Living with a ferret means occasionally discovering a problem you never imagined needing to solve. They climb, dig, steal, stash, squeeze, investigate and occasionally appear to regard your carefully ferret-proofed home as a puzzle you’ve built specifically for them.
What Has Your Ferret Done Now?
Not every ferret problem fits neatly into food, litter, cages or ferret-proofing.
This is where we’ll collect practical fixes for the assorted acts of ferret mischief that come with sharing your home with an animal that’s curious, determined and surprisingly good at getting into places it shouldn’t.
Getting Into Places They Shouldn’t
If there’s a gap, opening, cabinet, piece of furniture or suspiciously interesting corner of the house, there’s a reasonable chance your ferret will investigate it.
Start with our guide to stopping a ferret from getting under the couch, and we’ll be adding more fixes for cabinets, furniture, doors and other tempting destinations.
Digging, Rearranging and General Renovations
Ferrets don’t always share our opinions about interior design.
If yours has started remodeling the floor, see how to protect your carpet from a determined ferret.
We’ll also be covering digging, climbing, stealing, stashing and other behaviors that are perfectly logical if you happen to be a ferret.
Sometimes the Ferret Isn’t the Problem
A lot of ferret mischief is normal behavior meeting a home that wasn’t designed with ferrets in mind.
That’s the approach we take at Ferret Fix: figure out what your ferret is trying to do, make anything dangerous or destructive inaccessible, and give them a better way to satisfy the same curiosity.
Because convincing a ferret that something simply isn’t allowed is rarely the most promising engineering solution.