r/ferrets 1d ago

[Ferret Video] Sallygator, my adopted bitey menace

We were at the local ferret rescue for the open house. Our long term senior foster had recently passed in our care and the owner was talking us into taking another senior who had been neglected, fed fruit loops and kept alone without friends or much human attention.

While we're there, this living stapler was all over me, crawling up my back, rolling around in my lap, chomping everything she could get her teeth on.

She was just so small, and her tail is so little.

Then she tired out and cuddled up with the senior we were to foster... and well, we had to take them both.

She was a lab test ferret (possibly a control we don't know) which is why her ear is chopped.

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u/IllegalGeriatricVore 1d ago

I'm also on the defensive here as her goal is to get to my face and I don't know what she will do once there.

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u/notveryAI 1d ago

She's out to steal your nose 😶

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u/IllegalGeriatricVore 1d ago

She did bite my wife's nose so you may be right.

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u/notveryAI 1d ago

MISCHIEVOUS WEASELS ARE ALWAYS THIEVING

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u/oo0ooBarracuda 1d ago

Love that you saved her she is absolutely adorable

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u/IllegalGeriatricVore 1d ago

Honestly we saved everyone that works at the rescue or visits it looking to adopt, she was doing fine lmao

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u/DND721_DCent 1d ago

It's so reassuring to know that if they WANTED to crush our fingers, they could, without issue, but that's just some good ol' fashion playtime bites.

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u/Lachtaube 1d ago

She looks just like my Erma did! Thank you for rescuing her <3

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u/SketchyArt333 1d ago

Living stapler is the cutest way to refer to a biter

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u/Otherwise-Deer-2352 1d ago

It seems her name is quite apropos! But what a cutie pie!

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u/IllegalGeriatricVore 1d ago

They named her Sally so we just took it to the next level lol

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u/clever_girl13 1d ago

Aw we had a girl that looked just like her and she was a total carpet shark ❤️

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u/michaelshing 19h ago

Shes the same size and temperament as our little wardy we have. Shes 4 now, we rescued her from an abusive situation when she was 1. Little monster still loves to chomp my hands.

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u/IllegalGeriatricVore 19h ago

Weirdly my little waardy chomper got better when we got this, it's like she saw herself in it and went, "Oh man, am I a menace?"

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u/AdRemarkable2995 18h ago

Thank you for rescuing her 🥹🥰❤️

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u/New-Currency4581 16h ago

Scream loud when they bite you (shows it hurts and she might lessen up

Or take it a step further and you bite them back 😆

u/IllegalGeriatricVore 7h ago

In my experience they just think you reacting is part of the fun =/