Baby Brie

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?

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

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 🤣

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.

Sansa and Brie are settling in very well!

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!

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 🥰

Hi All-

Looking for some insight. I have an approximately 8 year old ferret with adrenal disease that has recently started seemingly chewing in her tail until it bleeds.

I say seemingly, because we've never actually seen her chew on the tail, just the aftermath. I took her to the vet last week, they agreed thats what it looked like and prescribed an antibacterial cream. By Saturday it was fully stabbed over, but Saturday night she seemingly did it again and looks to have gone at it again today.

A few notes...

1. She lost her cage mate of 7 years in February. I decided not to get another ferret due to her age.

2. She just had blood work on Tuesday for a potential heart disorder, were waiting for the results. Unclear if she's experiencing discomfort from that

Does anyone have any experience here? Our theory is separation anxiety but really have no idea. I recognize quite old and am ready to make the tough decision if need by but am hoping someone has experience here.

My ferret has been shaking, breathing faster, and generally reacting slower. Shes spayed, almost 8 years old, and she just moved into my dorm with me. Shes been eating and drinking- and peeing and using the bathroom normally. But shes been sleeping a lot more and shes been acting weird today specifically. I called the vet and they told me to bring her in tomorrow: was just wondering if anybody knows what this could be because im seriously freaking out.

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?

i recently also invested in a pet carriage for them, bonnie and lilly, and every time i leave their room they whine.

would i stress them out if i took them to the park? or would it be safe?

Hi, I have two young male ferrets (12 weeks old) from the same litter. Rocket and Noodle.

Both are sweet and very social. They also enjoy sleeping side by side and overall seem to get along nicely.

They share a two level ferret nation cave and I let them free roam multiple times a day for about 3-4 hours in total. They still sleep a lot and often get themselves back in the cage when they are done playing.

Rocket is more dominant and often initiates fights/wrestles with noodle.

Noodle engages in the fights and attacks back and even though they are quite vocal, it doesn't seem like Noodle is being overpowered too much. He enjoys jumping on top of Rocket too.

I had ferrets before, but they were always a male-female combination. I never had just two boys.

The playing is way rougher that I can remember from the previous couples i had.

And Noodle now has a pink bald spot in his neck that doesn't look wet, punctured or very sore. I have never seen blood. A couple of days ago it started and now it is a bit bigger and It looks like it has been licked a lot. It is still pinkish and bald.

I have just separated them in different levels of te cage, because I suspect that Rocket is either still biting too hard or aggressively licking Noodles neck/wound.

I will plan a visit with the vet tomorrow morning.

I have so many questions:

Does this sound like normal behaviour for two male kits?

Does it sound like two brothers still learning how to play less rough.

Or does it sound like aggression that I need to address with training?

Was it unwise of me to get two males, instead of a male-female combo?

Could the pink spot in the neck be caused by something else? (Like the first vaccine they got a couple of weeks ago)

Will it cause problems later on when I reunite them again?

Any other tips?