A ferret could possibly lose their sense of smell from an illness.
No, you do not lose your sense of smell during sleep. Your sense of smell continues to function while you are asleep, although it may not be as active as when you are awake.
Smell
When you lose your sense of smell you begin to lose taste too. This happens because a large portion of your taste comes from smell.
The sense of smell is generally lost between ages 70-80. Also, it must be noted that it will be lost but not by some.
Their sense of smell.. Ferret do not see particularly well, and often hunt underground where it's dark. Many ferrets have actually become blind without their owners realizing it until they moved some furniture and saw the ferret running right into it. Having a blind ferret should be fine, since they use their sense of smell, whiskers and hearing so much
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Think about when you get a stuffy nose. When you lose your sense of smell it impairs your sense of taste.
If you lose your sense of smell your sense of taste generally goes with it, since the two senses are closely linked.
To keep your blind and deaf ferret from biting, approach him slowly as not to startle him (if that's what making him bite) . He has a keen sense of smell, let him smell as you slowly approach him. An alternative would be to use a product called "bitter apple"
The black footed ferret's large ears and eyes suggest it has acute hearing and sight, but smell is probably its most important sense for hunting prey underground in the dark.