Post by Guest on Oct 23, 2012 16:17:14 GMT -5
Hi All,
I moved to NSW at the start of 2012 from Darwin where ferrets are not allowed. Upon buying our own home my family joked that we needed a garage cat and so my husband announced that we would have a garage ferret!! i was hugely sceptically about this until we found a tiny baby in a pet shop. She was beautiful and even at 7 weeks didn't bite unless she wanted something. We had Zoey for 5 months and she passed away after having several strokes.
Since then we took on two boys from the ferret society. Digga and Dozer were 5 months when we got them and are now 9 months old. Digga came to us unhandled and would bite at everything from being picked up to feeding time. we have since broken this habit through hand feeding and keeping hold of him when he bites (he uses biting to get his own way ie put down to run). Dozer bites for play only as he was a favorite and handled regularly. My boys are brothers and most defiantly identical twins. luckily they have different personalities otherwise my family would never tell them apart. they both currently weigh 1.4kgs each and i am hoping feeding completely raw will bring them to their optimum weight.
I have joined this forum to feed a complete raw diet, currently feeding a mix of kibble and cat barf, hoping to reduce feeding costs (sounds bad but my boys eat so much and kibble is expensive!!) and my husband would like them to weigh 2kgs each without over feeding them (a couple of blokes he works with didn't believe they were that big until they seen them) so that is our motivation to feed raw.
Thank you all for what i know will be extensive help in me gaining the knowledge to complete my feeding raw process.
I moved to NSW at the start of 2012 from Darwin where ferrets are not allowed. Upon buying our own home my family joked that we needed a garage cat and so my husband announced that we would have a garage ferret!! i was hugely sceptically about this until we found a tiny baby in a pet shop. She was beautiful and even at 7 weeks didn't bite unless she wanted something. We had Zoey for 5 months and she passed away after having several strokes.
Since then we took on two boys from the ferret society. Digga and Dozer were 5 months when we got them and are now 9 months old. Digga came to us unhandled and would bite at everything from being picked up to feeding time. we have since broken this habit through hand feeding and keeping hold of him when he bites (he uses biting to get his own way ie put down to run). Dozer bites for play only as he was a favorite and handled regularly. My boys are brothers and most defiantly identical twins. luckily they have different personalities otherwise my family would never tell them apart. they both currently weigh 1.4kgs each and i am hoping feeding completely raw will bring them to their optimum weight.
I have joined this forum to feed a complete raw diet, currently feeding a mix of kibble and cat barf, hoping to reduce feeding costs (sounds bad but my boys eat so much and kibble is expensive!!) and my husband would like them to weigh 2kgs each without over feeding them (a couple of blokes he works with didn't believe they were that big until they seen them) so that is our motivation to feed raw.
Thank you all for what i know will be extensive help in me gaining the knowledge to complete my feeding raw process.
Glad you were able to rescue two ferrets though. 
Nice to see you rescued the other 2! 
i think its going to be customary to post pics!! LOL~