I have had rescue ferrets for approx 8 years now and I definitely had them come in upset, fearful, and even depressed. Letting them settle and not being in their face was a good place to start - and a good set of old motorcycle gloves. Some people disagree with using gloves - however, I found that if you take your fear of being bitten out of the scenario, you are going to have a calmer ferret. They are not going to get a reaction from you if they do bite the gloves - and they feel your calm. After a few days or few weeks, depending on the ferret, I would then move forward removing the gloves. It was pretty much always successful and some of the most traumatised ferrets ended up being some of my most friendly and loving. Keep up the great work Courtney, heaps of great tips too. Simon is gorgeous. (Nicole).

@TheTrainedFerret

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for sharing your experience!!! I’m sure this will be helpful to others who read it on here 😊

@bizzarebear

2 жыл бұрын

I just adopted a baby ferret about 5 days ago her name is Tulip but she has a severe biting problem and I have tried everything to get her to stop biting. She chases me and my fiancé around and bites super hard and draws blood. She is a very happy and energetic ferret and I never force her to spend time with me I allow her to play as she wishes and never get in her face. I don't know what to do it hurts really bad. She bites my hands and feet and it's gotten so bad that I have to wear shoes in the house and keep my hands away from her. I desperately need help I cannot figure out what to do. She refuses to eat anything other than her regular food. She won't eat treats. I have bought 6 different types of treats now and spent over $100 trying to find ones she will eat...... Which makes training near impossible.....

Thanks for the incredible advice Courtnie for covering such an important topic ♥ I am so happy you like and tagged our bonding video!!!!!!!!!!!!

@TheTrainedFerret

3 жыл бұрын

You’re welcome! 😊

I absolutely love your dedication to this channel and to ferrets. It's super useful because there aren't a lot of good ferret informational videos out there!

@TheTrainedFerret

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you! That means a lot!

I’m so glad you made this video because I get asked this a lot and I have no answer because I guess I got so lucky with mine and how they never bit😂 now I can refer them to this video haha, thank you for making this!!

@TheTrainedFerret

3 жыл бұрын

You’re welcome!! My first ferret never bit either. They are all so different!

Thank you for making this! Its is super helpful!! Love your channel!

@TheTrainedFerret

3 жыл бұрын

Yay I’m so glad!! 😊

You deserve a lot more subscribers! I had a ferret years ago and he would only bite my feet. I have a new ferret now and she is more nippy which is why I tuned in to your video. Thankfully she is easily distracted because she loves toys! TY!

My girl was never fully properly bite trained by her previous owner and has responded well to my attempts with reinforcement with toys over the last year of having her but she still goes hard sometimes on ankles and my inner elbows randomly, I usually make a sound to signal pain and then move her away from me and don’t engage in play for a single minute after then use toys to engage. This was really really helpful though as I really needed more methods! I plan to try and train both my girls with your available content. Thanks so much for providing it

This video is very helpful. Thank you

Thanks for this video. I just got my ferret and I can't even believe I thought my ferret would be even anywhere near the size of your boy!!! He's TINY. Your big boy is the size of a cat! The genetic disparity between Marshall's and a breeder ferret is just crazy

Thank you this was a very helpful video

I’m so glad I found your channel!! My husband came home with 2 ferrets a few days ago. They are only 4-5 months old and both neutered. The one we named Rocky is a biter and he bit me pretty good today. The other one (Leo) is super sweet. I’m really trying to find ways to curb Rockys biting so thank you for doing this video

@cosmyxstain7474

Жыл бұрын

This is so similar with my situation right now. How’s Rocky doing these days? Is he still biting you?

Thanks for all the information it's good information that you gave

@TheTrainedFerret

3 жыл бұрын

You’re welcome and thank you! 😊

That's video it's so helpful! I just have my ferret from yesterday and today I took her (when she was sleeping) to show my friend and after 2 minutes in her hands, she bites her. And I didn't get what's happening, but now I know. Thank you so much!!!

Tysm for making this video it is a life saver!!!! My ferret likes to bite people when he gets really hyped up and that's his way of playing and I do get that but he sometimes goes a little too far and draws blood. He's such an angel but he likes to bite so thank you for thus video! 😅❤

Thank you very much for all this info! So far, my baby has learnt three tricks and I'm proud that it's way more educated than several dogs from friends 🙊

@TheTrainedFerret

3 жыл бұрын

That’s awesome!!!! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 Simon and I are so proud!

@pensarenvozalta

3 жыл бұрын

@@TheTrainedFerret 💕💕💕🥰🥰🥰 thank you, keep up all the hard god work

My brothers ferret is IN LOVE with biting toes. My brother is going on vacation for a very long time so now i have to take care of the ferret. THIS HELPED ALOT@!

