Ferret - care and maintenance

The ferret (fretka) is still quite exotic, but already many familiar pet. These lovely creatures are perfect for even a small apartment, they get along well with children and other animals. However, when you establish a ferret, you need to study some rules of care and maintenance.

The contents of the ferret in the apartment

First of all, wanting to get a ferret , you need to consider that this is a social animal. It can live in a cage and sleeps most of the day (up to 14 hours a day), but when a ferret is active it is necessary to pay attention to it, play with it, let it run about the apartment. If you do not do this, you can later come across traces of "independent entertainment": dug pits in flower pots, gnawed and hidden things, inverted and razvoroshennoe bucket with garbage.

Care of the domestic ferret and its content also requires a specially equipped place for the ferret to stay at night or when you are not at home. Usually, this is a cell, the size of which should be sufficient for free movement of the animal inside. In the cage you can put a special house where the frette will sleep, but also these animals very much like a variety of hammocks that are easy to make by yourself. Fresh water and food should be in the cage, because this animal needs to eat very often because of the high metabolic rate. Ferrets are well accustomed to the tray. It can also be placed in a cage. However, it is necessary to change the filler in it no less than once every three days. And even if your animal usually goes to the tray, at times, carried away by the game, the ferret may not want to run up to it and settle down in the nearest corner. For this the animal must be punished. The punishment must follow and when he bites hard.

Ferrets usually like to swim and are happy to play in the water, but do not leave the animal unattended, as the fret can choke or slip and hit when trying to jump out of the bathroom. Particular attention should be paid to the care of the ferrets, as they can deteriorate from an unbalanced diet. To clean them, you need to use one of three methods: the use of a special paste and an animal brush (the brush can be replaced with a wrapped clean bandage finger), the use of cleaning bones or the use of special dental instruments and chopsticks from orange trees. However, for animals with sensitive intestines, the latter method is not recommended.

Ferrets love to play. Variants of entertainment with this animal can be "catch-up," tug-toot, search for an abandoned thing. They are very active around the point from the pocket laser. If you have several ferrets, they usually play with each other, imitating a fight or a hunt. It is necessary to show special attention if, together with the ferret, another animal lives in the apartment. Ferret games with a variety of bouncing and sneaking gait can cause aggression from the dog or cat.

Feeding the cleats

Care of ferrets includes proper nutrition. It must be balanced and regular. First of all, it is worthwhile to understand that ferrets are carnivorous animals, so a vegetable diet is not suitable for them. These animals have a very high metabolism, because of this the fret should have constant access to fresh food. A variant of natural food can be fresh meat, only it is necessary to avoid too fatty varieties, since they are split for a long time. You can also feed the ferret with fresh and boiled eggs and a variety of fermented milk products. But you can not give milk - the digestive tract ferret reacts poorly to lactose. When applying a natural diet in the diet of the animal should include vitamin and mineral supplements. You can also use a variety of ready-made ferret food: dry and in the form of cereals.