Finicky!

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My little baby fuzzy is proving to be entirely FINICKY!

He basically has no interest in any kind of toy. The only thing he wants to play with is my blanket! I smush it up into a ball and he goes nuts climbing on top of it and burrowing through it.

He has no interest in tunneling tubes, boxes, plastic bags, or plastic toys. You name it - he walks right past it. Every time I let him out of his cage for play time, he goes straight for my bed and isn't happy until he's burrowing in my blanket.

Also, he has no interest in sleeping in any kind of bedding, either! I've tried a couple different kinds of hammocks and beds, and what he does instead is pushes everything aside and sleeps in the middle of the hard plastic floor of his cage!

And here's the kicker (for me, anyway) - he absolutely will not eat his food out of any sort of container. Whether it's a bowl or some kind of dispenser, he will not eat it unless it's off the hard plastic floor of his cage.

(there IS bedding on the floor of his cage, by the way.. he pushes it all to the corners)

I don't mind any of this, of course, I guess I just feel like the little guy is missing out (and slightly weird ). I feel bad when I go to check on him and he's lying on the cold hard plastic floor of his cage! I want him to be warm and safe and happy.

Not really sure where I'm going with this - just looking to hear others' experiences with finicky fuzzies.

[loveless]

Well I haven't had a ferret that finicky but one of my rabbits acted exactly the same way your fuzzie did. She was vehemently against any sort of bedding and would also cram it all into a corner if not out entirely. hated her food bowl.

I wound up litter training her and afterwards I carpeted her entire pen with a very short carpet. An inexpensive carpet swatch was all I needed. It was rather confusing to her at first but she took to it nicely. When I feed her she eats off of a small low plate. She wasn't to fond of it but since she didn't like eating off of the carpet in her pen the plate had to do.

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My girl Riley won't snuggle with blankets. She will for a night or two then it goes into her litter box...I guess that's her saying, "Take a hint mom." lol So in our new cage I'm setting up, I made the entire floor fleece...so now she has no choice but to be warm! hehe

Also, she won't eat out of a bowl either. I just let her eat off the bottom of the floor...once I start raw though, that will probably not be an issue.

Bonkers, one of my boys, doesn't play with much either. He likes a tunnel, but that's about it. He loves when I chase him around, so I try to do that as often as I can. Other than that, I'm out of ideas.

[taratee]

he sounds like a ferret to me lol he probably likes your blankets because they smell different from the tubes, if you can put the tubes outside and they might retain outside smells he might use them. now as for not using the bedding maybe hes hot? i dont know how warm your house is but i know id sleep on the floor if the bed were too warm for me. do you play chase with him? maybe he doesntknow how to play like a ferret?

consider this if your ferret werent happy he would let you know lol

[Sherry]

For playing, try things like cat teasers- anything interactive is usually a hit. If you want him playing in the tubes- drag them around, with the one end trailing the floor
As for no bedding, maybe he's too warm. They do have a high body temp. And I'm sure some are warmer than others.
How old is he, and how long have you had him again?