r/ferrets

They are helping!

after a banging time in the garden

I just love how they curl up and sleep together!

I need help. I recently just adopted a 5+ year-old ferret whom we have named Socks. He is the champagne colored. We took him to the vet and discovered he had ear mites that he had really bad vision almost completely blind and that he was 5+ years old we weren’t given an exact age. This is just their estimate now stink is the brown colored ferret and I have had him for a little over a year and he himself is probably a year and a half now I work from home. My boyfriend works at night so we we re both able to give stink a lot of attention. He was always with us. We bought him ball plates made him multiple dig boxes given him. Any toys bags played chase a lot, but I started to notice him loafing a lot more. It was almost like he was just staring off and was bored of us so me and my boyfriend talked about getting another ferret one day while my boyfriend was at work. I went to visit a pet shop for my friend and I noticed there was one champagne colored, ferret all by himself I could tell he was older just because of the way he lacked energy. Nonetheless, I felt sorry for him because I didn’t want him to be there all alone with no friends just a bunch of kittens. I ended up calling my boyfriend and asked if it was OK if we adopted him because I wanted to give him a good home but also because I wanted Stink to have a sibling now for my research, everyone was saying to give it at least 2 to 3 weeks before trying to introduce them now unfortunately when I try to keep them quarantined stink did figure out how to get through one of the rooms and attacked socks and he’s probably attack socks in total probably about five times and which socks being blind cannot fight back or do anything and has probably pooped himself three times so I have tried doing the scent swap where I switched their beds. I’ve even rubbed their fur against each other, hoping that stink would get used to his scent and have less of an issue with him. The other day stink was actually OK for about 10 minutes before I saw him try and jump on socks. I feel kind of at a loss here I feel kind of hopeless. I was really wanting to give Sting a friend or sibling so that he wasn’t so lonely and I was really wanting to do something by rescuing Socks and giving him a good home I’m also not sure if stink doesn’t like him because socks is so old we have to give him a little more attention because of his age anyone have any suggestions or tips? I really want Socks and Stink to be friends, but Stink just seems to hate him.

Guys I know Marshalls ferrets are small. I purchased her before I realized how bad Marshalls actually is, by the way. Is she too small? We've had other ferrets much bigger, and she's around 4 years old for reference. Sorry for the shit photo, I just took it.

She’s 2 years old and she’s a super hyper little stinker. She eats and drinks normal but since late July I think she’s been slowly loosing hair on her tail and I thought it was bc her old cat tree was dirty so I got her a new one and still her entire underside of her tail is basically completely bald now. I’ve notice her hair between her shoulder blades is also a bit thin and I can clearly see her pink skin versus the rest of her body. I’ve had ferrets shed tails before but never as much as her. Is this adrenal or just seasonal shedding? I’m making her an appointment just incase on Monday but I wanted to hear yall opinions since she’s only 2. Both my ferrets are fed freeze dried raw as well and I did recently change laundry set could it be that?

My bed is extremely heavy and a king size so big. It's real hard for me to get to clean under it constantly. Today I found out some of my ferrets decided to poop under my bed. I need a kinda cheap and def easy way to block underneath my bed. Most of the kits being sold i would have to buy 2 or 3 kits. Any ideas that would be easy and emphasis on cheap PLEASEEEE.

One of my girls for tax.

PLEASE HELP

I never thought I’d see 8 years with this lil noodle, and yet here we are…other than being a bit slower than her younger days, she’s still as happy and healthy as the day I got her…

Is this not the sleepiest baby you've ever seen?🥹 She has been with us 4 days but seems to be settling in really well and is just the sweetest🤭

My baby boy (3yrs) has recently started making these sneezy coughy noises tonight. He sneezes and hiccups a lot and has waardenburgs but this seems abnormal to me

I got my ferrets a ball pit, which they absolutely love!! I’m concerned with the ball pit itself being made out of memory foam, although it’s wrapped in cloth so the foam itself is not presented to my ferrets. I’ve seen other ferret owners with this ball pit and haven’t heard of any issues. I just don’t want my ferrets to scratch past the cloth and get into the foam, and have an internal blockage or anything of that sort. Does anyone have any experience with this ball pit? Or any advice?