My grandad had whippets terriers and ferrets all his life till about 4 years ago when he wasnt capable to look after them no more. When my dad was a young lad my grandad had jobs as a steel a rector working away in the likes of japan for months on end my dad got left with the dogs and ferrets he sed he hated every secound of it after that never had a dog till i nagged him that much to get 1 as a young lad