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posted by Dark-Blood

Caring for your FIRST Ferret

Whether you are considering adopting a ferret from the Ferret Information Rescue Shelter & Trust Society, are planning to purchase one from a pet store, or have one of your own, FIRST wants to help you provide the best possible home and care for your pet. To this end, we have prepared this brochure to explain briefly some of the habits and concerns of these active and affectionate animals.

General

The average life span of a ferret is 6 to 8 years. When fully grown, females weigh about 800 grams (1.5 lbs) while males are generally about 1.2 kg (2.5 lbs). A female's...

types of ferrets

posted by Dark-Blood

There are lots of different types of ferrets when it comes to coloring, however there aren’t any different breeds (such as cats and dogs have) to the common household ferrets (the domestic ferret does have wild cousins such as the polecat or the Black Footed Ferret ).

The variety of colors that ferrets come in is incredible. The two most common colors are sable and white. The white can come with either red or black eyes.

Ferret_life

When deciding what color your ferret is keep in mind that ferrets can in fact change color according to different seasons and age. A ferret that is darker in summer...

Keeping Ferrets Safe

posted by PokemonGirl505

ferrets are escape artist when it comes to your house or their cages. so the best thing to do is to make sure you dont have any gaps or holes or else, YOUR FUZZ BALL COULD BE GONE...FOREVER!!!!!!!!!!!!NO!! anyway........with their cage, make sure your their ain't any holes bigger then about 6 or 7 cm wide or else,YOUR LITTLE FURRY BUDDY WILL BE IN THE HOUSE SOMEWHERE...AHH NO!!!....anyway ALSO make sure that when your ferret is playing around the house everyone knows he or she is about AND that the doors are closed or else...YOUR FUZZ WILL RUN AWAY NO!!
so thank you for reading follow my ways and make sure, YOUR fuzzie stays safe for its whole life time!!

ferrets

posted by Dark-Blood

The ferret (Mustela putorius furo) is the domesticated form of the European Polecat, a mammal belonging to the weasel genus of the family MustelidaeThey typically have brown, black, white, or mixed fur. They have an average length of 20 inches (51 cm) including a 5 inch (13 cm) tail, weigh about 1.5–4 pounds (0.7–2 kg), and have a natural lifespan of 7 to 10 yearsFerrets are sexually dimorphic predators with males being substantially larger than females.

Several other small, elongated carnivorous mammals belonging to the Mustelidae family also have the word ferret in their common names,...

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True Story

posted by invadercalliope

I hope you enjoy.
This was a pretty long time ago.
My first ferret i ever had was named rikki tikki tavi we named him that well you can guess and he should have fangs in the movie not buk teeth. But anyway we were really close
i put him in my hodie and take him everywere
Sometimes i went to my friends house and forgot he
was in their so he would pop out of my hodie
and my friends would freak out and i would be like hey rikki but one day we had to move :( and we had to leave rikki *i will cry if i tell why*
he went to my grandmother who stayed and i cried in the car.
So then in 2 weeks my parents gave...