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What makes a ferrets skin dry?

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Anonymous

15y ago
Updated: 8/18/2019

Bathing strips the oils from their skin - Ferrets do not necessarily need baths - if you choose to bathe ferrets it should be no more that 2 times a year.

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if you bath it to much it takes the moisture from its skin plus the more you wash it the more it will smell

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