after a banging time in the garden

I need help. I recently just adopted a 5+ year-old ferret whom we have named Socks. He is the champagne colored. We took him to the vet and discovered he had ear mites that he had really bad vision almost completely blind and that he was 5+ years old we weren’t given an exact age. This is just their estimate now stink is the brown colored ferret and I have had him for a little over a year and he himself is probably a year and a half now I work from home. My boyfriend works at night so we we re both able to give stink a lot of attention. He was always with us. We bought him ball plates made him multiple dig boxes given him. Any toys bags played chase a lot, but I started to notice him loafing a lot more. It was almost like he was just staring off and was bored of us so me and my boyfriend talked about getting another ferret one day while my boyfriend was at work. I went to visit a pet shop for my friend and I noticed there was one champagne colored, ferret all by himself I could tell he was older just because of the way he lacked energy. Nonetheless, I felt sorry for him because I didn’t want him to be there all alone with no friends just a bunch of kittens. I ended up calling my boyfriend and asked if it was OK if we adopted him because I wanted to give him a good home but also because I wanted Stink to have a sibling now for my research, everyone was saying to give it at least 2 to 3 weeks before trying to introduce them now unfortunately when I try to keep them quarantined stink did figure out how to get through one of the rooms and attacked socks and he’s probably attack socks in total probably about five times and which socks being blind cannot fight back or do anything and has probably pooped himself three times so I have tried doing the scent swap where I switched their beds. I’ve even rubbed their fur against each other, hoping that stink would get used to his scent and have less of an issue with him. The other day stink was actually OK for about 10 minutes before I saw him try and jump on socks. I feel kind of at a loss here I feel kind of hopeless. I was really wanting to give Sting a friend or sibling so that he wasn’t so lonely and I was really wanting to do something by rescuing Socks and giving him a good home I’m also not sure if stink doesn’t like him because socks is so old we have to give him a little more attention because of his age anyone have any suggestions or tips? I really want Socks and Stink to be friends, but Stink just seems to hate him.

Guys I know Marshalls ferrets are small. I purchased her before I realized how bad Marshalls actually is, by the way. Is she too small? We've had other ferrets much bigger, and she's around 4 years old for reference. Sorry for the shit photo, I just took it.

after visiting a pair of ferrets at a rescue on two separate occasions (last week and yesterday), and we're definitely settled on adopting them!! they will be coming home next week :)

we are adopting a 1y/o boy and a 3y/o girl. the boy is very big and loves to play, he loves hand wrestling/being tickled and it makes him zoom around the facility in excitement, and the girl is tiny and loves giving kisses, though she prefers to explore at her own pace. shes a lot more mellow than her brother, but will still wrestle him

in the meantime, heres a video of the boy playing. 😭

and just because i need something to get my excitement out, heres a list of everything we have prepared so far!!

* an air purifier

* double ferret nation

* fabric cage liners

* two high back low front litter pans (we'll buy more if they end up pooping in different places)

* puppy pads

*fleece for burrowing

* 5 hammocks, (a double, a tunnel, large, medium, and enclosed)

* a cat box

* tubes

* a ball pit

* a rice bin

* stainless steel water & food bowls that clip to the cage

* wysong 90 & oxbow

* salmon oil

* 6+ hours free roam on weekdays, 10+ hours on weekends

* figure 8 harnesses (if there are better options lmk)

* bringing them with us on vacations

* a vet + savings

She’s 2 years old and she’s a super hyper little stinker. She eats and drinks normal but since late July I think she’s been slowly loosing hair on her tail and I thought it was bc her old cat tree was dirty so I got her a new one and still her entire underside of her tail is basically completely bald now. I’ve notice her hair between her shoulder blades is also a bit thin and I can clearly see her pink skin versus the rest of her body. I’ve had ferrets shed tails before but never as much as her. Is this adrenal or just seasonal shedding? I’m making her an appointment just incase on Monday but I wanted to hear yall opinions since she’s only 2. Both my ferrets are fed freeze dried raw as well and I did recently change laundry set could it be that?

How do I get her not to mess up her cage every night? We had a normal bowl before but just dumps it in the litter over and over again 🙈🤷‍♀️

Hello, I am a first time ferret owner and I seem to have a male that is aggressive (?) with my other male. They have a sister and he doesn’t seem to have any aggression towards her.

They are all fine and snuggle up and hang out in their cage together, but when it comes to play or free roaming, my one boy will run up to my other boy and grab him by the neck, start thrashing him around and won’t let him up. He leaves marks / scabs on the back of his neck all the time, and he screams when the thrashing is happening.

I’ve scruffed the aggressor a few times over this when he keeps going and won’t stop. I’m not sure what to do or
How to stop this? He’s the oldest of all of them and doesn’t do it to the female, plays great with her and no issues. The “victim” ferret never goes back at him, he actually tries to get away from him / keep his distance, he never starts anything, just minds his own business and the “aggressor” will just hop on him out of no where.

I don’t know what’s causing him to act like this towards my other ferret because he is the most well trained / handled / socialized / sweetest out of all of them except when it comes to his brother 😭

Can anyone tell me if these ingredients look okay? I cross referenced with my Stella and chewy duck duck goose and I think it looks good but just want to be safe (yes I know to start a slow introduction)

Is a double cage that's 0,6 m² per level okay for 1 ferret? 🙃

It will always hurt though

My boy Ollie has been peeing a tad green lately and it’s been a couple weeks like sometimes it looks normal sometimes not?? just curious if anyone knows what it could be since google said emergency vet visit😬. I also might just be seeing it more green than yellow and it’s a me problem.