Hippy is our shelter ferret, rescued from the Key West SPCA.  Someone had left him and his pal in a cage on the street in front of the shelter.    When we first saw them at the shelter,  they were both fat from lying around all day in their cage.  But Hippy was especially fat…monstrous.  In fact, he was so fat we couldn’t stop thinking about him slothing around so we had to rescue him a couple of months later.  His pal got rescued too, by another ferret fanatic here in town.

His name is Hippy because at first he never wanted to play fight our other 2 ferrets.  He would just lay there in a peace position and let them drag him and bite him all day.  Finally he started to fight back and now he’s the strongest play fighter of the group.  But by the time he started living Thug Life, the name had stuck so he’s forever: Hippy.

He lost lots of weight in the first few months, being put through Ferret Boot Camp by Pig and Bun.  But I think he’s just as fat as ever now.  He’s just a big, fat ferret.  Today he slept 13 hours before getting up to play.

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