and BAM! Howard Wolowitz

[Louise]

I don't know where I first got this idea about Howard & ferrets, but I'm pleased that it's become a part of HQ mythology

I think it's because I'm an animal-lover and I want all the characters to have pets.
(the REAL characters, that is. Not the ones who would dissect them or give them diseases!!!)

I think it started when my friend and I went to this funny little indoor petting-zoo here in Busan, and they had white ferrets, and I got to hold one of them. I'd always been told that they stink and they don't really make good pets, but this one was okay-ish.

I just love this idea of Howard having a pet ferret and carrying it around in his messenger bag

I still think Raj would be more of a cat person than a dog person. And maybe Sheldon would have a hundred-year-old tortoise from the Galapagos, or something unusual like a fruit bat or a marsupial of some kind, like a sugar-glider.

Also, there is somebody on FF.net whose screenname is Wolowombat, and I think that's freaking adorable...