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Post by unclejoe on May 25, 2024 15:00:53 GMT -5
I used CET poultry flavored and a child tooth brush. I really only had to brush 2 ferrets, but they were so bad 2 a week wasn't enough to keep up.
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Post by Corvidophile on May 28, 2024 16:40:07 GMT -5
Just a photo. He goes in for his next shot, distemper, in about a week and a half. White head spot got smaller but he’s still really fluffy, even in spring. ![](https://i.ibb.co/sgwh0m2/IMG-0417.jpg)
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Post by Corvidophile on May 30, 2024 20:03:10 GMT -5
Got the toothpaste (same as unclejoe described) and the smallest toothbrush in the drugstore marked 0-3 years old. Did a dry run yesterday with no toothpaste (it hadn’t arrived yet) and had a tough time getting to the carnassials behind the cheeks. Today with toothpaste I tried to rub his teeth with a QTip instead and mainly succeeded in pushing his head around rather than getting good purchase on the teeth, so I finished the job with the toothbrush. Had a little more luck pulling back his cheeks to get to the back teeth. He liked the flavour of the toothpaste and licked it off the QTip before he realized what I was about to do to him, haha. I couldn’t really scrub much, but I at least smeared the paste around his teeth. The enzymes are supposed to dissolve plaque? I got a good look at his mouth during the last two days and I’m not sure what the vet sees, his teeth are lightly yellowed as if he were a tea drinker, but I can’t see a lick of buildup, and his gums don’t glow at all. I scraped two canines and a carnassial with my fingernail and got nothing at all. I’ll keep trying to find a way to brush, at least smear his mouth with the toothpaste, and ask for another evaluation when he goes in on Monday. Next trial is wet washcloth corner.
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Post by Corvidophile on Jun 3, 2024 13:29:59 GMT -5
Shot got pushed back ‘til at least the 21st, they thought they had them in stock but they were all expired. Luckily got a call before we drove there. Wet washcloth worked! Got toothpaste all over his muzzle in the process, but I picked him up from a deep sleep and went in there immediately. ![](https://i.ibb.co/MkQxnSJ/IMG-0452.jpg) ![](https://i.ibb.co/nLrWqJS/IMG-0447.jpg)
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Post by unclejoe on Jun 10, 2024 16:33:55 GMT -5
sorry I've been absent. i saw you of FHL. onceo you get them accustomed to brushing with a toothpaste he likes, since you found no build up, (CEL poultry worked for me) once a week should be enough. He's so beautiful
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Post by Corvidophile on Jun 10, 2024 18:50:50 GMT -5
I was doing it every day for a while, then every other day, good to know once a week is sufficient.
I fed him some Marshall’s kibble last night to make sure he’ll still eat it, and he was so excited to have it back he hissed at my husband when the bowl of kibble didn’t enter the cage fast enough (he hisses when he wants something, don’t know why). Reason being I’m going away a day and a half and need something that won’t spoil so quickly. I know whole prey is supposed to last that long, but he won’t eat it past about six to eight hours of being out.
I also bought Instinct’s new freeze dried raw chicken recipe, I thought the ingredients were ok except for spinach’s oxalates. I convinced him to eat about seven nuggets of it, he put it in his mouth right away but took hours to eat the handful. Gave him Instinct and Marshall’s side by side last night and he didn’t even touch the Instinct by the time morning came. Sigh, I guess I’ll give him the kibble while I’m gone. Marshall’s is now $28 a bag where I am. The instinct was a better deal, $23 for a similar volume. Much lighter, of course.
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Post by unclejoe on Jun 13, 2024 20:18:27 GMT -5
pet products are getting crazy. premium kat and ferret kibble have doubled in the past 2 years. 50 puppy pads costs 3x what 30 toddler diapers do. . hissing may be laughing. I've had several ferrets do it when they get excited. Scamp, my silver mitt, had a vocabulary of at least 7 sounds.
