Her plan was to give the bird to her little boys. My conscience panged a little when I handed the cage over. A few days later, she regretfully announced that Sam had escaped. I bet he's hanging out with Snowball someplace. Then came the ferret fiasco.
Ferrets are weasels.
Weasels like to hide and make total pests of themselves. For example, if you cover your entire bathroom floor with newspaper, the ferret will scratch a hole through it and do its business right in that spot. They are uncooperative and if they don't like you they'll chase you around and bite at your heels. This ferret didn't like me. After three days of trying to get away from it and learning to live with the smell, I traded it in for an aquarium.