Pet Forum / Mammals / Ferrets / April 2007

I am thinking of getting a couple of ferrets which I would like to keep
together and let them bread.  Is it possible (recommendable) to keep
the couple (male and female) together?  Are they easy to bread?  Any
special cares?

where is everyone ?
my boys are  losing  there winter coat
and getting ready for spring/ summer
in Vermont .

This is actually another question for a friend of mine.   Her little
Mooku has been sick, and her vet prescribed Baytril, which he does not
seem to be reacting well to.
He was sick and throwing up for quite awhile, early this morning.  She

I know that in general, ferret are the domesticated species, and
polecats the ones that live in the wild. However, in New Zealand I read
that ferrets are an introduced species for like control of rabbits, and
have since survived in the wild, causing havoc on the wildlife like

Our nearly 7 year old female, Stringbean has been diagnosed with
insulinoma for almost a year now.  A rather expensive veterinarian
prescribed us some medications last summer and she's been
relativelyseizure-free since (even though we ran out by the end of

on tuesday I took Raggie for hes finnly car ride to the vets. My vet
took him in the back and put him to rest then they put him and his
planket in a nice box for me to bury him in. they wouldn't let me be
with him on his finnly breath because I was crying so hard I was

Olivia had a spay/newter done on the 5th, in the process a large tumer
was removed, which I had sent to Pathology. The bad news is that it was
Malignant, the good news is that the MD figured she got it all out. She
called me today with the results.

Only of Kimber and Regnar, it seems. Newest photo of
Dorrit is taken in November. No idea why, as she's not
really harder to photograph, I think.
http://www.canit.se/~griffon/ferrets/ferpics1/

Well Raggie not getting better he is still all bones.He is suffing so
I must do the desent thing and put him down. I feel like my heart is
being rip right out. I never had to put any of my anmils down they all
die of happy old ages. Is it going to hurt him went will happen. Could

Just curious ...
TTC

Do ferrets need distemper treatments?  I've heard that puppy distemper is not proven to be effective and feline distemper doesn't work.
Thanks
Mike

We have a new ferret we named Simba.
He was born and lived at a breeder until he was 8 months old.  During this time he lived with 5 other ferrets, in a 12 x 16  cage, which was outside with no protection from the elements or the -15 degree temperatures.
At around 8 months he was ...

Do ferrets need heart worm medications?  I've never heard of that but I'm sure there are a lot of things I've never heard of.  ; )
Thanks

For me, it was a $50 bill, obviously purloined from my purse.  I thought I'd
lost it after cashing my check, but my daughter found it when she was
cleaning out from under her bed...
But it took 2 more 'findings' before I finally trained myself to both put my

Olivia my 4 year old Angora goes in for Spay/Neuter as per agreement
with the Breeder who gave her to me. She said all the paper work for me
will be at the clinic.
I talked to her yesterday, and she asked if I wanted to give up on her.