dnrfl
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Post by dnrfl on Jul 30, 2023 21:33:40 GMT -5
Hello! I have two young female ferrets, one is 1 year old and the other one is 2. I had the older one for a year after getting the second one. I rarely see they playing with each other (wrestling, running), I think they just ''tolerate'' each other since they sleep together, but they don't seem to engage with each other at all. Rarely are the occasions where they do play together, most of them when they are on a new exciting place.
I have a pretty stimulating room for them, but my apartment is in Japanese-size style and it's very tiny for us. Still, I manage to have three tubes along the house, many hiding beds, a comfortable cage with hammocks and toys around and rice boxes. But they don't seem to engage on those at all. They sleep for most of the day, I see that they pace out real easy, and go back to sleep. They don't engage in playing activities in any ''living'' spaces they are anymore. They just engage outside (which is really hard for me) since I can't go out in the common areas of my building because there are always people around and they hate walking on a leash. What are your thoughts?
I'm feeling really bad seeing them not interested in any activities but still, their vet check-ups and blood tests are perfectly fine.  
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Post by unclejoe on Aug 1, 2023 16:47:02 GMT -5
Hi. I've not seen ferrets play in a cage very much, no matter what toys are there. They need room to move. I currently have 2 that play together, but it often looks like fighting, as one is a nearly 3 lb male and the other a 1.5 lb female, which i got at different times. I know it's play because Lilly goes after Bobo as much as he chases her. Try playing with them. Every ferret I've had (30 total) loves plastic grocery bags. The will go inside the bag, then i drag them around the floor or swing them gently. They generally like cat teasers and dig boxes filled with uncooked rice or garden soil, but their attention span is short, so you have to mix it up. No guarantee they will play together, but at least they get along. Fom my experience, males stay more playful as they age
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Post by silentdook on Aug 2, 2023 16:14:23 GMT -5
In my long experience with differing numbers of groups, from solos to over a dozen, when there are only two, they seem to get more excited about playing with our engagement. The same environment (and they have an entire room to themselves plus an outdoor enclosure) no matter how big is just boring without a human around or a rearrangement of the layout. Move something each day and move the tubes around. Our last two girls are getting older and only really play first thing in the morning, sometimes noonish if I go in and move things, and then early evening. It's all normal for them. Ferrets do sleep a lot once they aren't babies.
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