The adventurous life of Tomic the Ferret

plants

Tomic the ferret

Here comes Tomic!

Tomic spies Gran's expensive new pot plant

Arp! Arp! he goes. What's this? What's this here? he goes, snuffling his nose in Gran's expensive new pot plant.

Tomic scrabbles the earth out the pot

(sniff) (sniff) (tchtchtch!) Smells interesting. In a second Tomic is up on the pot plant. Some treasure buried here, he chatters, something under these tasty leaves. Tomic scrabbles in the mud and before you can eat a biscuit there's a pile of earth on the carpet behind him.

Tomic hides the plant's tasty leaves behind the sofa

Tomic snuffles right into the plant. (tchtchtch!) Yummy leaves! he says, and before you can flip over a takkie Tomic's off, stashing the leaves behind the sofa.

So many leaves!

So many leaves! So many leaves! Which one's for me? (picture).

The shredded plant goes everywhere

Oh no! The plant is destroyed.

Tomic goes left and right, litterings Gran's carpet in shredded leaves. What's that? What's that? Didn't find the buried treasure.... (tchtchtch!) Tomic runs to the pot another look.

Tomic, is that you? Footsteps. What you up to? Gran is coming down the stairs.

Tomic knocks the pot over and spills even more soil

(tchtchtch!) There's that big-footed woman again. Hide! Hide! Tomic runs off, knocking the pot over and spilling more mud on the floor. Gran is cross. What a mess you've made, ferret, says Gran where's my expensive plant gone? But Tomic vanishes.

Arp!