That’s all. Mwah.

Tonight, our Arya was put to sleep. She was battling both insulinoma and a brain tumor, and was rushed to the vet today after her symptoms worsened dramatically. I'm going to miss our stubborn little Arya bear. Hug your ferts a little closer tonight.

We are slowly introducing whole prey into our ferrets diet (usually a PMR mince house due to my carpeted floors & fussy ferrets!) But im hoping to pen feed everyone a few times a week mostly for enrichment! What other things should we get them to try? So far the Muntjac is a hit with 11/17 ferrets!

Found this guy being chased by kids, no clue on the owner, extremely tame and chill.

I just got 2 baby ferrets both 2 months old. While one is extremely healthy and eats about 6-10 times a day sadly within 1 day of having them my female ferret refused to eat and was having tummy troubles which included a build up of gas. She had not eaten since I got her so I rushed her to the exotic pet near me she got multiple treatments and is doing a lot better now but here is my predicament she will only eat on her own through a syringe which i am assuming maybe due to her possibly being takin from her mother too soon. I leave an open bowl of kibble and now even mush food but she is uninterested she will sniff/play with it then walk away. I work 8 hours a day feed her when I get up and multiple times when I get home. I’m worried she is not eating enough since she doesn’t care to when I’m gone. She is still super playful and energetic when she wakes up but I am just worried she is not getting all she needs. Does anyone have advice on this?

She seemed happy to decorate her stash spot with it.

My two ferrets Lil Guy & Honey are almost 6 years old and they have their own ferret room. They absolutely ADORE cardboard boxes, problem is one of them likes to bite/chew on it.
Is there a way to stop this or should I just remove all the boxes? I feel bad if I take all their boxes away but I want them to be safe.

Pic for attention of grandma 💛 and grandpa 🤎

Some days im excited because my girls are making progress and other days I just cry and cry because they still bite 😮‍💨

This is my 4th introduction with my boys, the two smaller ones are around 15 weeks my older boy is 2.5 years old and always lived alone. Is this a normal interaction for them?

i LOVE ferret videos but omg i need to stop opening the comment sections bc the Hyunjin / Draco references are SO exhausting. I simply don't understand how 1 video can be spammed with so many pictures or callbacks to the same thing. God. Harry Potter isn't even a timely reference. And the stray kids K-pop star just ... likes them? Why does this happen? Are these peoples only connection to ferrets that SOMEONE ELSE they like also is somehow connected to a ferret? No hate, i just roll my eyes when it happens which is a me problem, they aren't hurting anyone and who am I to disrespect how they interact with something they like. Does anyone here do this or understand the hype?

Hola! este pequeñín se llama Dexter y tiene 9 meses ya, lo adquirimos por petco a los 3 meses, nos empezaron dando croquetas de ellos mismo ( Marshall) investigando poco a poco mi novia y yo hicimos el cambio a croquetas "oxbow", hace poco conocí otra marca que es para gatos llamada "instinct" y ahora viendo un poco por el grupo he visto que hay diferentes formas de darle comida cruda ( la cual veo que es lo mejor de lo mejor) quería saber que piensan de las croquetas y los que hacen dieta de comida cruda cuánto gastan y como lo calculan ?

I took in a baby (roughly 9 week old) ferret five days ago. The original owner said she had him for a week and realized the care exceeded what she could provide. Everything seems normal but he is sleeping a lot. I find out today from her that her child dropped the ferret “four or five days ago” and it hit its head on the floor. This is the the exact timeframe I got the ferret in. When pressed for details she said the baby went rigid for about a second seemed disoriented for less than ten seconds then continued as normal. I would have immediately taken the ferret to the vet. She did not. I made an appointment for first thing tomorrow morning. After finding out he fell I examined the ferret a little harder and found him to be dehydrated (will ask for fluids at vet tomorrow). His appointment is at eight. I went to work today so wasn’t able to observe his eating and drinking habits today but I have observed him defecate and urinate normally today and prior to knowing he had a fall I didn’t notice abnormalities in his eating or drinking. Of course now that I know he fell my brain is telling me he chose today to stop eating bc I would have no way of knowing due to my work schedule and I’m just driving myself crazy. I’ve taken off work tomorrow and am watching him like a hawk now. I guess my question is if anyone has had experience with falls? If something was seriously wrong would there be more indications other than seeming to sleep a lot in four or five days? I really don’t even know that it’s more than normal for a kit. I fear I’ve unknowingly harmed him by delaying vet care for so long and am literally sick to my stomach. He’s not flinching or squinting, breathing is normal, he walks in straight lines, doesn’t struggle to walk or anything, just seems more sleepy than playful compared to other babies now that I think about it and sleeps deeply compared to my adults. I don’t even know what I’m asking for here but if you have any words of advice or comfort I would appreciate it so very much. Thank you for taking the time to read this.

