WONKYQUANTUM
Please enjoy these videos of the ferrets Fifi and Leon. There are many hours - 50 or more in total, i shall upload most by New Year 2022 wonkyquantum
Free mindfulness.
Watching them in person is the most mindful thing I know. I hope that can come over in the video watching experience.
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And what a pain - plans to get the rest of the film covering one period of time onto Youtube yesterday - takes ages with rural speeds. So I am all set up - the day planned to be at better internet connection places, and then it says there is a daily upload limit, though as usual with this tech doesn't say what it is....best laid plans...
I don't like to let people down and tried to speak with quite a few people face to face the last few days and tell them about some of the film coming up, i did my best.....all day 24 Dec trying to figure the problem.
Dedication to the 'operation' = sat high up in the hills Christmas morning since 5am, by the wonderful Spaceguard Centre, where there is better upload signal. Maybe it will work out today.
Just to be crystal clear about one thing, I don't really believe in pushing or promoting any site or content. If it is meant to be, someone will take a liking to the films and organically off their own bat spread the site ... and if it is not meant to be, that will not be the case.
you will see them come along in splurges there...... It all depends on which way the phone signal blows (no broadband, upload via the smartie only)
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You will then get automatic notifications of new splurges of film, thank you.
Sorry to blow my own trumpet but about all I have going for
me is I never moan. I have had a few challenges the last five years - that’s
life... all of life’s hurdles and even abysses accepted.... walking the hills
and watching the ferrets for hours on end is what keeps me ....well.......always
happy. No matter what. But maybe just maybe watching the ferrets has the edge.
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Maybe we will find someone with lots of time on their hands who will enjoy watching through the film and take part in making something of it all. I know there are, especially later on, some really lovely shots... but i think it is maybe best to start at the beginning (post # 1 below or use the playlists). That way you get to know the ferrets. Every ferret is very different in character and habits.
The objective though is that I have never really had time to watch myself and see if anything really interesting happens. For example in this film in this post where i repeat day #21, towards the end of the clip the robin comes along to as usual try and steal the food. How long does it wait until the coast is clear of ferrets? Are there patterns in the robin's behaviour that are interesting? Do the ferrets chase off the robin? I would love help figuring anything interesting in the behaviour of the robin and the ferrets. And as i say, are there funny reactions from the ferrets? There have been some days - later in this year, when a couple of robins have been thieving the food. Is it usually the same robin? If so is it training an offspring?
And there will be a couple more - I have to sort a lot of film.
I will keep it as simple as possible: I have a load of film
in sequence from 2018. Those will be loaded up with a number for each film and each number is
all the film clips from one day edited
into one youtube film. I won't have time to edit at all yet other than that.
Then there are a few
dozen films taken over a period of winter 2020/21 with a partly broken camera that had lost its auto date
setting and i have to work out when they were, and if it matters to the sequence
..
Then there are many hours filmed in 2021 from February and i
even upgraded my phone - or rather at
last ditched the simply joke of a phone the Huawei, and got a Samsung, and flip
the camera on that is good. So they get better as time progresses. And later on I made an effort to try and capture some interesting moments as they were happening.
All the rest will be gradually uploaded from around the 25th December 2021.
Now, there are a couple of dramas along the line. I don’t
know what to do about them – show them, tell the story? One may have your heart in your mouth; it did mine.
I say that because it is just the daily life of these crits
so living in the moment that seems the antidote to any drama.
And then covid came along; well, I live in the middle of nowhere
so frankly it made little difference. However the first few weeks i was very
worried for one simple reason.... we all appeared likely to die according to the news; so few seem able to cope with or accept
looking after ferrets these days. Twenty years ago many in rural areas would have a cage of ferrets but no more - everyone says they no longer have the time. I lived by a small isolated hamlet and 20
years ago i would have found a few people in such places who would be able to
give backup – be able to feed and clean if something went wrong in my life.....
nowadays I don’t think anyone has the patience or ability to take care of them.
Ferrets are so easy to keep, however there is one small issue always – their
name is from Latin furari to steal, however they would be just as aptly named
effugere: the escape artist!.... they can escape from anywhere...and my how they love to look for weak points in a pen. That means no
matter what, when feeding or cleaning, you have to treble check that the pen
doors are extremely secure each time in and out. If they do escape then they
love to go on very long rambles, and not being raised to hunt for themselves
they will usually eventually starve to death. So, ‘animals first’ means when you are
looking after them, whatever happens – a call comes in on your mobile with some
drama announced, or the kids are doing
something needing the parent, you double check the ferrets are secure first
before getting into the human dramas. Or the crits die...
Oh that reminds me......
I had entirely forgotten :-)
I have one rather special film from earlier this year ..... where a certain
old man ferret was caught really really ruining my day!
