03/28/2017
Er… Hi. My name is Tsuki (My full name is Yaban Tsuki Kodoto Yeto. In Japanese, it means Savage Moon Black Butterfly Head. It’s a real mouthful, so everyone calls me Tsuki.), and I wanna tell you about an adventure I had with Jack. Jack said that I could write up this story on his page. I’m new to the ferret family, but everyone has made me feel so welcome. Here goes nothing! Hope you enjoy!
I was napping in my cozy bed with Foxey Lola, Wringly the Bandit, and Tucker when my human snatched me up. I tried to twitch into a little ball so I could just go back to sleep, but she just lifted me onto her lap and clipped my black harness on. Those things are really itchy, but I suppose it's for the best. I watched as my human handed Jack to the bigger human, the one who takes the pictures of us all. She clipped his teal harness onto him. That was when I realized: we were going on an adventure. My little human lifted me out of my room and clipped my leash on. I walked along the wooden floor happily, sniffing all the wonderful scents.
We walked to the place the humans call the kitchen, where Luke Cyclone and his friend Riley live. Riley and Luke sniffed at me with their huge wet noses. The picture human and the human who us ferrets like to call the Leg Man were talking. Leg Man said hello to me, then said something to my human. The next thing I knew, I was being put in a special “backpack.” I made it VERY clear that I would not tolerate being put in this bag, but my human COMPLETELY ignored me!
I felt myself being lifted from the ground and carried. I could hear the door opening and smell the rich scents of the great outdoors. I peeped my head out of the bag and, sneakily, wriggled my upper body out of the confines of the bag. My human caught me sneaking out and pushed me back into the backpack; I gave up my escape attempts and curled into the blankets at the bottom of the bag.
We climbed into the car and began our drive. I honestly don’t understand how the car moves, but I suppose it's just human logic. We hadn’t been driving for very long when we stopped and I was placed into a hard plastic kennel with Jack and a blanket. Jack and I talked (this was when he told me I could write this) until the humans came back. When My human came back, she had something that smelled absolutely delicious, but she wouldn’t let me have any. She called them “do-nuts” or something. I was staring and the powdery white things, dreaming about what they would taste like, when a bit of the white powder fell and got in my nose! I panicked and sneezed so hard that I flipped over into Jack. I decided that maaaybe my human was right in not giving me any. That stuff is dangerous!
When we finally arrived at our destination, my human pulled me and Jack out of the carrier and clipped our leashes on. She set me on the ground and tugged on my leash, telling me to follow her. I walked behind her until we got to the edge of the road. She scooped me up and carried me to the trailhead. We walked and walked, drinking in the scenery and, in me and Jack’s case, the scents. I quickly became cold and was bundled back into the backpack. That didn’t last long, though, because the next thing I knew, I was being plopped down on the bank of an ice-cold stream! Oh, it was cold! It sent shivers right to the tip of my tail. I enjoyed it though, and swam around in a deeper section before retreating to the bag to dry off.
We soon reached a path that curved up a snowy hill. My human stumbled and fell on a patch of ice, pushing me away from her rapidly falling figure. I blinked up at her, surprised. She scooped me up and made sure I was alright before putting me in the warm blankets in my bag. I curled into a ball and closed my eyes, letting the rhythmic gait of my human lull me to sleep. I don’t know how long I was asleep, but it felt like almost five minutes had passed when the bag was set down on the ground with a thump. I hissed quietly to show my displeasure, then curled tighter and dozed. After only ten minutes I was taken from the bag by the picture human. She took me to a rocky outlook and took my picture-fifty times. I was still half asleep at that point, but I quickly woke up. When the picture human picked me up and carried me back towards my human, I saw Jack licking her nose! Backoff, buddy, I thought. She’s my human, so only I get to lick her nose. My human took me from the picture human and petted me; I was relieved that she didn’t forget to give me love, too.
We turned around on the trail, having reached the end of our adventure, and headed back toward the car. I was just about to fall asleep when the humans woke me up for another swim as we crossed the stream again. I dove right in, but immediately swam for shore. I was so cold, my toes turned bright red! My human had the sense to put me back into my warm bag. When we got to the parking lot, my humans walked right past the car! We went over to some yellow grass-like stuff called “straw.” I don’t see why it’s called that, though. There’s no way you could drink out of it! It was incredibly fun to dig in, though. After I dug around for awhile, we finally got into the car and drove home.
~Tsuki the Ferret
