Why did I find this sooner? I would LOVE to talk about my beloved ferrets! I have had quite the number of ferrets in my time. I currently have 3 female ferrets. Sif is a Chocolate Sable color(Age 4). Frejya is a Silver/Panda color(Age 5). Lastly I have Trico a Black Sable color(Age 2).
My story goes as is... I adopted a white ferret (black eyes, not albino), from a bad situation. Her owner was a teenager and his father was giving her away for free since he didn't take care of her anymore. She was quite sick and skinny and I nursed her back to health. She was just so cute... so I named her Soqut(So cute!). I would say she was 3 or 4 in age. So then wanted to get her a friend, thus Freyja came along! Freyja came from a hoarding situation with a bunch of other animals. Nothing was really wrong with her, maybe just a tad underweight. They both got along great, but sadly Soqut, because of her horrible health before me, had developed Insulinoma. I treated her Inulinoma for as long as I could before the seizures eventually took her life from me. Freyja was suddenly alone and I felt bad for her. So what did I do? .... Ferret Math xD
I adopted another female, my Sif. Also! A male named Odin; he was about 4 or 5 when I adopted him. (Also, can you tell I'm into Norse Mythology?) For about 4 months things went great! Until Odin took a leap of faith from the top of his cage, as I apparently wasnt fast enough to get him out, and took a hard fall. I took him to the vet for x-rays and found out he had slipped two disks in his spine. It pretty much paralyzed him from the hips down. He also began to wither away. One night I went to check on him, and was able to be with him as he took his last breath.
Then I was down to two again. Sif, and Freyja. It took me about a month to finally decide to go to my shelter and adopted another ferret haha. Trico my newest member and thankfully gets along with my other females!
And so I now have three girls. Small list of my ferrets below. I will add pictures when I can!
White, black eyed female; Soqut (So-cute). RIP: 4
Silver Male; Odin. RIP 5
*Current*
Silver/Panda female; Freyja; 5
Chocolate Sable female; Sif. 4
Black Sable female; Trico. 2