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Post by Deleted on Apr 6, 2011 14:26:29 GMT -5
I gave the ferrets their first proper chunks of raw meat today and instead of eating it they decided to decorate the cage with it. The meat is now carefully arranged in corners and draped over the sides and they look rather pleased with the results. They're such perfectionists! They like to have their toys and bed arranged in a certain way which to me looks untidy but if I move them they look at me as if to say, "That doesn't go THERE Mummy!" and promptly move it back. How do your ferrets decorate their homes?  |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 6, 2011 15:30:51 GMT -5
ROFL  I have heard the terms "ferret redecorating" and "ferret furniture" before. The first one being what you're talking about, and the latter being what people have to do to ferret proof an area ;D As far as ferret redecorating goes, this is the reason everything in the cage is thoroughly ATTACHED to the cage  If it's not, you can bet it's going to be moved  When my guys DID have stuff loose in the cage, their octoplay thing (that was previously on the top shelf of the FN) ended up being pushed off the shelf and attempted to pull it through the hole by one of the tentacles, leading to the bottom half of the FN  I also used to let them have their mini orbee bones (a tough toy made for dogs) in the cage, and they would all stash them in different areas of the cage (so there was CONSTANT rearranging) Sometimes, the stash spots were underneath a low-hanging hammock or under one of their beds, and someone would be sleeping in one while another would be trying to stash them underneath, waking up the one sleeping in the bed. They would nudge the bed upwards to get their bones under them, practically throwing the fert sleeping in it out! When traveling with them, their travel cage (a big cloth kennel) is extremely difficult to arrange in a way that they can't rearrange everything, since it doesn't have much for me to attach things too Bantha and Sari are constantly moving the litterbox. I always find Bantha sleeping behind it That's about all I can remember for now |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 6, 2011 15:38:29 GMT -5
Jack without fail, will always move his marshalls octopus or his marshalls alligator into the nearest litter box and then sleep inside. I've stopped giving them to him lately because its so gross...
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Post by Deleted on Apr 6, 2011 15:52:51 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Apr 6, 2011 16:45:40 GMT -5
my joe used to do that, he would cram the stuffed animals under the TV stand and if you took them out he would go and stuff them back under. he also hid them in the closet as well.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 6, 2011 18:34:59 GMT -5
yeah...after I feed them I always end up finding peices of meat everywhere but the food bowl!
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Post by Sherry on Apr 6, 2011 19:22:47 GMT -5
Let's see. Bedding is all attached. Some of the litter boxes aren't, and wind up in various directions and spots on the bottom level. If I forget and put the dish with their commercial raw on the shelf with Suki in there, it promptly winds up being tipped up sideways between the shelf and cage wall, and all the food on the floor . Either that, or pushed off the shelf and up ended in the litter box(she does NOT like going back into the cage ). For food. If it's whole prey, the insides are suddenly on the cage bars, wall behind the cage, cage floor, bedding, etc. They don't like the digestive tract evidently Meat of course immediately gets hidden under bedding, in corners, behind the aforementioned moved litter box. And of course we can't forget the unjustly imprisoned water!!! ;D |
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Post by lc on Apr 6, 2011 19:40:30 GMT -5
ah well the kit usually puts raw in the food bowl with the other ferrets kibble but he throws all the kibble out of the bowl.  he will sit front half in the bowl and knock the dry kibble all out. |
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Post by Sherry on Apr 6, 2011 22:40:00 GMT -5
He knows what kibble is good for- a dig box ;D
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he will sit front half in the bowl and knock the dry kibble all out.