. He had really oily skin over the summer and now he's growing in his winter coat the oils are staining it yellow and orange.




this is what happens when you leave water to freeze in a bowl.



In a washing-up bowl it does this:


I hope you enjoyed.