How to Take Care of a Ferret - Grooming and Hygiene

I’m Robin from Ferrets First Rescue. We’re here to teach you how to take care of your ferret, now for ferret hygiene. The things you need to take care of your ferret hygiene are ferret oil, your cleaner, cue tips, a good clipper and then some ferret lax. To distract your ferret while you’re clipping the toenails, you put a little oil on the belly and the ferret will lick the oil while you clip the toenails, and essentially be distracted by that oil. Okay, one thing you need to be careful of when you’re clipping the nails is just to click the tips of them, don’t go down to the quick. It’s very easily seen as a red line. Now we’re gonna clean the ferret’s ears. What we do is we scruff a ferret, and ferrets are used to being scruff, their parents scruff them and when you scruff them, they essentially go to sleep, and they’re very cooperative. So, what we’re gonna do is we’re just gonna wet the tip of the cue tip, that’s done very simply by using a little ear cleaner in a cup and you gently go through all the little nooks and crannies inside the ear, don’t go down into the ear, because the eardrums located very close to the surface. So you’re just gonna clean out all those little nooks and crannies in the ear and that’s one of the way to help keep the odor of ferret down, because if their ears get too dirty they do begin to smell. Okay, and last but not least on your weekly ferret hygiene, you want to give them a little hair ball remedy. It’s the same kind of hairball remedy that you use for your cat, very much like cats, ferrets clean themselves and digest hair, so you give them a little ferret lax at the end, they think they’re getting a treat and actually what you’re doing is preventing hairballs. When they changes their coats, it’s a good idea to give them hairball remedy, maybe 3-4 times a week. That’s ferret hygiene, it’s important that you do it at least once a week, clip those nails so that they don’t form spurs and get caught in bedding and perhaps pull the nail out. Keep the ears clean so they don’t smell and prevent those hairballs. Next, we’ll gonna be talking about ferret training.