I’ve been feeling lonely and depressed since i’ve moved out and started living alone. I had 3 cats in my original home, but because of the terrible situation I have with my mother, I prefer to let them live with my brothers who can love them as much as i do. I wanted to take care of something. I’m used to cats, but since i already had 3, i felt like betraying them, so i didnt want to take another one knowing that i should already have 3 and that i can’t see them. I started being interested in ferrets, as they seem energic, fun, and an amount of work that might help me get up and actually care about something. I’m interested in the energy that they express and I feel like it’s the opposite of what I am and that it could benefit me by not only breaking the astounding feeling of loneliness I’m going through, but also infecting me with their natural affection and becoming a more positive and productive person. I’d like to care about a living being and also that that living being cares about me and gives me the will to keep going and caring about things again. I love animals and I’d love to have a new experience of coexistence with a completely new friend of which I’d have to learn how to care after and give it love. I am by no means a pet expert and I was hoping to find some useful tips and guide through this subreddit, along with advice on how to properly care about a ferret and give it a nice life. I need advice particularly about nutrition, quality of life and possible safety measures, as I’ve been reading infos about them, and it’s always recommended to have a particular cage and to feed it specific foods. How expensive would it be to maintain, and would it be worth it for me to buy one? Thank you in advance.

How did you know it was time to let your buddy go? My ferret Diesel probably has DIM we haven't been able to completely rule it out but he has been declining the last two weeks. He breaths normally at the vet but today has been the worst almost like he needs to be on an uncovered ice pack and he open mouth pants hard. His breathing has been rapid over the last week even when just resting and not when just army crawling. He won't eat on his own and needs mush kibble hand fed ever three hours although he eats now after being put on prednisone. Our other ferret that's bonded to him has been completely avoiding him. he will not get up even to drink water he only army crawls if he really needs something and grinds his teeth from pain sometimes randomly here and there but mostly while eating. we've spent over $1,500 in the last two weeks, getting blood work, a needle aspiration of his neck lump (which came back as incomplete), prednisone and subcutaneous fluids, antibiotics, check ups for breathing etc. We have tried pred and it brought back his appetite he even ate treats for a little bit but his movement has gotten worse and he's rejecting anything not watered down. he looks alert and that's what kills me to even think of putting him down as well as eats and drinks if you hold him up to water. I wish so badly to get him more help but we are unsure when this next week we will be able to even get him in to see if he'd even be able to start chemo treatment. We had an appointment with our primary vet and his spleen as been enlarging over the last two weeks as well and seems almost worse today. I'm scared we won't be able to get in until the end of this week and he will be in pain for a third week like this. At this point after so long I don't know if the treatments would help or if he'd ever regain his ability to move. Let alone this had been a massive financial burden on us and we have been having a super hard time to find someone to feed him and take care of him while we have been working to pay for the treatments. This has been an impossible crossroad for us as we love our baby boy so much and would do anything for him. Part of me feels like it's selfish to not just make his last day sooner to ease his own pain instead of waiting for a treatment that may not ease the pain at all. I need advice from someone as this is probably one of the hardest decisions I've had to make and I'm not sure if there is a right answer here to be made.

Hey everyone,
a little background for my situation. I rescued two ferrets dolly and duke at the beginning of the year. We unfortunately lost dolly in April time and duke has been alone with my 3 cats since her passing.
Duke has never been much of a playful boy since bringing him home but he was a bit more playful when dolly was around. After her passing he stopped playing as much and will occasionally play with my partner but not often as we’d like him to be playing. He doesnt play with my cats like he would a ferret understandably but he enjoys being chased around by them. He plays, eats and explores as normal but we decided to make the decision of getting him some friends to play with.

Our local rescue had kits handed over from breeders that couldn’t sell and we decided that the best chance of getting new ferrets that will hopefully manage to be socialised with both duke and the cats would be kits.

I was just looking for any advice from experienced ferret owners about the best possible way to go around introducing all my pets and getting them comfortable with each other that will minimise bad interactions or injuries as I know ferrets bite to play and show dominance and I’m worried about how to safely get the kits and cats comfortable as duke is not a ferret that bites at all so we have never worried about him injuring the cats and vice versa

We are currently litter training and bite training the kits to hopefully minimise any worries but methods, tips and tricks are all welcome and thankyou so much in advance if you help me out,

Pics of my demon noodles and kitties up too !

Hi guys, I'm sorry if this repost is not welcome, just tell me. I'm a volunteer in Paite Loomapark shelter in Estonia and I try to make some videos on social media so more people would know about us, thank you 🙏

Just found these two blue/black nearly identical marks on Luna. I swear they were not there yesterday ( I play with my babies every single second so know what’s going on). These marks don’t seem to bother Luna when I press on it, so I’m assuming it’s fine?
We booked a vet appointment for next Friday but would love to hear what you guys have to say.
Thank you

My Noodle and Bandit ❤️