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This idiot is very cute.
That said, I’m going to be a killjoy and say for people who interact or want to interact with ferrets, please know:
- They will eat anything they’re not supposed to, and many of them love styrofoam. It’s very bad for them and can cause intestinal blockages. Biodegradable packing peanuts are a safe way to watch them go nuts in foam.
- It’s not safe to hold them up by their scruff like that. You can use it to immobilize them for things like nail clipping or meds and it’s really effective. But you should never use the scruff to support their body weight like that. Their moms do that when they’re kits, but it’s not safe for a full-sized one.
Some other ferret facts:
- If a female ferret goes into heat, unlike a lot of animals she will not come out of it until she gets pregnant. If she doesn’t, the stress of being in heat will eventually kill her. She’ll die from being too horny.
- a group of ferrets is called a business
- Rudy Giuliani had an infamous meltdown about ferrets back when he was mayor of New York.
- Ferrets are sometimes employed as electrician’s assistants to run wire through inaccessible spaces.
I like ferrets.
I would like to subscribe to ferret facts please
- A common misconception is that ferrets are nocturnal. They’re not, but they’re also not diurnal–they sleep 20 hours a day. They wake up throughout the day to eat, shit, and wreak havoc and then spend the rest of it passed the fuck out.
- ferret comes from the Latin “little thief” which makes a lot of sense if you’ve ever spent time with one. They love to steal things and hide them in a stash pile–mine tore a hole in the fabric on the bottom of the couch to put their treasures deep in the underbelly. They favorite things to hide are whatever you really need at that moment. Don’t leave your keys laying around.
- the noise a ferret makes when they’re excited is called dooking.
- Ferrets bite HARD. It’s not because they are mean, but because they themselves have extremely thick skin and biting is a part of play. If a ferret bites you, you have to yelp and stop playing with them–that’s what their peers do when they bite too hard. This is easier to train when they’re kits.
- A lot of ferrets are pretty easy to litter train because they naturally back up into a corner to poop. That said, sometimes they will tell you which corner the litter box needs to be moved to.
I have so many more good god.
I was always told that scruffing them is fine but you need to grab more than the person in the grip, obviously don’t carry them around the house like that but if you need to manipulate them then grabbing a handful is usually okay. It’s fine when you’re spreading out the weight but that weird two finger grip on the back of the neck is just mean.
Yeah definitely, scruffing itself is fine! But like you said, you gotta get more skin in it, and you need to support the rest of their body. It’s a good way to get them to stop wiggling for whatever you need to do, but it’s not a way to carry them.
TIL female ferrets are Vulcans.
That episode woke something up deep inside my 12 year old self and I’ve never been the same since.
Ferrets are sometimes employed as electrician’s assistants to run wire through inaccessible spaces.
Imagine being a ferret and you are forced to work.
Yay capitalism
a group of ferrets is called a business
This is my favorite of your facts.
Can we have a TV show with ferrets doing cool stuff called The Business? Maybe one of those shows about a team that takes on bad guys in cool and surprising ways.
I’ll look different at business meetings now. Probably with a little smile. TY TIL
“And I’ll do it again! I regret nothing!”
The ferret is a professional motion capture actor, as you can see.
Crap, Andy Serkis is a ferret?
Always has been
Ferret Sno Cap
Looks like it’s still rendering
…he found the secret stash…
“Oh, balls.”