This is super duper helpful! Im getting my ferret named milo in a few days or weeks and I definitely know what yo do now 😁

My first two ferrets were fearful biters due to being handled poorly by the kids in their previous home. I focused on just spending in the room they were allowed to play in at the start. I sat in the corner and just read a book and let them come to me and explore me and my hands without picking them up at the start. When I had to handle them at the start I paired every pick up with a piece of chicken which distracted them from biting and over time made them more comfortable. They have both passed on now but they became the sweetest, gentlest little boys ❤

@TheTrainedFerret

3 жыл бұрын

That is a great technique! They were lucky to have their forever home with you! 😊

@jaymelennon

3 жыл бұрын

@@TheTrainedFerret thank you, I was very lucky to have them as well. I have a passion for rehabilitating fearful animals and most of my pets have come to me that way. Although they should never have been in a situation to become that way, helping them find their confidence and learn to trust is one of the best experiences.

Thinking about to get a ferret , this will help a lot! :) 👍

i have a ferret and this really helped me

Our ferret is deaf, and so I think scuffing will work perfectly for us. Thank you!

Courtney you're the best ferret mom I know and the way you train your Ferrets is the best way I found even with this scruffing. scruffing is natural their mom would probably scruff them but yeah thanks to the tips I found from you my two girls were bite trained in almost 3 months

@TheTrainedFerret

3 жыл бұрын

Aww thank you so much!

This is a cool video! I wanted to ask on a scale from 1-10 how hard does your ferret bite or any ferrets you have handled?

@TheTrainedFerret

3 жыл бұрын

My first ferret was 0 because he never bit. Joey was a 4 and Simon at most was a 6 but has come down to a 4. The biting is becoming much less often as well.

@bunnyscott9212

2 жыл бұрын

My ferret mostly does one close to a 3 and sometimes its a 5 h

@madisenwheeler8026

2 жыл бұрын

My ferret has drawn blood

Thank you for saying thanks Simon for making noises haha thought it was my ferret for a second

It is quite interresting to see this topic covered with a traning focus. such as the redirecting trick or the desensitization. With my ferret I was doing something like that without exactly knowing if it was a thing xD. Thank you for the great content!

@TheTrainedFerret

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much!! 😊

Thank you for the video. I have a female ferret I got from a friend who bites, and we have had 2 other, one for 5 years and one for almost 2 years. They are sweet boys and we are not use to having a biting ferret. I'm pretty desperate to do something about it. I will try the techniques in this video. But my biting ferret is an altered female!

I want to add that if those things dont work and you have an adult ferret and they still bite. Please take tona vet to get checked out. I got a ferret labeled "a biter". She had been fixed and didnt respond to normal ferret stimulus and was extreme fear. It took a while but it turned out she had an underlining medical condition, and was deaf/blind. It takes time and patients and get help from shelter or vet.

also! the part where you going “yay!!” i’m sure my ferret is deaf what should i do?

Where did you get that solid gate in the hallway? I’ve tried to find ones like that but haven’t found any. If you could send me a link to it that would be great! I love your videos! :)

@wezul

3 жыл бұрын

That looks home-made. I've purchased baby barriers from Amazon, but they need a lot of modification. The holes in the ones I bought are too small for adult ferrets to crawl through, but just fine for climbing UP, over the barrier. So then I tape clear plastic (wall poster covers) to the front, so the ferrets can't climb. But then they claw at the tape. So I had to make cloth sleeves/covers for the barriers, so they can't get at the tape. It's quite the arts & crafts project, but it pays off! ^_^ Barrier: smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B07JGDGG23/ Clear plastic: smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B086G546X3 I used flat sheets for the covers, stitched them to the correct width to make sleeves that can go over the barriers. For some reason, flat sheets are WAAAAY less expensive than buying fabric by the yard. If you're having a hard time visualizing what I'm talking about, check out my Instagram highlight "Arts & Crafts" (skip the first 3 clips) to see a couple videos of the old and new covers I made. instagram.com/kwsapphire/ Or, here's an example of Jasper climbing over the barrier WITH a cover but WITHOUT the plastic shields. I thought I could get away with just cloth. Nope! twitter.com/kwsapphire/status/1308822198875029504 As far as I can tell, NOBODY sells a ferret-ready barrier. You either have to modify an existing barrier, or build one from scratch. Makes me wanna start my own company, or call all the barrier manufacturers & be like "Yall are missin out on an important market!"

@TheTrainedFerret

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you! They don’t make the gate I have anymore. The only one I know of is this one and in my opinion it’s too pricey. ferretdepot.com/products/better-view-door-gate

I have two babies, Theodore and Eleanor. They’re still small so I’m guessing they’re teething so I think they’re ganna grow out of it but lately the girl has been biting way much more and harder.

@madisenwheeler8026

2 жыл бұрын

Ferrets don’t grow out of biting, they aren’t like cats and dogs

sounds like a university professor🥱😴

What toys are best for redirecting them to?

