Before getting a ferret as a pet, you need to think about whether you can provide it with proper care, comfortable conditions, and find the right approach to the animal. In this article, we will talk in detail about keeping this predator at home, and also tell you where to buy a ferret.
Charming and cute ferrets are predators of the mustelid family. The animals have beautiful fur, a pretty muzzle with shiny eyes, and neat semicircular ears. The size of domestic ferrets is about 40 centimeters in length, and their weight reaches 1.5-2 kilograms. In the wild, the predator is most active at night, but domestic ferrets adapt to the rhythms of their owner's life and lead a diurnal lifestyle.
If you have decided to get this animal as a pet, it will be useful for you to learn all the details about the features of keeping this predator in a house or apartment. To buy a domestic ferret that will become tame and get used to you, you need to choose a young individual no older than 6 months. Older animals are almost impossible to tame and remain wild and aggressive towards humans.
Advantages of keeping a ferret as a pet
With a pet like a ferret, you will never be bored. The animals are playful, active, and easily get used to new conditions, and if you buy a kit under the age of 1.5 months, it will become tame very quickly.
Domestic ferrets, accustomed to coexisting with humans, are friendly and almost never show aggression. The exceptions are cases when the animal is frightened and feels threatened. Fluffy predators get attached to their owners, show affection, and greet them with loud clucking or cooing.
The advantages of keeping ferrets as pets also include the predator's unpretentiousness in its diet, and the animal's ability to make friends with cats and dogs.
Are there any disadvantages?
Some ferret owners consider the predator's hyperactivity to be the main disadvantage of keeping the animal. The animal cannot be left unsupervised, otherwise it will not only explore the entire territory, but also climb into all the cabinets, under the furniture, the sofa, and even into bags. Everything the ferret likes during such an excursion, it will take for itself and hide in a secluded place. In order not to search for lost items for hours, you will need to securely lock the cabinets with cosmetics, jewelry, and other valuables. It is also better to close the dish cabinets; the ferret will not steal plates and cups, but it can easily break them.
Ferrets have special glands under their tails that secrete a rather specific odor. But this odor appears only when the animal is stressed or very frightened. If you take proper care of the ferret and create comfortable conditions for it, you will not face the problem of an unpleasant odor.
Where can you buy a ferret?
If you have weighed all the pros and cons of keeping a ferret at home and decided to get this mischievous and active predator, you will need to choose a store or a cattery where you can buy a ferret.
When choosing where to buy a ferret, refuse the idea of buying an animal from private individuals. Yes, private sellers often offer to buy a ferret at an inexpensive price, but then you will have no guarantee that you will acquire a healthy animal adapted to living with humans.
It is best to buy a ferret in a cattery, where they will sell you a kit of the right age, healthy, accustomed to human contact, and will also be sure to advise you on the rules of care and keeping the predator at home.
In our "Sobol Doma" cattery there are no ferrets, but there are no less cute and charming animals — sables. Our website will help you learn about the advantages of keeping a sable as a pet, and if you have any questions left, we are always ready to give you consultations by phone or in person.