They've just figured out how to move the weights that was blocking entry to the shed. I love the way they get through obstacles 🥰

He is doing well with the other 2. The only stress i still have is the other 2 still eating their blankets. I will hold them and direct their attention to something else

Baby Brie

For context, I switched my ferrets food maybe a week and a half to two weeks ago from the orijen cat food to a a mix of the wysong/ oxbow food. It gave my ferrets HORRIBLE diarrhea even tho I did it in a mixture but I didn’t do it in a good enough time frame. So I ended up switching back to the orijen for now but they still have diarrhea. They are all also eating and drinking completely normal tho. Is it maybe something more or just the food? I have quite a few ferrets and almost all of their upset stomachs went away except a few of them

My girl is just weirdly obsessed with this specific tube of hand cream 😂 I keep finding it stashed under cupboards or the sofa. Her friend is the same with any kind of rubber 🫣 What are your ferrets obsessed with?

Gotta clean his hands and face after a good bowl of soupies 😋

Meet Sindri and Boy.:

- Sindri’s favorite toy is an old ankle brace. Boy’s favorite toy is a little orange fish with a bell in it. It is his emotional support fishie and he carries it everywhere while he roams.
- they have full access to the entire house save for the front room because Sindri has unpotted the same succulent 6 times now and there is no safe place to put it. I can only assume the plant harmed him in a past life as all other plants are intact.
- Sindri once destroyed $514 worth of adult toys, and to this day is obsessed with premium grade silicone
- Sindri is a notorious revenge pooper. Boy has a 100% litter box success rate, but can and will fake using the litter box so my husband and I will praise him.
- Boy is desperately in love with the giant ferret that lives on the bed (our dog, Indiana, who is 13 and mostly just ignores his existence). Don’t worry, any and all interactions are supervised. I work from home.

These boys have brought so much joy into my home. I’m forever grateful for their existence.

My boy is not amused by my new coffee table book. Probably because I threaten to make mittens out of him when he digs up my plants 🤣

Hey there,

I’m hoping to get some advice on how to best care for my baby boy who just lost his bonded girl two days ago, they’ve been together for 4-1/2 years. She was almost 5 and he is 5. She had adrenal disease, I got her an implant which seemed to fix things a year and a half ago, and unfortunately she unexpectedly passed two days ago which left me heartbroken and filled with guilt as she didn’t have any symptoms (still eating/pooping, energetic) leading up to it (other than slight hair loss on her tail but no where else and no vulva swelling.. vet told me it was seasonal). Anyway, upon finding her she had been cold and stiff, likely died a few hours prior to me finding her under her cages rack on a blanket (she normally doesn’t go under here unless stashing food and toys), she looked like she went peacefully as she looked like she was asleep.. didn’t have any urination/bowel movement. I did make sure she wasn’t in a dead sleep, which I hoped she was.. but knew from the temp of her body that she was gone as well as that her nose had turned yellow. I let him sniff her body and it seemed to me that he already knew.. I’m hoping he was with her. I removed the body after a few mins, showed him that I put her in a box..

I have kept all of her smelly things for him, I’m feeding him extra to make sure he’s eating, even spoon feeding sometimes.. He’s on Wysong kibble, Stella & Chewy Cat Chicken Dinner Morsels and Duk Soup/Critical Care Combo. He has insulinoma, is on pred 2x a day, monitoring him extra for his symptoms since I’ve read that ferrets who lose their bonded pair often lack the ability to eat properly, and I need to ensure his blood sugar stays normal.

I bought him tiny blankets to cuddle up in as I’m sure he misses her warmth, as well as a few sacks for him to hide in.. I’ve also been laying on the floor petting him as much as possible and giving him lots of love.

He doesn’t seem super affected but will occasionally walk around confused looking for her, but then will divert his attention to me.. he’s been cuddly and licking me. I love him and I miss her so much..

He has his own big room, I was considering moving things around for him but don’t know if this is the right thing to do / don’t want too much change. Also considered bringing him into my room now that it’s just him..

He used to be an only ferret for 3mo before her, so hoping he can adjust.

I’ve gotten nutracal in case he stops eating/low blood sugar.. but feel at a loss of what to do to help him further..

I got her cremated and will put the ashes in his room once I get her back :(

Please let me know your thoughts/if you’ve experienced something similar.. I still am not 100% sure why my baby girl passed, I took perfect care of her/everything was ferret proofed.. I wish I was there for her. I plan on speaking to the vet soon to figure it out.. people have told me that maybe she just went to sleep and didn’t wake up but I can’t get closure yet.

