Hi all, I have heard a lot of talk about bitting lately. I have to be honest I have only run across one bitting ferret of the near one hundred I have run...
Ferrets that are not handled when kits can be ferocious biters when adults, I’m not sure genetics has much to do with biting as I’ve handled half polecats...
From: <ferretunderground@...> ... Out of the hundreds of ferrets that have passed through my hands I only have one really bad biter. I know she bites and...
From: Chris Lloyd ... adults, I'm not sure genetics has much to do with biting as I've handled half polecats that were finger friendly. Some ferrets bite due...
I've run into some fur-fitch lines years ago when pet stock ferret ferrets were in low supply which had biting problems and fit in the category of abused or...
Sukie Crandall
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Jan 3, 2003 6:03 pm
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I have had two ferrets - both extremely dark and extremely smart - that were terrible bitters. Tobie was also extremely territorial and if he had a chance he...
... probably was not an issue. < HI Rena, non handling before you got the kits was cause of the biting, kits should be finger friendly by 3 weeks of age. In my...
One of the famrs (not the largest one) here had a very short faced line and they could not teethe comfortably so that line just plain gnaws anything available...
Sukie Crandall
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Jan 4, 2003 6:10 pm
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Hi Chris: Thanks for the reply. I certainly agree that handling very young is an important issue (I just never knew how young you should start handling...
Hi Rena, the breeder you got the ferrets from may have introduced some new blood into his stock. Some of the darker ferrets may have more polecat than ferret...
... Are they short faced? Do they have small mouths? Was the biting mostly during the time of teething? Did they get regular dental checks during teething?...
Sukie Crandall
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Jan 6, 2003 5:01 pm
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Heisan Håper med dette jeg når de seriøse oppdretterne som finnes i norden. Til sommer/høsten 03 planlegger jeg å parre tispa mi Nemi Willow. Nemi Willow...
Re: [Ferret-Genetics] Re: Ferret TempermentSukie: I do apologize if I do not make a lot of sense, I am trying to ignore a very bad migraine (not too...
I wanted to say that I ran into a few ferrets just like Rena is talking about in the mid eighties down south here. Sukie, Rena has described to a "t" what we...
... We ran into that with some fur fitch many years ago. Otherwise we had one who had very serious and painful medical problems from the get-go (One of the...
Sukie Crandall
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Jan 7, 2003 6:45 pm
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I would like to comment on Path Valley ferrets that I have run across...Leaving out of this opinion, the deformed or genetically 'marred' ferrets.. Almost all...
I had a terrible biter once. It was my second ferret and first hob. In his case I think it was caused by lack of handling or inappropriate handling by his...
... That's them!! On the topic of fitch fur ferrets, I remember that there were many of those in South Jersey where I grew up. My mother was paranoid about...
... Could be the case many times. That is consistent with what I saw and a little bit of what Rockys shelter saw. When a petstore in B'ham Al would get in a...
There used to be a number in Northern NJ, too, and, boy, but some could and would bite a hand to the bone for almost no reason at all. We had one for a while...
Sukie Crandall
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Jan 9, 2003 7:35 pm
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... We went to PV personally twice. The first time was before the Mortons broke up and they used to then show the operation and had a rule that everyone had...
Sukie Crandall
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Jan 9, 2003 7:46 pm
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I got into a discussion recently with a friend who owns a (imo, well-run) private pet store in Florida. She had always ordered their small quantity of ferrets...
... NONE of the farms are superior to each other. ALL have some better points and ALL have problems, ALL send the kits out way too young (in fact, MF was NOT...
Sukie Crandall
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Jan 11, 2003 8:27 pm
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Hello - I read the postings on this group to broaden my knowledge on these wonderful critters - but have yet posted. I thought I could add something here. I...
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Oops! Sorry for sending a junk email before this one. ANYWAY. I ... About 4-5 years ago, I got a biter from PetCo that did the latch on. He was bad. When...
<Is my kid a simple jerk or can I blame his parents? I have come across ferrets that appear to be psychotic biters but normally kits that really bite have...
The early Triple Fs had a LOT of problems, especially health ones but also behavioral ones from what folks posted and also what they wrote privately. There...
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