Your ferrets love to sleep, so need plenty of place to rest, such as a hammock or nesting box filled with dust free bedding. Provide fleecy blankets so your ferrets can snuggle up and if you keep them outside, make sure they’ve got plenty of bedding in cold weather. Ferrets don’t have great eyesight, so make sure they have safe platforms, not too high off the ground so they can’t fall far! They’re also great diggers so make sure you have a solid floor, to protect their feet and stop them escaping.
Ferrets can be housed indoors in a similar housing to chinchillas. The bigger, the better, so make sure they have lots of space to play, sleep and toilet. Include platforms that aren’t too high, and plenty of ferret-safe toys. Don’t use rubber toys as these can be a choking hazard. Use good quality hay, shredded paper or fleece blankets for their bedding, and line the floor with newspaper and wood shavings. They also like to sleep in hammocks, so hang some inside their enclosure!
Ferrets, in particular, don’t cope well in extreme heat so if they are kept indoors it’s important to regulate the temperature of the room. Anything over 26 degrees is too hot, and over 30 degrees can be fatal. When kept indoors, keep them out of direct sunlight and be careful on hot days.
The essentials you will need to make the perfect set up for you ferrets:
Wire cage for indoors Hutch and run for outdoors Food bowl Sipping bottle with water Fleece bedding Platforms Hammocks Pipes and tubes Clean wood shavings or sawdust Shredded paper Excel Nuggets Ferret-safe cleaning products
