Nip training.

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My female Ditta is a bit of a nipper, at anytime, you cannot put your hands in front of her face or she will bite. Usually it is just a nip, and let go, but Friday she bit my brother pretty hard, and drew blood. My ferrets are around children, adults, and elderly, so biting is not acceptable. 

I've had them both since July of this year, Ditta is 2 years, and 5 months.

When I first got her she was always nipping, with the scruff method, she started to bite less, and now with the raw diet it is less. But she is still nipping.

So far, I've done the scruff and hiss method.
Dragging on carpet method.
The jail method.
And feeding her olive oil off my fingers.

But still she is nipping. 

What is the best method to use when dealing with something like this.

[Sherry]

Scruffing has never worked completely for nipping/biting. Mum only does this until they are about 3 weeks old. After that the only scruff/pin/drag is by sibs who are dominating them.
And dominating an animal is very negative. How would you react if someone pinned you to the wall when you screwed up? I know I'd get real p*ssed real fast.
Anyway- what if found worked best was a combination of 3 minute time outs combined with "ignore". Play nips that are too hard I get up and walk away and completely ignore them. I do this as often as I need to. If the nips start becoming bites that's where a small empty cat carrier comes in. No more than 3 minutes or they forget why they are in there. And no matter how much they rage in the carrier they come out after 3 minutes. They are in there for biting- not raging. If they bite when they come out right back in for another 3 minutes and so on. Sooner or later they equate biting with utter boredom.
Consistency is the key to this. And everyone has to do the same thing.

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My Ponce never bit us, but he would get over excited when new people came in the house. He would always try to nip any quest, who held out their hand or tried to hold him. We finally just learned to hold him and let everyone see him and then we would put him in the bedroom, and close the door. He never tried nipping after he was familiar with someone, just when they were new. I'd follow Sherry's advice and then maybe when you have children or elder quests over, let him stay in his cage or in a quiet, closed off room.

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Hank starts to grab wrists and hands when playing around, if he starts trying to bite too hard, I just tell him easy and he gets the hint. Somewhere on here a man posted about how to get them to stop, maybe he will chime in.