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How to Get a Ferret to Hold Still for a Picture

By cat On November 25, 2011 · Add Comment · In My Ferrets
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Bun has learned all about treats, and he’s very adept at picking up signals from me about when they are forthcoming.  The first step to photographing your ferret is to condition him to treat-giving culture.  If you can teach your ferret to respond to stimuli, then you can use that stimuli to make him do [...]
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Have You Seen My Bucket?

By cat On November 22, 2011 · Add Comment · In Things Ferrets Do
Sorry, that was just a reference to internet silliness with the walrus-bucket saga stuff.  What I really wanted to talk about is ferrets and buckets.  If you didn’t know this already, ferrets have strange reactions to large bowls and buckets.  By strange I mean after encountering a large plastic bowl or bucket, a ferret will [...]
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New Sleeping Quarters

By cat On September 29, 2011 · 1 Comment · In Ferret Care
Ferrets can’t wait to get up in the morning and see what’s new.  It’s so adorable, all that optimism right away.  You can see it in the way they scamper out of bed, hit the litter box, and run out of the bedroom all perky and excited.  Pig does her daily perimeter run, sniffing all [...]
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Scoop Dreams in a Nutshell- How to Litter Train Your Ferret

By cat On August 23, 2011 · 1 Comment · In Ferret Care
put the litter box next to where they sleep you may have to control where they sleep so the litter box can be nearby the first thing you do when you get a clean new litter box is to put a little ferret poop in the back corner Simply removing chunks from scoopable litter isn’t [...]
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Scoop Dreams IV- Where to Put your Ferret’s Litter Box

By cat On August 6, 2011 · Add Comment · In Ferret Care
Now we know that ferrets like clean litter boxes and we also know what type of litter works best for their fastidiousness.  There’s one more element to the trickery that goes on when it comes to manipulating your ferret into using the box every time.  And that’s placement. Ferrets, like cats, sleep most of the [...]
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