My favorite place she sleeps in my arms.

My babies (both 1 and male) have unfortunately eaten chocolate. I understand that it is my fault so please do not yell at me in the comments. luke(the one whos on top) ate half a piece about 3 days ago and is acting completely normal. chewbacca(the one whos under luke) ate chocolate about 2 days ago and he ate a full piece and is acting normal. we called the vet and they said they are completely fine since it wasnt a lot and since its only once. im still concerned if they will die or not. the chocolate they ate was milk chocolate if it matters. i am a teenager so i cant take them to the vet unless my mom lets me which she wont since she was the one who called them and they told her it was fine. since i cant go to the vet please tell me what i could do or look for to prevent death or just make sure they wont/arent dying.

Curious owner of two champaign noodles here. We've had them for 2 years now, and this is their second winter with us. They are both males. Bandit (on the left) has gotten all floofy with his winter coat looking chonky and all, while Cinnamon (on the right) has remained skinny. Last year, Cinnamon didn't get his coat either. Does it really matter? We keep them indoors and in our well heated home. Just curious if it's nothing really to worry about or if there's something more serious underlying here. We have a vet checkup visit Wednesday if so.

Hi all, I’m trying not to panic.

One of my ferrets (age 3) ran around the living room coughing/gagging and then laid on the floor, unmoving.

It seemed like she couldn’t stay awake, I would rouse her and she’d lick me or move to look around, then “fall asleep” immediately again. My first thought was insulinoma. I smeared a bunch of honey all over her gums and encouraged her to eat part of an egg, but I don’t think it worked. It didn’t “perk her up” like the emergency guide said it would.

My only other thought is a blockage but there’s nothing for her to have eaten…. She pooped normally just an hour ago.

Any ideas? I will absolutely get an emergency vet but they don’t open until 7am.

I currently have a 10ish week old Jill. I want to get a hob or another Jill but am concerned about needing to get them desexed.

Should I wait till I desex both to introduce them?

Or

Should I introduce them both after quarantine and wait for them to bond wit me and each other, before I go to get them desexed?

My little family is mostly gone, all my boys died this year and I've got one left, I was concerned for her of course and anxious because I can't really afford another ferret right now but she seems to be doing fine

Her brothers were all 2 or 3 times her size and she actively avoided them much of the time because she couldn't keep up with the play fighting, it's why I didn't have much of a relationship with her before

She's much more interactive now and doesn't hide as much anymore, does that sound about par for the course considering? I was afraid she'd be lonely but she seems to be taking advantage of all the space she has unlimited access to now, all to herself

She still plays and runs around, more so now than before, she doesn't seem to have been negatively affected by the losses like previous ferrets of mine have, I know it's a brief summary of events but do you think she's content? Does it sound like she's ok going solo so far?

I'm noticing a funny little trend of ferrets names rocket. Just curious how many peaple here named there ferrets rocket?

Wanting to adopt. She seemed to respond to tapping on the cage but I can't be sure. She looks borderline blaze.

my ferret has been dragging his back legs for around 2 days, he also has been trembling a lot but he’s still eating occasionally. taking him to vet tomorrow but very anxious, please help 😞

New to the group and wanted to share my babies!

My little Sonja girl!

So my MiL says our ferrets stink, she won't stop saying it, she said she could smell them when she was approaching our apartment from the stairwell... Nobody else can smell them like this, even my mom who has a super smeller and can smell things my MiL can't.

but...

mother in law has 4 birds she shares an office with on a daily basis...

does anyone else see the hypocrisy in criticizing one persons stinky pet when you own birds.

I love my MiL, wouldn't trade her for another, but I just thought this observation was amusing lol

He hates the hat xD but he also is much older now! :3 my baby boy is 5!

Where can I adopt or buy a ferret around the Silver Spring, Maryland area. every place that I search for has no ferrets available or is hours away.

Photo as tax.

So I added a female ferret to our solo male. It has gone great. They love each other. She is absolutely chaos but that is a ferret. She has a lot of common bad ferret behavior but nothing horrible just "our guy doesn't do it". We are her second owner.

The main problem has been switching her from her Marshall pellets. The primary concern is our male will eat it. We have our guy on an intune and meat diet. 90% intune pellets and raw or freeze dried meat for the rest. She will not switch. We have used all the suggestions.

She also was allowed to sneak dried dog food at her previous owner. So I started leaving an open bag of wysong epigen open when free roaming. (I tried using that instead of intune in case taste was an issue, she won't eat it if in her bowl) She will eat it if she can steal it from the bag directly or from a cat bowl.

Has anyone else had a ferret be picky about how food is presented? We have a food puzzle and I put wysong in that. I don't know if she is eating it or our guy though. She was really skinny when we got her and she went on a hunger strike for a while so we are hesitant to just switch. She still won't touch intune or any meats, raw or freeze dried.
She will ignore the wysong when mixed with her Marshall. She won't eat her food if mixed as a soupy. She's so picky.

It has only been 5 months though.