Ferrets

LindaLuvsAnimals

I've realised that there's no one posting about ferrets and i am a fanatic about them. Unfortunately i dont own any yet (not allowed them yet) but i have been doing a lot of research into them and visiting them at the rspca. Would like to talk to any ferret owners.

coliel

HI
I AM A FERRET OWNER!!!!!
i have a dog that is 6 mths old and a hob ferret who is 3 sadly i lost his mate from canser just a few weeks arfet getting them but he has coped on his realy well.
i have acyualy just taken in anouther ferret as an idiot got a pair of gills at 6 weeks and can you believe is boared of them at only 10 weeks !!!
he is a friend of mine who also keeps ferrets so we bothe took one in and actualy the pair are getting on realy well!!!
if you look at coliels pets on pet chat you can see pictures of my ferret and pup and also my lovely gypsie dog who saddly was pts as she had a brain tummer and it had got the better of her.
she was only 7 !!!!
i will try and get photoes of my new ferret too and also the girbils my boys have resently conned me in to getting !!!!
nice to hear of other ferret lovers on hear - have you had them before ?
i had them when i was young but they were my fathers - they were visous things!!!! (we had them to kill the rats , not as pets )
how ever i always thought them lovely and was determined that i would have some that were realy friendly but also working.
gnasher ferret is both he thinks he is dog loves cuddles and plays in the house and gardin lotts but sleeps in a fantastic 2 floor huch with tubes, scateboardes, watreing cans etc
but he also rabbits wounderfully and i have had lotts of sucsess and rabbit pies.
would you like some ferrets soon ?
love coliel

Hcollie85

My cousin had ferrets when he was 17, he had two, and i remember whe i walked by youd see there heads pop up. Dont ask how they died you wouldnt like it.

well i think

I like them but parents will say no anyway

Heather
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LindaLuvsAnimals

i havnt owned ferrets yet no, but have been looking into them for a long time now and have been doing a lot of research on their behaviour and the best way to care and look after them. We've been to an RSPCA to look at them and handle them and generally ask questions a few times and we have fallen in love with them.

I cant wait to get them. They will be the most spoilt things ever!

I dont know if you will be able to answer this or not but.......are there such things as black ferrets?
Just ferrets with a solid black coat?

My partner and i talk about when we get ferrets a lot and we wondered if there were black ferrets so we could get one to call Ninja!

Hcollie85

Ive never seen black ferrets if you do i would think youd be very lucky.

Just brown, salt and pepper, cream type.

Cause there a relation to weasel and stoat they are brown with a white, cream front

Heather
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Dooker

Hi i've got ferrets Very Happy

. You can't get pure black ones but you can get polecats that have black legs and dark/light brown body.

The main colours are polecat, sandy (light brown and normally a little white), albino, and silver. If you would like i can post pics of my guys to show the colours properly.

http://mercia41.ipbhost.com is a brilliant ferret specific forum with very friendly people with lots of info to share so if your a first time owner it might be a good idea to join Very Happy

(I'm not sure if we're allowed to advertise other forums on here but since theres not a lot of ferret chat/info on here hopefully it will be ok, if not can someone please delete it Rolling Eyes

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Kayleigh and all the little terrors

coliel

hi
i definatly think you should get some ferrets as they are great fun !!!
how ever in your post "hello all " you say that you would like to breed lots of difrent animals including ferrets - i have already said that breeding ferrets is probably a badidear and given you reasens how ever i would love to know why you would like to breed an animal you have nver actualy owned !!
love coliel
ps have you owned any of the animals you intend on breeding off or are you looking at it as a carear ?
love coliel

LindaLuvsAnimals

That is an adorable picture! Very Happy

I havnt owned any ferrets yet no but i have been looking into it whoile heartedly (and a little addictively) for over seven months now.

I intend to get rescued ferrets first as, though i have done plenty of research and preperation and have visited them on many occasions, i havnt had the 'living with ferrets' experience. But my god am i looking forward to it!!!

I am not going to start breeding any animals for a long time yet. I am doing it for buisness purposes really because it is what i love more than anything.

Of course i will be owning the animals i wish to breed first when i am able and the situation is suitable, to study them and really know the ins and outs and how they think. And hopefully write a couple of books on the different animals.

