Care of Ferrets

Since ferrets are obligate carnivores, they require meat in their diets.

Small prey, such as mice and rabbits, most closely match their natural diet in the wild, and some owners feed this to their ferrets.

However, when this is not available, high-quality cat food most consisting of meat can be substituted.

Any kind of non-clumping, clay-free litter will work just fine. Check your pet store for "Critter Litter" a brand made just for Ferrets and other small animals. It's made of recycled newspaper pellets and special odor absorbers.

Yesterdays News is also good and cheaper than Marshall litter, which is the same thing.

Worlds Best cat litter is amazing at odor control but expensive.

I now use woodstove pellets, I can get a 40lb bag for $5

Yes. Ferrets have fast metabolisms and need to eat about every 3 hours. It is best to leave food out 24/7

No, ferrets will not use a litter box with a lot of feces in it, they prefer a clean litter pan. And you cannot use the same litter for cats that you can for ferrets. Use litter specially made for ferrets, which cost more. With a cat, you can use cheap clay litter which cannot be used for ferrets, so it make better sense to have separate litter pans from other contributors:

Not really...ferrets insist on corners, and do much better when the front end (i.e. side of a corner without a wall) is at floor level - they poop, then scoot a few inches and use the floor as toilet paper.

However, because of their insistence to dig and the fact that many types of litter can harm their eyes (anything with crystals in it...and of course, using cat litter without crystals is a smelly pain...also, clumping litter is a HUGE no no since it'll stick to them and they'll ingest it - not good for their narrow digestive tracts)... a much better alternative is to use dog potty training pads. I personally use the neat N dry brand, and cut them in half into triangles so that they work well in the corner. They're great at absorbing wetness and odor - and much easier to clean. I just change them once a day and put them in that morning's newspaper plastic bag before I put it in the big trash can.

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There used to be a sport in Great Britain called "ferret-legging", where you put a ferret down your trousers with the legs closed shut to see how long you can stand a ferret clawing trying to get out. It's not practiced today as it is considered cruel to ferrets.

Ferrets in deep sleep are very hard to awaken and will sleep through loud noises.

They might not but if they do remember to get one becease they are awesome

Female ferrets need to be neutered to prevent them from developing aplastic anaemia, an unpleasant and usually fatal condition suffered by female ferrets who don't mate. It can also be prevented by allowing them to mate with a vasectomised male (as opposed to a neutered male), but these can be hard to find. Another way is with a "Jill jab," a hormone injection administered by a veterinary surgeon. There is some evidence that the Jill jab is the best way as it's less likely to lead to health complications than neutering.

Male ferrets need to be neutered because if they're not, during mating season they become very stinky sex pests.

I can tell you what parts ferret do not have, they don't have an appendix, cecum or male prostate gland.

if i were you i wouldnt try to put my ferret in a pool

No ball pythons cannot eat ferrets, they would die. It would depend on the size of your python and the size of the ferret. If the sizes are too out of proportion, the ferret will be able to injure the snake. That or the snake will not be able to handle the ferret and will only injure it. You would not want to injure it for nothing. The best thing is to talk to your local herp dealer and see what they recommend an animal of your pets size be fed.

They need to have food and water available at all times. For short periods of time, I wouldn't suggest leaving them alone for more than about 12-14 hours

The bite force of the ferret is about the same as a large dog's bite. They have powerful jaws and very sharp teeth.

The best brand of food for ferrets is one that meat based because they are carnivores listed as the first three ingredients, that is high in protein (35%) and fat (20%), low in carbohydrates and fiber, without grains like corn. Good choices are EVO for ferrets (or cats) and Wysong Archetypal for ferrets. It's important to read the label of ingredients

That would be impossible to answer. A ferret can weight anywhere between 1 - 5 pounds.

And the food a ferret is given, how well it's digested and what comes out. A high quality ferret food would leave less than some cheap food. A how often do you clean the litter box. And for how many ferrets? Ferrets need to go every 3 to 4 hours, and they don't like dirty litter box. Ferrets can go through litter quite rapidly

Mustelid - that is, part of the Mustelidae along with badgers, weasels, stoats and otters.
Ferret is to Mustela. The genus for the ferret is Mustela, and the family for ferret is Mustelidae.

I wouldn't - canned and processed meats tend to be very high in salt. A very small amount of corned beef once in a while probably won't harm a ferret, but it certainly won't do them any good either and so is probably best avoided altogether.

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Babies watch people walk around and they usually want to walk like everyone else. In some situations, though, babies don't care, so their parents will stand a few feet away and hold out their arm saying, "Come here, baby! Come on!." The baby will try to move towards the mother or father. Soon, they will learn to walk, if a baby is two and a half and still won't try (or will try and fail) I would get the toddler checked.

The ferret needs to see an veterinarian immediately. It could be an infected tooth or teeth, cancer or a tumor.

A ferrets gestation period is about 42 days or 6 weeks. After the Jill is bred and the vulva decreases, she may have a thick mucous discharge when pregnant. If the discharge is yellow or brownish and/or foul smelling, it may be a indicate an infection and she should be taken to the veterinarian as soon as possible

Marshall ferrets will have Sable fur (brown black with beige guard hairs) with a mask or an Albino that is white with pink eyes.

No it is not. A lot of the ferrets scent comes from oil produced by its skin. Bathing the ferret too often causes the skin to produce more oil to replace the oil it lost from being washed. The more you bathe your ferret, the more oil their skin produces, the more they smell.

A ferret should only be bathe 2-3 times a year with special ferret shampoo.

Yes. All plants and animals are eukaryotic. That is to say they are all composed of cells withe nuclei.