Post by chiara on Dec 5, 2022 5:26:51 GMT -5
Hello,
You may have seen from my other post I have been looking to rescue a friend for my single female ferret. I tried a male from one of my friends but it wasn't a good match and the owner decided he was best where he was. I went to my local shelter last week and I picked up a little girl called daisy, she is between 6 months and a year, my original girl is between 1 year and 1 and a half years. She has been with us 1 week now, she is great. For the first 3 days I just swapped blankets etc and let them sniff through cages. The next few days I let them out together, Lola is very interested in following her around, few poofs on the first meeting, and a lot of loud noise but no action, I continued to monitor 20 minute sessions twice a day for the next couple of days. When they are both heading to a corner area I normally pick one up and move them as don't want them in a small area and feeling backed up, today's session I just let them do what they would do. They both climbed in to my original ferrets bed and there was lots of rolling around and low ferret dook noises with a couple of high pitch ones, looks like they were mouthing with each other but I don't think hard? No pee or poo etc and when my girl left the bed her tail wasn't bushy. I let this go on for 5 minutes, I hope this was the right choice! I have attached the video, if you put on loud you can hear the noises and see some interactions, is this all good progress? Is it positive or negative? I really hope they become friends!! It's only been 7 days so still early but I hope I done the right thing to let them roll around. Any advice would be great.
Also something interesting, the girl I have just rehomed was found as a stray up a mountain!
photos.app.goo.gl/NUgEkhaZd4svcg967
You may have seen from my other post I have been looking to rescue a friend for my single female ferret. I tried a male from one of my friends but it wasn't a good match and the owner decided he was best where he was. I went to my local shelter last week and I picked up a little girl called daisy, she is between 6 months and a year, my original girl is between 1 year and 1 and a half years. She has been with us 1 week now, she is great. For the first 3 days I just swapped blankets etc and let them sniff through cages. The next few days I let them out together, Lola is very interested in following her around, few poofs on the first meeting, and a lot of loud noise but no action, I continued to monitor 20 minute sessions twice a day for the next couple of days. When they are both heading to a corner area I normally pick one up and move them as don't want them in a small area and feeling backed up, today's session I just let them do what they would do. They both climbed in to my original ferrets bed and there was lots of rolling around and low ferret dook noises with a couple of high pitch ones, looks like they were mouthing with each other but I don't think hard? No pee or poo etc and when my girl left the bed her tail wasn't bushy. I let this go on for 5 minutes, I hope this was the right choice! I have attached the video, if you put on loud you can hear the noises and see some interactions, is this all good progress? Is it positive or negative? I really hope they become friends!! It's only been 7 days so still early but I hope I done the right thing to let them roll around. Any advice would be great.
Also something interesting, the girl I have just rehomed was found as a stray up a mountain!
photos.app.goo.gl/NUgEkhaZd4svcg967