I guess i am doing it more for the fact that i LOVE animals so so much.
(so much easier to get on with than humans) Wink

Im still not sure if i would like to be breeding ferrets or rescueing them yet as i have seen there are a lot of ferrets that need good homes.
I am aware of the ferret population currently but as i have already said, they seem to be more of the 'need a good home' population. And rescued ferrets tend to be neutured and spayed before you are able to adopt them.

All ferret population talk put aside, what is more beautiful than bringing such a pure and beautiful life to the earth to share the love of such a wonderful creature with others....

This is not a hobby i will be taking up lightly. I have been doing all the research and future preperation to understand and make sure i am compoletely 100% sure that i am able to do this. I have been visiting breeders, rescuers and vetenarians.

Dooker

I really hope you decide not to breed ferrets as like you know there are literally hundreds in rescues i've adopted nine ferrets from a rescue over the past 4 years ranging from a couple of months to 4 years and they really deserve to be rehomed rather than someone getting ferrets from a breeder instead who's creating more ferrets to earn a living Sad

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Also if you intend to breed then it may not be a good idea to join the forum i posted as it's run by a rescue Confused

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Although i do hope you get a couple as pets as they are brilliant little guys, but be warned there addictive i had a limit of 1 then 3 then 6 and somehow i've now got 8 i don't know what went wrong Shocked

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Kayleigh and all the little terrors

LindaLuvsAnimals

Wow! Yes there are a lot to be rescued but not all are very friendly. But hopefully after a little rehabilitation i can have them more comfortable and friendly with people and have them adopted. As i said i am still not sure if breeding is what i wish to do with ferrets. Though i will deffinately be owning them as pets and will most probably be the crazy ferret lady after adopting many in just a few years too.

I cant wait! I am so looking forward to it.

Do you have any other pets other that ferrets and do they get on with each other?

We have three cats at the moment and we know that they wouldnt really be bothered about ferrets as they are either too old and lazy, too mothering and would adopt them and lazy, and too skitsy and ould probably try to love them like kittens.

Dooker

Yep i've got other pets, one is a yorkshire terrier he's met all the ferrets through the bars as they all try to bite him apart from one who i trust not to bite the dog so they sometimes play together in the garden. My cat ignores them but when he was alot younger (i had my first ferret 8 years ago) he'd run up to the ferret then stop just before reaching her i'm not too sure what he thought he was doing Rolling Eyes

. One of the ferts has met my rats through the bars and was quite keen to get closer (it's natural prey afterall) They've never met my chinchilla but i'm sure they's be more than willing to eat her and they've also never met the tortoise i'm also sure they'd bite his head of Shocked

and the fish are kept safe in there tanks.
I have to be carefull what other animals my guys meet/get close to as they are fed a prey model diet and so are happy to eat most meats even when coverd in fur but even when not fed meat they still have a strong instinct to kill small furry things.
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Kayleigh and all the little terrors

LindaLuvsAnimals

Hehehe. Yes understandable. I have a yorkshire terrier too called spike. but i dont know how he would react to them as they are natural ratters and though im sure they would give him a run for his money and he would probably run away, i wouldnt want to put the dog or the ferrets under any stress.
A chinchilla you say? What are they like as pets? I was looking at them ages ago but i am someone who wants an animal who wants to be cuddled and played with.

Dooker

yeah my yorkie didn't meet a loose ferret until after about 2 years of meeting through bars.
Chins are definatly not cuddly in my experience maybe it's because mine is under 8 months still but she'd much rather run around the room jumping on boxes and falling into bins Shocked

she tries to balance on the rim of it but always ends up falling in Laughing

thankfully it's always a soft landing as it's full of bits of fabric (that reminds me, ferrets love hammocks i now make these myself but a few pet shops sell them for stupid prices).
Also if you hold Chins too much their fur goes really greasy and if they wriggle abit to get down and you don't let them they release their fur in clumps so chin can escape and your left with a load of fluff Rolling Eyes

which isn't good for them or you.
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Kayleigh and all the little terrors

LindaLuvsAnimals

i never knew that! Hehe. Bless them.

shadylady

lol ninja thats the nickname we give our cat scooby
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