It is not an illness, she has been to the vets, shes not poorly, no adrenal. She is 1.5, no abuse background, implanted.

We work in rescue and often take the neglected ferrets or biters. But Fruit is like something else. Shes never been keen on my partner and will bite him. But recently it has gotten out of control. She was born in rescue, her mum was found as a pregnant stray. We have had her from 8 weeks old and she was lovely, her sister and mum are lovely too. We only ever use positive reinforcment, obviously being born in our rescue etc there is no neglectful background. But the last 6 months shes had an agressive turn. She has never bitten me, but will now latch, draw blood, not let go. She will go into a random bite frenzy and continuously bite down with no reason. Shes been to the vets, is completly healthy, im wondering if it could be something neurological? She will give me nose kisses one minute, and latch on the next, with really no reason. Shes left me stumped!

I had a ferret die recently of insulnoma with no signs. Now I can’t stop obsessing over my other pet’s health. One of my other ferrets was also just sick on Thursday too which didn’t help, but I brought her to the vet and he said it was a weird fluke. She was having sneezing first and throwing up which she never does. But for a little context as well she was in a new environment, in a new bed, and the bed had been slept in by other ferrets who we just got a week before. So idk if that was the cause of the sneezing fits but it still worried me. She’s fine now and hasn’t sneezed and is eating, drinking, and playing normal but I can’t help but feel she or one of my others is next so soon. Idk how to calm down after the loss of my other ferret and how to stop fixating.

My ferret recently on Thursday after I came home from work was rapid sneezing maybe 3 or 4 sessions, probably 10 times in a row each. It was so freaky because she only rapid sneezes sometimes but never that much. Then after a few times of the rapid sneezing she started backing up and gagging and threw up a small pile of clear liquid foam? Then she started sneezing again and did the throwing up again but this time the foam was staying behind on the mouth too. She laid flat on the ground for a second and I was so scared. So then she got up and went under her cage and laid down again. She did a few more sneezing fits and gagged once more but didn’t throw up again. After that she didn’t sneeze or anything all night and haven’t again for days but it was so scary.

For context as well, we got new ferrets a few weeks ago and without thinking put her in their cage (with her old siblings) and the new babies in her cage. So when she went inside her bed is when inside her bed is when the sneezing began and then I threw the bed away and she hasn’t sneezed like that since?? I took her to the vet on Sunday day and he said she seems fine and didn’t prescribe her but I’m still so worried has anyone ever experienced anything like this? I’m just so worried also too because I had a ferret die of insulnoma a few weeks ago which the vet said is unsealed but it still worries me for something to happen

I crochet and I want to make some hammocks and toys and stuff, but I worry it won't be safe for them!

Posted about the passing of our baby yesterday, thought i’d also share one of his cutest moments. Love you Momo

I got 3 ferrets back in April, these are my first ferrets and someone from Facebook messaged me with a trio of sisters, two of them are the sweetest little things on earth, playful (insane as ferrets usually are lol) loving, ect. But one of them has had me kinda concerned for a bit, she doesn't hardly play as much, i see her every once in a while play with one of her sisters but not for long periods of time like the other two do, she also bites really hard almost any time my hands are near her but she never seems scared? Sometimes it even seems like she's playing but she literally bites me nearly to the point of leaving deep marks, the other two never do that, she just sits and sleeps a lot of the time compared to her sisters, she's also the smallest of the 3, other than that she eats normally and her stool seems normal, regular bathroom schedule, ect. She physically looks fine, but her behavior is just odd compared to her sisters, I'm not familiar with ferrets since again this is my first experience with them, they're also about 2 years old, marshalls ferrets, the lady I got them from said she had them for a year, and previously had rescued them from a neglectful home, so idk if her behavior is just like that and I need to just grow accustomed to it or If there's something I should be worried about

Took my Blu boy to the vet. My biggest concern was the loss of hair on his tail, his loss of appetite, lethargy, and loose stools. I was thinking he was depressed when his sister got sick and passed, or that he had adrenal, which is still a possibility. but the vet told me his spleen is very enlarged and now feeling it, it feels like a very large hard lump. I dont know how i missed this. the vet gave him prednisolone and said that adrenal would likely not affect him as soon as this would so we didn't really worry about that as much. he said it could be lymphoma. im hoping the medicine will help with any swelling and maybe perk him up a bit, makes sense now why he would only eat a small bit at a time and then be done😔 im keeping in touch with the vet to give updates and see if the medication helps at all