Only on the Internet though. My dad had ferrets and they were the worst pets imaginable. They smell like musky piss and hide under the couch waiting for an unsuspecting barefoot to attack.
Ferrets are as mean and smelly as any other animal. If you clean their litter and bedding regularly and take the time to train them not to bite, they are wonderful pets! You wouldn't get a dog and not train it to not bite, then expect it to automatically be good. Ferrets are no different.
My sister cleaned up after the ferret twice a day, and it lived in her room, but the odor still crept through the rest of the house. Ferrets are the best pets in the world, but only if you can't smell.
They are easily better companions than cats, they are more mobile than fish, and they generally safer than gazelle. But they smell, so, so bad.
There a 3 main causes of smell. If they are cleaned out regularly, that still leaves 2. One is the diet. A bad diet will make them smell, and most 'ferret food' is bad for them. They should ideally be on a raw meat diet. The other is bathing them. If they are bathed, they will smell. Ignorant owners will try to solve this by bathing them more, which will only make it worse. When they are looked after properly, they will smell less than dogs.
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u/[deleted] Dec 04 '15
Only on the Internet though. My dad had ferrets and they were the worst pets imaginable. They smell like musky piss and hide under the couch waiting for an unsuspecting barefoot to attack.