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Post by lyles on Jun 16, 2024 18:40:49 GMT -5
pet products are getting crazy. premium kat and ferret kibble have doubled in the past 2 years. 50 puppy pads costs 3x what 30 toddler diapers do. . hissing may be laughing. I've had several ferrets do it when they get excited. Scamp, my silver mitt, had a vocabulary of at least 7 sounds. No kidding, the raw grounds I feed my two ferrets cost me an average $125/mo. I use the washable pads for mine, spraying them down with a waterhose outside before tossing in the washing machine, so I never had to buy anymore disposable bed pads (main reason is they were more interested in tearing them up than potty on them). Aron never makes a sound, but Sean is very vocal. He dooks a lot when I play with him and he whines and cry barks when playing with Aron. I thought Aron was being rough with him but he would be making those noises when he has the upper hand too. haha
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Post by Corvidophile on Jun 21, 2024 16:54:24 GMT -5
Didn’t get a call telling me not to come this time, drove to my appointment, and they were still out of stock. Looks like ferret distemper vaxes are back ordered all over the U.S.. Pushed off into the unknown. I’m not that concerned as he doesn’t go outside anyway.
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Post by Corvidophile on Jun 23, 2024 16:58:23 GMT -5
Recently rearranged his favourite room to hang out in and moved “his” Lincoln car seat sofa to a different location, he hasn’t figured out how to climb up here again yet but he’s demonstrated he can jump down, so we put him up here when he hangs around the seats and looks pleadingly. It has armrests that he has to figure out he can pass through now is the difference. ![](https://i.ibb.co/CtTP8CF/IMG-0637.jpg)
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Post by Corvidophile on Jun 25, 2024 16:35:29 GMT -5
He figured it out!
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Post by unclejoe on Jun 25, 2024 17:32:56 GMT -5
And it didn't take him long! Mr Frodo is my climber. I have had to put kat food up high so he can't get too it. It used to be on the dryer, but Sunny =kat can't jump that high anymore so I out in on the 3rd level of the kat tree, abou9t 4 ft off the floor, but Frodo found it, then he got to it on the top level. So now I have to put up the kat food whenever the ferrets are out IMG_6300 by unclejoe1158, on Flickr
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Post by Corvidophile on Jun 25, 2024 18:29:23 GMT -5
Haha, aw. Can’t be that bad for him, he can have some as a treat. I’d bought Marshall’s again as an overnight away food, and I slip him a pellet now and then as a treat. The funny thing is that if he’s provided it ad libitum he gets sick of it real quick and stops eating it, so it doesn’t even work as I intended it to. He’s gotten used to the freeze dried chicken recipe Instinct and eats that pretty well now.
I’ve been reducing the amount of pure raw I’m feeding with all these flu scares going around, aside from the Instinct mostly sticking to whole prey mice and day old chicks, eggs and heavy cream mixed with bone meal and powdered taurine and liver, and freeze dried minnows and liver. I have some raw chicken hearts and pork chops but he hasn’t eaten a pork chop chunk in a few offerings now, I guess he decided he didn’t like them, and the chicken hearts I bought in such bulk that they predate the most recent avian flu scare by months. I think I’ll switch to freeze dried hearts when I run out.
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Post by lyles on Jun 25, 2024 19:23:08 GMT -5
I don't have any cats, but I sometimes wish I could get a multi level play house for them if I wasn't worried they could fall off and hurt themselves. Both are very careful on the couch as instead of just jumping off they would turn around and slowly drop themselves (dragging their claws). I keep them well trimmed so it doesn't hurt the sofa but I have a padded matt just in case one falls.
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Post by Corvidophile on Jul 19, 2024 17:00:45 GMT -5
Just some pics and food news. Expanding his pallet with different freeze dried recipes. Found some with better ingredients than Instinct- Vital Essentials and Rawbble. The spinach in Instinct makes me nervous to feed long term, and I believe the clay in it blocks some nutrient absorption, just as it blocks poison and medication absorption. Useful to have around and more palatable than trying to get them to eat charcoal in case of emergency ingestion of poisons before a vet visit, but I don’t like clay in a regular food. He likes the Vital Essentials rabbit, and the Rawbble chicken recipe hasn’t come yet, I ordered it on Amazon on Prime day without a Prime subscription by coincidence and the delivery date was pushed back by weeks because of the tremendous volume of orders. Rawbble includes a little pumpkin purée in their foods, which I’m not afraid of. ![](https://i.ibb.co/WfgqWxn/IMG-0806.jpg) ![](https://i.ibb.co/LNMCQmx/IMG-0681.jpg) ![](https://i.ibb.co/JFn3ZRF/IMG-0842.jpg) His winter white forehead spot has entirely shed away as of a few weeks ago.
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