places to hide things?

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Do any of you ever give your ferrets multiple things to hide food and other things in, inside their cage? My fuzz have a food den they have been putting their food in to eat it, but since i gave them that rabbit, they have been going crazy trying to hide pieces of it places. Under the litterbox, inside hammocks, under pillows, one even carried the whole head into the regular food bowl. LOL
So I was wondering, do any of you use things like branches, rocks, boxes or other things in their cages so they can hide stuff?

[Heather]

My guys hide their food all over the place. I noticed this morning that a rabbit leg, sans meat but with foot still attached was on it's way down to the ferret play pen. Originally, Thor had stashed it in the tunnel run, but Odin was dragging it down to the pen. I don't want to know where I'm going to find it, probably under the play slide or in the dig box . As it doesn't really have much meat on it I will probably let it be do be consumed by the ferrets and then various ground creatures that live out there. My guys are rarely caged except for a couple of hours sleeping, so there is nothing in their cages except sleepy stuff, but that doesn't mean that the odd mouse or quail piece doesn't find itself stashed in a hammy or behind a litter box
ciao

[katt]

Koda usually stashes meat under the shelf cover. But not always, so I forget...then I sit there going MAN why does my room smell SO BAD?!?!?!?! Peek under the shelf cover and sure enough there's a rotting carcass of something under there. Remove it and wow...my room magically smells better. No more dead rotting corpse smell! ;D I also have foraging toys not for THEM To hide things in, but for ME to hide things in for them to find.

[Sherry]

Mine also hide things under/in bedding and behind the litter box for me to find a few days later
Only one group will use the feeding den in the cage. The others all take the meat out and stash it aroun.

[Deleted]

nice! Yea, I plan on moving within the next few months and making a room and or outdoor enclosure for them to be in most of the time and then come in at night. right now I am in a small apartment with a lot of stuff, and places that they can get to, that would take me putting some effort into to move things in order to find any wrotting anything they might hide, so i feed them in their cage and let them out to run when all their food has been eaten. hence the reason they hadn't had much play time in 2 days. they had half a rabbit in their cage, and I am constantly finding rascal trying to take pieces of meat out of the cage to stash elsewhere in teh apartment. LOL 'sorry rascal, you might enjoy the smell, but I don't'

[katt]

Why not just close the cage? That's what I do. My boys ONLY eat in the cage, and when they are out to play their cage is closed. I free range feed so there's almost always food in the cage.

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If your feeding them raw outside of their cage, why not train them where they can stash their food? I bet it would be harder with multiple ferrets conspiring with each other.. Anyway I have my boy trained to take him food and stash in a cardboard box (beside my bed of all places). Easy to clean up after and just need to have a good supply of boxes.

^^ Or Hurricanekatt said it, feed them in their cage.

[Heather]

I will have to get you to teach my furry fiends to keep their stashing to more easily accessible and correct spots That rabbits foot came back. It was back in the house this evening...my husband stepped on it when he pulled back the sheets to get into bed. It seems that the long bedskirts served as a comfortable feeding den for some fuzz. It will have to have been someone in Fun-Go's business...they were the ones with access to the outdoors today .
ciao

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I think you all misunderstood me. I was saying do you ever put things in their cage so they can hide things IN THEIR CAGE. Now, if I move, I want to make a ferret room or outdoor enclosure that I would then let them eat in and stash things in. But until then, they stay in their cage. LOL tHANKs though!

[katt]

Fleapop I understood your original question I was just responding to the direction the convo had taken, sorry. I don't put anything in the cage for them other than their feeding den, because their feeding den is where I Want them to Keep their food. Obviously it doesn't always work out that way... lmao I do use foraging toys though so they get the natural experience of searching for and puzzling how to get to their food.

[revolvingsheep]

Sept 10, 2011 3:11:41 GMT -5 katt said:

Fleapop I understood your original question I was just responding to the direction the convo had taken, sorry. I don't put anything in the cage for them other than their feeding den, because their feeding den is where I Want them to Keep their food. Obviously it doesn't always work out that way... lmao I do use foraging toys though so they get the natural experience of searching for and puzzling how to get to their food.

What foraging toys do you suggest?

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I use cardboard soda boxes for food stashing. I also have a plastic "eating area" because my kids are not good with bowls. Dixie tries to bring them down the stairs (bad for liver soup days) and Pixie hates getting her whiskers dirty.