Hat tip? IIRC he’s the one who tipped his hat to Sophie and said “Ma’am” in 03 March comic, but we haven’t seen much of him — possibly he was the one who was upside down talking about Wesley.
While it would be fun to have the ferrets added to the cast, I sort of hope they were adopted out. It would allow for a clean break between Sophie and Wesley, allowing Gutter to have a chance. That and tension between exes is not my ideas of fun, and like Robin, I believe that the relationship between Sophie and Wesley is doomed.
When I volunteered actively in animal rescue, my rescue had a deal with a local pet store — they took a part of their storeroom and built an airlock, the rescue added a ton of fun kitty furniture (and litterboxes, hidden tastefully within some of the kitty furniture) and would put the kitties in on a rotating basis (those kitties not currently in Kitty City lived with foster families).
The pet store had a cage with one or two ferrets in the airlock, and the woman who organized Kitty City would, when volunteers were present, put the ferrets in with the cats. They got along wonderfully with the kittens, and the biggest danger was that the adult cats would try to scruff the ferrets which, unfortunately, could easily snap their spines. None of the adult cats ever attacked the ferrets (though some did groom them), the ferrets got socialized, and the volunteers got to play with the felines and the ferrets. (Could that be a good band name?)
Given that this is Iggy we’re dealing with, food probably isn’t the motivation.