ferrets

This adorable little ferret is named Smokey. She wouldn’t sit behind the covered box. She wouldn’t sit on top of the covered box. Smokey had places to go and people to see. If you look closely, her tail is poised for jumping and she’s sliding half off the front of the box.

If you look closely at her mouth, she had just shut her mouth from a nice, big lick of Ferretone. I’ve gotten some really funny-looking faces on ferrets in mid-lick. Some include incredibly long tongues, others look like the ferret is making faces at me.

All ferrets are hard to photograph; some are more hard than others. I usually end up taking between 5 and 15 photos of a single ferret, just to try to be sure and get a good one. The odd thing is that sometimes I can’t tell if I’ve gotten a good shot until I look at them on the computer. Sometimes even the LCD screen isn’t enough.

There have been many times when I’ve been reviewing the photos later, only to laugh out loud from a hilarious expression I’d missed on the camera’s LCD screen.

It’s sometimes frustrating, and it’s certainly a lot of work, but when you get a good shot, suddenly all the time and effort is worth it.