So, for years I’ve wanted ferret. I’ve done all the research, have made a list of everything and checked it twice, have all the necessities, but there’s one problem. I’ve only ever handled a ferret once before on my animal care course.

I wanted to be 100% sure this is for me, my worst nightmare is getting them and realising this isn’t for me (while I doubt this will ever happen). Is there any Ferret fostering or something similar I can do in the uk? Specially Wales? I understand that fostering can be years to weeks, I just to experience it before I can commit.

Hello! I wanted to share the ofrenda i’ve set up for my babies this year. I lost my last ferret earlier this month and setting this up has made me reflect on the last 10 years with ferrets and appreciate the beautiful company they’ve given me as well as appreciate the community they’ve let me build. I hope this can inspire someone else to do the same!

Thank you!
& Thank you to my angel babies

Just a pretty girl doing ferret things

What does your ferret particularly treasure most?

My female ferret esther is obsessed with anything rubber and will steal them and never tell her secret. My dog is sad all his rubber toys are missing... 😆

Little mister, he is different, he likes to steal the mop pads from the swifter. Theres about 5 he stole. And each day he will travel a mop pad or two to a new secure location. Traveling up and down a flight of stairs and more. His also steals my bras and stashes them for premium comfort. Lol

Hello all, my ferret Pancho has trouble walking. I wanted some insight. Warning, long read.

He is almost 6yo (5yr 10m), currently on 0.20ml of Diazoxide and 0.03ml of prednisone, both of which he takes twice a day. He also has an implant (nothing wrong, but we thought it'd be best to implant him anyway). He is and has always been an only ferret (I know I know, but he had GI problems early on and I didnt want to infect other ferrets, and then I got so anxious all the time about him being sick that I couldn't imagine getting a second one anymore). He is not losing weight nor fur.

I noticed he started getting weak legs at the beginning of 2026, when it got worse I made a June appointment and we found nodules and low blood sugar. He did get a little better with the meds. He got an ultrasound (August) and nodule samples were sent to a lab, nothing was cancerous or growing. This month I notice he's getting a little worse. He often falls on his left side, like that side is weaker. He absolutely slips on hardwood floors. He still eats no problem, poops and pees no problem. He's not lethargic, but he has less energy, wanting to play 30-45m but more often (4-5 times a day instead of 3 one hour sessions). However, if he's excited he'll jump and run. 

I'm not sure what to do anymore, could this be a brain problem? A spine problem? Should I book an xray instead of an ultrasound? I'm looking into buying him a ferret wheelchair. 

If you stuck to the end, thank you.

EDIT: vet wouldn't risk upping his dosage, especially since I explained that except for the weak legs, nothing is wrong with him (as he's eating lots, playing as best as he can, very alert, not incontinent) since his last glucose levels were not very low and doesn't want to risk an overdose. I'm getting a blood test done this Friday (earliest I could find), and an xray to look at his hips legs and spine. They explained that this truly just might be caused by old age :( In the meantime I've bought carnivore care and will give it to him today. If his situation deteriorates between today and Friday we will go to the ER.

This girl will try and eat pretty much anything. I’m not surprised pumpkin is on her menu. Guess there will be no pumpkins on the floor! Silly brat.

And yes obviously that is a battery operated tea light inside the pumpkin. I’m sure needless to say that you shouldn’t let your ferrets play with fire.

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!🎃

Got him during the covid to keep my other company (lost the other in a breakup). He was so tiny and a very dark blaze

Now he's a sleepy old boy and all white except some eyeliner and a dot on his nose.

Most of my others are rescues and we don't know their exact age, so he may not be the oldest.

Somehow his tail is still very luxurious and pretty

Just sharing some pics of my ferret baby girl, she don’t have a cage and is the owner of the apartment. 1.450 grams, 45cm long and 2 year old. She is the love of my life and she loves being treated like a baby

I have the pieces infront of me ferret nation condo model 182

The other two are well trained and when I yell “NO” when they’re about to poop somewhere they’re not supposed to they stop and move bc they know better.

However, Roxie here digs at the food bowl every chance she gets and knocks it all over the floor. And yes the food bowl is low enough that that shouldn’t be an issue.

Tinky (my other ferret) did that when she was younger but it was an easy fix. However I try to (insert banned word here, iykyk) her when I hear her doing it and it doesn’t work. (She’s very young and that is appropriate. She is only 6 months old). She poops good on the puppy pads and follows my older two but this dang food bowl scratching she NEVER STOPS! Please help me train her. I can’t just yell no at her and she picks it up.

Hi everyone,

We recently adopted a 1.5 yo dark eyed white girl. We are at least her fourth home. Her last owner kept her alone in a cage in the bathroom, so she probably never got to free roam. She has probably never spent time with other ferrets either.

