Random Thoughts.....What Are You Thinking?

The last experience with one, ended up with me having to give it to someone else. I'm still not really over it, but that little dog drove my wife crazy, and me to an extent.. It chewed on everything, and would not stop shitting on the floor, nearly every morning when wife got up for work, she'd step in a cold pile of ***.. Then I'd have to wake up to clean it up, and find at least 3-4 other surprises on the floor..

I just can't get up often enough to take them out. It's not physically possible, so there's going to be ***on the floor. This particular dog chewed a hole through our box spring and was tearing out the insides, and he also chewed up 100's of dollars worth of the electronics.. I really wanted a mini doberman, but settled on a chihuahua. I still miss and love him deeply.. The tag I made for him right after I got him, at one of those engraving stations giving his name and my number and reward if found, I still carry on my key ring, and I only keep two pictures in my wallet, one is of him. But after months I wasn't able to even slightly curb his habits, and I had to give him up.

I had already been bugging my wife saying I wanted a pet, and then through the miracle of wiki I jumped from article to article, til I somehow came the layout of a ferret's teeth.. Then I started reading on them.. Then I watched a bunch of videos on youtube, and went to sleep, 2 days later, the thought of a ferret being a good candidate for a pet was still running through my head, and I looked into it a bit more, and watched more videos.. After time to absorb what I'd read/saw, I finally declared I wanted a ferret, and it was going to be one of those things I wasn't going to be able to let go of.. The next day, or maybe the day after, I spent literally 6 hours just reading up on them on all kinds of different sites, I wanted to know exactly what to expect.. None of it changed my mind, everything I read, I liked. They're extremely smart, they have a sweet/loyal side like a dog, but the playfulness of a cat, they can be trained to go in a litter box (and a month later, both of mine are litter box trained, they won't ever maintain 100% accuracy, but the messes are very few and far in between, and they're never in the middle of the floor, due to a quirk in their instinct, they only go in corners. More so, they have virtually no smell at all, as long as you do not feed them foods made with fish.) the perfect pet for me.. And I don't regret at all getting them, every other pet I've had, within a month I regretted at least part of it.. (I've had a LOT at one point when I was really young, I had 20+ pets, not including fish) there was some behavior or problem that made me rethink why I decided to get them in the first place.. Not with my ferrets..