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[–] pleasestopasking@reddthat.com 13 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)
  • 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.

[–] abigscaryhobo@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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.

[–] pleasestopasking@reddthat.com 2 points 1 week ago

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.