my new ferret

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yea a couple days after i got them i had to split them up ones got a chunk of ear missing due to it. they dont seem bored or miserable.. they do get a bit excited when i go into the shed though .. im making an 6ft x 4ft x 3ft outside playing area hopefully they will be ok together in there..

 

shame really

 

 

Like i said mate, some ferrets are just funny feckers.

 

My lot are inseperable, and all mine get on with all my ferreting partners (something like a dozen between us in general), all of them that is, apart from two of our main jills who for some reason CANNOT stand each other, and even when worked together just grumble and moan the whole time. You can hear them walking about the warren muttering to themselves.

[scothunter 12,609]

dont need a locator.just be very quiet around the burrow and no smoking or letting dogs scratch abot the holes.if you do get a lie up and its late on and you cant stay around,block off all the holes and go back first thing i the morning,and more than likely when u remove the rock or whatever you have blocked holes with,the wee bugger will be there to greet you.or get a locator if your not to sure.

 

not having a dig here jai and i myself wouldnt keep polecats singular.but actually they are very solitary creatures.a hob polecat in the wild will only ever meet a jill during the mating season.rest of the year he lives a solitary life.

[Ideation 8,216]

dont need a locator.just be very quiet around the burrow and no smoking or letting dogs scratch abot the holes.if you do get a lie up and its late on and you cant stay around,block off all the holes and go back first thing i the morning,and more than likely when u remove the rock or whatever you have blocked holes with,the wee bugger will be there to greet you.or get a locator if your not to sure.

 

not having a dig here jai and i myself wouldnt keep polecats singular.but actually they are very solitary creatures.a hob polecat in the wild will only ever meet a jill during the mating season.rest of the year he lives a solitary life.

 

 

You know what Scott, after i wrote that i was thinking about the hobs, and you are totally right, as you say, they would be a solitary creature, but then ferrets have been domesticated for a long long time, so maybe that alters it . . . . . ???

 

Certainly most ferrets i have come across are pretty social, playful animals, that seem to thrive in a community. . . . .

 

But your right about those polecats mate

[scothunter 12,609]

dont need a locator.just be very quiet around the burrow and no smoking or letting dogs scratch abot the holes.if you do get a lie up and its late on and you cant stay around,block off all the holes and go back first thing i the morning,and more than likely when u remove the rock or whatever you have blocked holes with,the wee bugger will be there to greet you.or get a locator if your not to sure.

 

not having a dig here jai and i myself wouldnt keep polecats singular.but actually they are very solitary creatures.a hob polecat in the wild will only ever meet a jill during the mating season.rest of the year he lives a solitary life.

 

 

You know what Scott, after i wrote that i was thinking about the hobs, and you are totally right, as you say, they would be a solitary creature, but then ferrets have been domesticated for a long long time, so maybe that alters it . . . . . ???

 

Certainly most ferrets i have come across are pretty social, playful animals, that seem to thrive in a community. . . . .

 

But your right about those polecats mate

 

 

yea mate,i like to see them in a wee group playing and being sociable