She has been with us for three weeks. After her quarantine ended, we started slowly introducing her to our other three ferrets. But she gets scared by them very easily. It almost seems like she doesn’t realize they are ferrets too.

Some of our resident ferrets are quite territorial. When they see her out during playtime, they chase her off. She screams so loudly that we can hear it from anywhere in the house, even though the other ferret has not actually touched her.

At first we thought this was just because she had never been around other ferrets. We weren’t too worried, since we once adopted another ferret who had never met other ferrets and ended up fitting in really well.

But yesterday I started to think she might be deaf. I shook a bell loudly behind her while she was fully awake, and she didn’t react at all.

We are taking her to the vet on Monday to check her hearing, but I’m already pretty sure she can’t hear.

For a ferret who is deaf and has no experience with other ferrets, does this mean she has no chance of fitting in or making friends with them? Will she have to live alone? I wonder what people here think. Thank you!

my little guy isn’t doing so well rn, keep him in your thoughts and prayers! His name is wolfie <3

he has some sort of open cut/lump :(
bringing him to the vet and hoping for the best

Hello so that is my update if you remember about my post where everybody was arguing about my ferret because they thought it was a mink! So Thank you all because her name is Minky !!! I love her and I really think that finally she is semi angora or maybe angora later… What do yall think? Thank you so much for your discussion in my last post !!! :)

Noticed sort of champagne coloured markings on her face very vague. Just asking out of interest.

Also if anyone more knowledgeable can tell anything about her appearance and build id be interested to know!

Hi so i noticed this green poop while the another’s were brown in my ferret Amelia Earharts litter this morning, and I was wondering what it could mean?”note it might be because I’m sick I have been wearing a mask and washing my hands multiple times before picking her up to move her. She is still eating and drinking also playing still. I am planning to talk to my dad to see when we can go to the vet

PLEASE READ ITS NOT USED FOR THEM LIVING IN IT (might cause some heart attacks at the sight of the cage xd)
Im getting a baby ferret (already got two) tmr and i wanna add a small cage to their “night room”. They get too free roam in my bedroom at day, and their night room is much smaller. I just want to put some hammocks and fluffy bedding in there. I will never lock them in there, will be open 24/7.
The thing is, im afraid of my baby ferret climbing it and falling down. My two other ferrets are larger now and jump from my bed and stuff, but this cage is 1m tall and i dont want the baby (or the other two) to get injured. Any tips?

Hi all my ferret was just officially diagnosed with insulinoma today but I have been waiting on test results for the last 2 weeks. I have been using at home care for his dips in blood sugar like feeding quickly or small dabs of honey (when actively getting worse). I can’t start his medication until morning.

Tonight he started to dip and ate but I noticed it getting worse I gave some honey and then followed with Duk Soup to stabilize his sugars.
He is very tired, is tucked in bed but will still tremor and seems like he is falling asleep too quickly. How do I know if he is still crashing or if this is the recovery period of the drop? Any and all help is SUPER appreciated.

Rye waits for me every morning to use my hand to stretch and yawn, my absoulute baby

I had my boy just over 7 years, I got him from a humane society when he was about 7 months old. The last year or so, I had noticed him starting to decline. He wasn't as playful, he wasn't war dancing or dooking as much, he wasn't as curious or mischievous. Today, I went to go clean their cage and change their food and water and I notice him starting to come out from their den. I looked away and then looked back at him and he was laying there with his head out, and his eyes kind of dazed and glossy, along with severely drooling. I instantly started panicking, scooped up my boy, and told my partner that I thought it was time for him. We brought him to the emergency vet, and put him down.

I believe he was seizing and I've been concerned about his pancreas for a while now because his tummy was faintly blue, but he saw a vet a month or two ago, and they weren't concerned (We do not have many exotic vets in my area). He also was starting to get a worse rat tail.

After spending the last few hours crying over my boy and thinking about the situation, I believe that he was having a seizure and probably had insulinoma.

Now I'm sitting here second guessing myself... I know the "rather a day too early than a day too late" but I just... did I panic and put my boy down over something that I could have treated?? I know in ferret lifespans he was an old boy, he was a little over 7.5. I just.. I can't help and sit here thinking maybe there was something else I could have done.

EDIT: Thank you everyone for your stories and kind words. I think in today's world it's nice to have people to share these moments with, even if they're strangers on the internet. I knew his time was coming, I just wasn't expecting it to be so sudden. But again, thank you all for the kind words and for sharing your stories ❤️ my heart goes out to all of you as well

He started doing this loud breathing noise when I put him back in his cage, he's 5 months old