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Care of Ferrets
Ferrets were first tamed by the Ancient Egyptians for food and clothing. Today, they are playful weasel-like companions that depend on us for love! This category contains questions about ferret health, history, and needs.
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What is the best place to shop for a guinea pig or ferret supplies?
If you want more expensive brands of food and other supplies, go to petsmart, but if you want the cheaper brands of that stuff, go to walmart. Both places have everything you need for your guinea pig or ferret from water bottles and food to all sizes of packages of pine and cedar bedding.
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You need to ask your question in a complete sentence. In other words, what do you want to KNOW about backwash in bottled drinks?
Yes, honey can be bad for ferrets as they are strict carnivores and cannot process carbohydrates. Too much sugar in a ferrets diet can cause them to have insulinoma, in which honey can be used if they have a seizure
How do you know if a ferret likes another ferret?
Yes ferrets are social animals and as you should keep two as they're very active and a play mate will drain their energy
There's no way of guaranteeing that one ferret will like another ferret. However, there are certain steps that will make it more likely.
Introduce the new ferret through the bars of the existing ferret's cage - let them sniff one another. If you have two cages, keep the new ferret in a separate cage for a few days, then swap the bedding in each cage with the bedding from the other - this almost always works.
Each ferret has it's own personality (and whether they have been altered) - Baby ferrets take to other ferrets very easily, older ferrets that have never been around other ferrets - it may take time for them to adjust, some may never accept another ferret. Ferrets that have not been altered (or fixed, neutered, spayed) when in season or heat, the males will fight.
FERRETING - For hundreds of years the main use of ferrets was for hunting rabbits, called ferreting. Because of their long, lean build and natural instinct for digging and burrowing, they are very well equipped for getting down holes and chasing rabbits or other rodents out of their nests. They are still used for hunting in some countries, in the United Kingdom, Scotland and Australia, where rabbits are a plague species and, despite the availability of of modern technology, the combination of a few nets and a ferret or two remains very effective. In Portugal and in the U S, ferreting has been made illegal.
Are ferrets bought in pet shops spayed or neutered already?
Most all ferrets bought from pet stores or adopted from pet shelters, in the United States will be neutered. The largest breeder of ferrets in the US - Marshall Farms will have two blue tattoo dots on the ears indicating it has been neutered. Private breeders usually will not sell a ferret without the agreement that you have the ferret neutered.
What do you have to do to become a person who takes out babies?
You definitly have to go to collage. But if you want to become this kind of nurse you need lots of training and collage. As soon as you do this you can become a nurse kind of like my big sis. She is going to this kind of collage but she is becoming a regular nurse.
Is Aleutian disease virus in ferrets contagious to others and will they eventually die?
It is possible for ferrets to be infected for years with ADV before any clinical signs are observed.
Aleutian disease virus is a highly contagious parvovirus that can easily spread through feces, urine, saliva and other body fluids eventually causing death in ferrets, but it also lie dormant in dried urine or on an owner's clothes and shoes for up to two years. Humans can spread ADV through casual contact with multiple ferrets from from ferret shows and shelters. ADV positive ferrets should be isolated as suspected carriers of the disease and should not be taken to places where they may come in contact with other ferrets. They also should not be allowed to run on floors or other areas where uninfected ferrets or their owners may come in contact with residual traces of the virus from the infected animals.
Ferrets may contract the virus but never develop clinical signs of ADV. An ADV positive ferret, that appears clinically normal, has the potential to shed the virus at anytime.There is no accurate way of determining if or when a ferret that has been exposed to ADV will develop disease. No prediction can be made as to the severity or type of clinical signs that may be manifested. It is important to note that historically the majority of ferrets that have been exposed to ADV never developed obvious clinical signs of the disease. Some ferrets may be carriers of the virus for years before developing clinical signs. Some ferrets may even revert to a "negative" ADV status based on blood testing after a period of time. 10 It is wrong to make the assumption that a clinically normal ferret that is positive on testing for ADV will automatically die from this disease at some time. Source: veterinarypartner.com
The Aleutian disease virus lays dormant in ferrets until stress or injury allows it to surface. While the parvovirus itself causes little or no harm to the ferret host, the large number of antibodies produced in response to the presence of the virus results in a systemic vasculitis, resulting in eventual renal failure, bone marrow suppression and death. The symptoms are chronic, progressive weight loss, lethargy, hepatomegaly and/or enlarged spleen, anemia, rear leg weakness, seizures and black tarry stool. Once symptoms show themselves, the disease progresses rapidly, usually to death within a few months.
Source: wikipedia
How much would one expect to pay for a ferret finder?
Ferret finders are not cheap, there price-tag varies between $150,- and $450,-. But they are most cost effective and reliable. If you look for cheap ones, you have to take a look on eBay or Amazon. The more expansive ones are purchased at the local hunting store (if there is one in your region)
What is easier to take care of a hedgehog or ferret?
Hedgehogs are a low maintenance pets, as ferrets are high maintenance pets.
All baby ferrets nip (like all animal when teething), especially when playing with other ferrets. As they can tend to nip humans as well and have very sharp teeth, it's important to socialize by teaching them not too. When a ferrets nip you, scruff him, tell him "no' in an exaggerated voice and hold for a minute. Scruffing is how the mom ferret disciplines her babies. Never hit or flick your ferret's nose
How many ferrets should you get?
It really depends on how many cages you have , how much money you want to spend on them, and how much time you want to spend with them. for every cage you have = how many hamsters you can get exept for if they are brothers or sisters under 3 weeks Hamsters will be best alone never put a girl & boy together unless you want babies and never put the same sex in the same cage unless you want one of them to die
Are ferrets legill in sacromnteo?
No, the State of California does not allow ferrets to be kept as household pets.
Why do ferrets act weird when a new one is introduced into its cage?
What do you mean by "weird?" Ferrets have a pecking order, much like dogs. If you have multiple ferrets and you introduce a new one, the dominant ferret and the new ferret will likely "wrestle" for dominance. If you introduce a new ferret to an older ferret who is not used to having company in his cage then the older ferret just may reject the new ferret altogether. Or it may just take him a while to warm up to having a new playmate.
Who is the cousin of a weasel?
Some cousins to the weasel include:
- Minks
- Otters
- Ferrets
- Fisher
- Martens
- Mustelidae