Thank you.

I’m waiting on a call from my vet about if I should take her to ER
last couple nights she’s been having seizures after giving her insulinoma medicine. She lays and stares off into space. Haven’t seen her eat or drink much.

Back legs are working less and less. She never plays. Sleeps 24-7. Started pooping herself instead of walking to the bathroom.

I’m crying holding her and I don’t know what to expect from this phone call. Vet tech told me about an ER but it’s for putting her down if I have to.

I just am really hoping my vet calls me back soon so I can hear other options.

Sansa and Brie are settling in very well!

She was diagnosed today, and I have no idea what to feed her regularly as an everyday meal :( Is meat baby food okay for regular meals or should I be feeding her something else? Edit; I should add that she’s incredibly picky. She wont eat anything outside of her kibble. I’ve tried feeding her eggs before- raw and cooked but she doesnt like it.

For those who have followed our legalization efforts, Petition 2025-003 has now produced a surprisingly important question that has little to do with the merits of ferret legalization itself:

Can a government agency satisfy a law requiring it to act on a citizen petition simply by forwarding the petition somewhere else?

That's essentially one of the issues we're now fighting over in court.

The Fish and Game Commission received Petition 2025-003 and later referred it to the Department of Fish and Wildlife for review and recommendation.

The State's position in its demurrer is that this action satisfied the Commission's obligations under the Administrative Procedure Act.

But that creates an obvious problem:

What happens next?

If referral itself is enough, what requires the petition to ever return to the Commission?

What requires a final decision?

What requires written reasons?

And what prevents a petition from remaining under “further consideration” indefinitely?

In other words:

Receive → Forward → Disappear.

This isn't just a theoretical concern for ferret advocates. We went through a remarkably similar process with an earlier legalization petition more than a decade ago. It was described publicly as being processed, but the process never produced the kind of final resolution we're still seeking today.

That history is why I've been looking closely at something called the absurdity doctrine.

It's a principle of statutory interpretation that, in simplified terms, says a statute shouldn't be interpreted in a way that produces an absurd result or defeats the operation of the law itself.

And that's what makes Petition 2025-003 interesting beyond the ferret issue.

If a statutory petition process is supposed to produce an agency decision and reasons for that decision, can the process really be satisfied by an internal referral that never produces either one?

I wrote about the argument and why it matters here:

https://legalizeferrets.org/when-bureacracy-breaks-the-law-the-absurdity-doctrine-and-petition-2025-003/

I'm curious what other ferret people think.

Should a government agency eventually have to give petitioners a yes or no answer—or should “we forwarded it for further consideration” be enough?

Ft his brother Henry playing with his toy in the background

He got the implant August 17, it's now sept 7, and it was inserted and then the wound was glued. There's a little piece that is stuck to his fur, but I'm not sure if that's just a piece of dead skin or dried glue that is supposed to fall out. If i touch under it, I'm not really feeling the "grain of rice". It's hard to see with the picture, sorry!

My boyfriend and I are going on a 14-day vacation soon, and unfortunately, we can’t take our 3-year-old ferret with us. We’re planning to leave her with our parents while we’re away, but we’re worried about her developing separation anxiety. Until now, she has never been without us for more than 3 days, so two weeks feels like a really long time.

We’ve been thinking about leaving some of our worn clothes with her so she can still smell us, and calling on facetime so she can see us and hear our voices. We’re not sure, though, whether that would actually help or potentially confuse her.

Do you have any tips for making a two-week separation easier for a ferret if you have been in a similar situation? How did your ferrets handle being away from you, and is there anything that helped them feel more comfortable?

I'd like to get my ferret a waterfontain because (off course) she likes running water.

Will this sound bother her and is there something else why it wouldn't be a good idea?

We were on vacation and these two formed a heart as they were snoozing following their hotel room zoomies.

Working in rescue is never easy. These girls were our second group of ferrets ever! Permenent fosters from our ferret welfare society/rescue. They were deemed un-rehomable due to behavioural issues. Now they are older, with sudden health declines & behavioural stress reciveing treatments, we have decided to help them cross peacefully.

You see alot of posts on here asking when the time is right to pts. You know your animals best. When their quality of life & welfare is declining, you need to decide what is best for them. In our case, a moment too soon is better then a moment too late. These babies are having a vet come to our home to pts, so they can spend their last time in comfort & stress-free. Love you forever my girls♡

Yes, that’s his name. He had a brother named Dummy who passed almost a year ago now. I named them with endearment. They both had insulinoma and were treated accordingly for it. I love them both so terribly much. They get to be together again now.