Closeup of Bun

This is Bun, who’s about a year old.  Bun doesn’t live in a cage and he lives with two other ferrets who also roam free inside our apartment.  Point is, he’s very active, curious, and hardly ever sits still, and he’s very in tune with every single movement I and my boyfriend make.  Any new sound, and he’s there to investigate.  I crouch down to his level (e.g. for this picture), and he trots over to see what I’m up to.

To ferrets, small mechanical noises represent awesome potential for discovery and mischief.  The inner workings of my Canon Rebel Xsi produce tiny sounds that will draw a ferret away from whatever he or she is doing, finding the potential for discovery simply irresistible.

That’s what Bun is doing.   He was actually very involved in trying to catch wooden beads that were swinging at the end of the cord to the venetian blinds.  But the camera sounds made him drop everything and rush over, coming up to the point where my camera had trouble focusing on everything.

And that is why it’s very hard to capture a ferret on camera and have the picture come out clear and sharp.  And using the flash, well let’s just say using the flash in a dark ferret corner means you will have pictures of what look like opossums.