Ferrets In The Snow

[Rhiannon]

omg so cute.

I will show my husband when he gets home.

He had a ferret once, it was like his baby, it slept with him.

And gosh it was a horder. Hid everything behind the tv cabnit. Little bits of paper, tin foil, you name it.

We saw them for sale the other day and were so tempted to buy one, but we decided against it because we thought our cat would hunt it down and kill it unfortunatly.

And the snow, omg, I have never seen snow before in real life.

 

[AndyDrew]

arnt they cute .. id have some but got 3 cats

 

[ImperfectFaerie]

I don't know, they might put up a fight against the cats they are kind of ninjalike, all stealth-y in thier attacks (they're constantly play-wrestling/fighting/being goofy)

 

[timmystood]

Ferrets and cats should mix ok. We have 2 cats a god knows how many ferrets and have never had any problems. The cats usually stay away from the ferrets to be honest.
Rhinannon, you have to be careful of ferrets in Australia because it is illegal in some states to keep them (which I can fully understand, we have already ruined your fantastic country by introducing too many different animals).
Thanks Tsi_user I will put a couple of the pictures in our gallery. Just one point though (without trying to sound like one of those annoying I-know-it-all people!) You shouldn't really keep ferrets in beds of shredded newspaper or magazines as the ink used in them is poisonous to ferrets if it gets onto their fur and then they lick it off... newspaper is ok to use a toilet area but not really as a bed! Thanks again for the photographs! I'll put them up tonight!

 

[Tokis-Phoenix]

Omg your ferrets are so cute Tsi_User ! Looks like they had a great time too in the snow .

 

[Tsi_User]

Ferrets and cats should mix ok. We have 2 cats a god knows how many ferrets and have never had any problems. The cats usually stay away from the ferrets to be honest.
Rhinannon, you have to be careful of ferrets in Australia because it is illegal in some states to keep them (which I can fully understand, we have already ruined your fantastic country by introducing too many different animals).
Thanks Tsi_user I will put a couple of the pictures in our gallery. Just one point though (without trying to sound like one of those annoying I-know-it-all people!) You shouldn't really keep ferrets in beds of shredded newspaper or magazines as the ink used in them is poisonous to ferrets if it gets onto their fur and then they lick it off... newspaper is ok to use a toilet area but not really as a bed! Thanks again for the photographs! I'll put them up tonight!

Glad to hear you like the pics, about the shredded paper, i've actually moved over to just plain shredded paper so they should be good

Tokis-Phoenix- Thanks, they are the children of myself and ImperfectFaerie

 

[grahamsokel]

They are both gorgeous.
My two play with our cat and the dogs

 

[Rhiannon]

I will tell my hubby they mix ok with cats.

But my cat is a siamese, and they are born to hunt and kill, and he catches rats, mice, birds you name it, it ends up on my door step, thats all I am worried about.

 

[timmystood]

I'm more than happy to come out there as your personal advisor Rihannon (all costs covered of course!) -- Any chance to get back to the best place in the world!

 

[pica_nuttalli]

you have to remember that a ferret is not a rodent, but is a carnivorous predator just like a cat. if anything, i would be concerned for the cat since ferrets are a bit "closer" to their wild state than the common domestic kitty.

 

[Tsi_User]

I will tell my hubby they mix ok with cats.

But my cat is a siamese, and they are born to hunt and kill, and he catches rats, mice, birds you name it, it ends up on my door step, thats all I am worried about.

You might be surprised by this, but some people actually feed their ferrets pre-killed mice and rats . When you see them flopping around and acting silly that's the last thing you'd expect them to eat but they are definately carnivores.

 

[timmystood]

you have to remember that a ferret is not a rodent, but is a carnivorous predator just like a cat. if anything, i would be concerned for the cat since ferrets are a bit "closer" to their wild state than the common domestic kitty.

There is no such thing as wild ferret actually.

 

[ImperfectFaerie]

What about the black-footed ferrets and all that jazz? I thought they were wild?

 

[Rhiannon]

I'm more than happy to come out there as your personal advisor Rihannon (all costs covered of course!) -- Any chance to get back to the best place in the world!

lol and yes we do live in the best country in the world!

 

[pica_nuttalli]

you have to remember that a ferret is not a rodent, but is a carnivorous predator just like a cat. if anything, i would be concerned for the cat since ferrets are a bit "closer" to their wild state than the common domestic kitty.

There is no such thing as wild ferret actually.

really. are they merely a domestic form of the weasel then? or are all the wild populations extinct? i am *most* intrigued now; i could have sworn that the ferret was in essence a wild species that had only been "domesticated" in the last few centuries or so.

--EDIT--
although a few hundred years sounds like a long time (now that i write it plainly), my earlier comment about the relative lack of cat wildness relates to the fact that cats have been domestic for easily a thousand years