To be found at some point... I couldn't believe what i was seeing
Please share on your facebooks or whatever you use. I don’t
use any of it.
Any questions you can use the contact form which comes into my
old fashioned email.
repeat of post #21 as example: THE ROBIN LURKS....
in this film towards the end the robin comes in to case the joint and see if it is safe to steal the food!
And many other films have the robins being rather cheeky....
There is another mission I would like to attempt which is just get more people familiar with them. They are a great animal for children to learn from.
For obvious reasons - the possibility of a nip, children learn to respect them as they handle them. But also, and maybe this is the best thing in ownership, their behaviour is very much affected by the way are handled and treated. A scratch from a rabbit or Guinea pig may not be entirely predictable, however with a ferret I have seen many children pick up quickly the way of handling them and being with them that ensures no nips or scratches. You learn their ways and boundaries easily.
THIS SITE IS A WORK IN PROGRESS. It will be improved and nicely designed over Christmas holidays 2021
Where I live the broadband and mobile phone signal has always been dire... hahh hahh it has been the bane of life since mobile phones and then the internet were invented. It becomes quite a mindful experience balancing mobile phones high up in windows to get a ferret's whisker of a phone signal. And broadband has always been a random event. In fact signal in the area became even worse when in 2020 lots of people moved in to the area from the cities - running away from restrictions and pestilence. Most of these richer people i guess have several mobile phones, or internet savvy fridges, and it has been really noticeable how our poor rural fringe signal has depleted. So the only way I can use the internet is to trundle out very early - the mobile signal is always much better before 8am, and upload film via mobile phone connection. I have to go out because only a few spots within my region have laybys where there is half decent upload speed.
But I am used to this way over many years. It just takes careful habits - making sure things are charged before I set to work, etc.. Thermos flask filled. Breakfast in my pack.
This is a quick first draft write up which will be improved over Christmas 2021
From 2018 I began filming my two ferrets, Fifi and Leon, from my kitchen window. Well, that is after spending many an hour just watching them going about their day. You may agree it is a rather zen sight. I like it!
In 2018 there wasa third ferret, Roxy, Fifi and Leon's daughter. She was given away that year to a family with a ferret that lived alone. As you will discover if you watch the videos ferrets very much enjoy company - even if at times it can involve a lot of playful scrapping. Fron late 2018 t was just mum and dad left alone.
I am a fifty something chap and in 2018 I was recovering from a few years of a rather debilitating viral attack - some kind of infestation of my upper airways and brain box by some clever little bugs that medical science couldn't quite pin down. They had floored me for a few years up to 2018. I don't mind, - nature will do her thing. It was an excellent reminder of just how insignificant the human animal can be. Up to that point in life my health had been absolutely tip top always.
As a result of a few years mouldering away on the sofa largely unable to work, cash had become rather tight. I noticed over a few days at some point in 2018 that the robin, or possibly robins (help me know if there were one or more!), had learned to work out when it was safe to enter the place which I had for years routinely left the feed bowl. The rascal was stealing ferret food which i frankly couldn't afford to share with the robin.
For various innocent reasons i haven't had much time spare over the last few years to watch the film i would take. And i wonder if anyone would like to help by watching through the many hours and letting me know if anything interesting happens.
This is all suitable for children. I have only ever left the camera running when no one else is in my kitchen and there is no filming of anything else.
Forgive my amateur videos - I generally have over a day filmed every few hours for 5 or 10 minutes at a time. Footage from each day is edited into one whole episode, no fancy production values though. Only today have i first used Shotcut video editor to edit the shorter segments onto one longer file. I may have got it wrong.
I shall write up a little more about the life of a ferret soon.
I doubt I shall even have one viewer to the channel called wonkyquantum (ONE word) on youtube and i don't know how the system works really. I guess i shall learn over time.
The filming started in 2018 with a very basic camera. There was a break and then by 2021 i had very much revved up and also the arrangement on feeding I changed.
Enjoy.
Here is the channel on Youtube videos being uploaded regularly from 20 Dec 2021
Please share this webpage and the Youtube channel - i don't do social media myself.
I think Fifi and Leon would like an audience. They're a bit like that.
If you are interested in ferrets i shall put a page here on tips for you. Fifi and Leon are the last in a long line of ferrets my daughter and I bred from the early 00s. Sometimes we would have up to 15 running around the house at once.
I call it wonkyquantum for a few reasons but the primary one is that robins navigate the world by quantum entanglement. We can't do that.... I wonder what ese they can do, we can't?
wonkyquantum ferret vs robin #1
As these near five years proceed there are a few rather poignant stories that perhaps will come through in time. Keep checking back here. You may find something rather interesting soon
