They’ll go to great lengths to get just a few drops out of the smallest containers, like this yogurt jar.  Bun is determined to get a drop out of the bottom, so he has put his entire head inside the jar, ears flattened.  He’s just not worried about it at all.

High quality scoopable litter sand is absolutely required. Ferrets are prolific and you need all the breaks you can get. Don’t buy cheap because this is not an area where you want to try and save a few pennies. For the tiny amount of money you will save by buying cheap brand scoopable litter, you will bring upon yourself many headaches and disgusting occurrences. For a little more money, get the good stuff. Makes lifting those little sculptures out really easy, quick, and odorless.

Arm & Hammer is the best scoopable litter, hands down.

Turn this one on and watch your ferret become the fighting machine he’s known to be in the wild. Like a bloodhound on a trail, your ferret won’t let the business end of this ferret toy out of his sight or far from his nose as he follows it across the room. This is a team effort, since owner must operate toy for the game to really work.

Price: $200 and up, depending on how much you want to pamper your ferret. Bonus is, you get clean floors everytime you play.

Another ferret classic is the plastic bottle cap. This can not only be dragged and pushed around by your ferret, but also serves to hone his ferreting instincts. Yes, just leave a few of these around and after tossing them about for a few days, your ferret will hide them safely away in hidden corners of your home.

Price: $.89 including soda for you.

This easy to find ferret toy will entertain you and your ferret for hours. Watch as ferrets grab the “kay kay” as it’s called with a body hug and drag it backwards. The kay kay brings out a dragging instinct in every ferret. Ferrets will drag and drag backwards without really knowing why, just knowing it feels right.

Price: about $.89 after you strip the paper off the roll, and the ferrets can even help you with that.

Well, a shower and a little shampoo wil have them fluffy and clean again. I’ve never used expensive specialized ferret shampoo on any ferret I’ve ever had, and they’ve all been fine. Some will say ferret’s skin dries out easily so special shampoos or a dip in conditioner is required, but I’ve never had to do this. I”ve never had a ferret with dry skin.  I have even known a ferret whose owner used a hair dryer on her after showering, with no skin problems.

I also keep a flea comb handy not for fleas but for combing their fur. If your ferret’s coat starts to feel “wiry”, then a good combing can take out the extra hairs that produce the wiry feeling. This happens especially in sprintime. when ferrets shed their winter coats.

As with dog and cat toys, many of them on the market will not interest your pet at all. Put your ferret in front of a $12 ferret toy and an empty toilet paper roll, and see which he prefers. Because of their hyper sensitivity to their surroundings, ferrets notice everything in their environment, and will investigate everything they can get to, in order to see if it has potential for playtime or for eating.

Biting is a ferret’s response to something problematic in his life, a behavioral problem where you have to look at the environment and see what needs changing. In most cases, it’s because the ferret is not getting any attention from its owner, perhaps spends the entire day in a cage with little or no time with people.

Remember, ferrets are very social by nature, and love attention. The more you handle them, the more comfortable they are around people, and less apt they are to bite. If you have a “biter”, try some extra attention, some TLC. It may take some time for the ferret to adapt to all the attention but if you are persistent it should help the situation.

You also don’t have to buy special shaped litter boxes. Ferrets don’t care what shape the box is, as long as it’s in a corner and clean. Scoopable litter is best, since you can get rid of liquids fast and easily.