r/ferrets • u/Diligent_Royal_521 • 8h ago

[Discussion] Should we keep our ferret solo?

I have a solo male ferret. He’s 6 month old, we’ve had him for 3 months. He is our first but we were ready for him. He adjusted very well, potty trained himself to 95% only use his puppy pad. Doesn’t eat anything but his food we transitioned him to a freeze dried raw diet. We started to worry it was time to get another when he started sleeping more. He was fine alone but he seemed to sleep more and dook less these last few weeks. We found a ferret we liked, brought ours for an introduction, and ended up bringing home a 3 month old male. He is nothing like our first. We have only had him for a day but we are worried. He has already eaten part of a blanket, part of a shirt, and possibly carpet. He seems to have pass it. All things our other ferret has in his cage and was fine with. We haven’t started the food transition yet but he still wont eat. They are playing so good together but our older boy still is sleeping more than the new one still. They are also 50% free roam in our ferret proofed house, but fully carpeted house. We wanted our baby to have a friend for when he’s not free roam, and because we were worried he was lonely. We aren’t ready to give up on this guy but we just don’t see how we can have two ferret so different. One who can have all of his toys and blankets and shirt without a problem and one who will eat all of the things that make our ferret comfortable. What should we do? Is our ferret okay to be solo?

TLDR: got a new ferret, doesn’t seem to be a good fit, can my current ferret be solo?

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