I know this is a older post but I just purchased two ferrets one is not a year old and the other one is around 4 they said when they had one pass away and got the new one and the 4 year old started biting a little bit but you can’t handle her at all without her biting you and she draws the blood any help or idea why she would just start all of a sudden we are going to continue with the training but she is like a pit bull just running at you ready to draw blood

If your ferret is fully trained, can you cuddle it without having to lead it another direction or having to worry about being bit?

I am so glad u said when you first get a ferret you can use gloves because I had to use gloves for my little princess when I first got her and I always felt like a bad new ferret mommy. I talk to my two little girls all the time I talk to them like they are human my mother in law laugh at me like I said my one little princess was a really bad biter and what I also did and it seem to really help I would wait till she would fall asleep and I would gently pet her for just a few minutes and it really seemed to help she was definitely a fear biter and she was a very big ankle biter and although she still a ankle biter now lol all I have to do is tell her no and most of the time she stops

@TheTrainedFerret

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for sharing! Thank you for being a patient ferret mom 😊

@madisenwheeler8026

2 жыл бұрын

Same!

I scruff also when he climbs on my end tables. It instantly calms him down and I can handle him for a couple minutes before he wants down again

mines is very energetic and rough when playing i’ll update in a week!

I love my ferret, she's just under 4 months and I've had her since she was around 10 weeks. But her bitting keeps getting worse not better, she constantly draws blood, i have several wounds that look like they could have been made with a knife and she has bit through my fingernails and I don't know what else to do. If i try to scruff her she bites down harder

My ferret Louise is also obsessed with biting ankles

I have two ferrets my girl called Casper she’s a gem she was so bad but recently she’s calmed down but my boy bandit was so good but has recently turned aggressive just biting everytime I’m near him or trying to bite me even when I’m not near him I’m trying to train them but it’s difficult when he’s always trying to bite us there anything I could do or if you maybe know why he’s like this

Hello Courtney hope your having a good day so far I have a question I have a ferret and sometimes when we let our ferret out she’ll start breathing weirdly and sneezing a lot we always watch her and she never goes near any dust or powered etc. I was wondering if you know if there any reason she is thank you.

@madisenwheeler8026

2 жыл бұрын

My ferret does this too

My problem is biting to get what they want whether its to climb in my shirt when i dont want her or her digging at the door to her room.

I have a question. What about a previously abused ferret? I refuse to give up on them. They’ve been given up by previous owners and they were going to put them down. I refuse to put them down because they were abused. What training might be good for previously abused ferrets

I have two ferrets that are 8 months that bite and latch and draw blood and they don't bite the glove and if I put oil on my hand they still latch on please help

Is there a way I can private message you? I have some questions id like to ask you

I am a first time ferret owner . She is 10 months old. She was re-homed to me. Will I still be able to stop her from biting being 10 months old?

I have 4 female ferrets. All I can say were spayed very young. I have one 3 year old, two year and half olds, and one who’s coming to be a year old. Would you recommend getting the adrenaline implant at a young age, or just when they start having problems?

@TheTrainedFerret

3 жыл бұрын

Good question. My last 2 ferrets I chemically castrated when they were older so I’m not sure. I’d ask your vet to see. I’m not sure what age is common to start implanting deslorelin. Or if they wait until symptoms show. Sorry 😕

I have six ferrets from all different litters because they are rescues. I just introduced a two year old male. He is very docile and loving, but is getting attacked by one of my female ferrets. What can I do? Please help.

i have a qustion..my boy would play with my husband and never hurt him.but now for some reason he will bite my husbad out of no where.i can play with him and he has never hurt me.am i doing something wrong

My onyx does the "lick lick lick lick CHOMP shakeshakeshake!!" thing on my wrist. Hard enough that she leaves impressions that later turn into little scabs. She's approaching four years old, so I don't think she'll grow out of it. It's okay though, when I've had enough, I put her down, and she runs off and does other things. Problem solved. ^_^ The problem WE have is with our other older girl, Opal. We rescued two young ferrets back in October, and Opal still hasn't accepted them. Every time she smells them, she starts stress-dooking (not play-dooking), and if she can get her teeth on them, she will try to tear them to shreds. It's very obviously NOT playing. Poor Amber pooped in fear when Opal got ahold of her. Opal also got her teeth on Rusty's scruff through the bars of the cage, and tried to pull him forcibly through the bars. We had this same problem when we got our 3rd ferret, Jasper. Opal took ages to warm up to him. I think we finally coated him in Ferretone to get Opal to accept him. We did a bit of that with Amber, but only put the ferretone on Amber's scruff, so Opal licked Amber's scruff, but then bit her further down. So we may need to coat Amber and Rusty in ferretone from nose to tail-tip, and then just give them a bath after Opal is done licking them. I'm just worried that she'll attack them again. It's so terrible. We have 2 cages, and I have been swapping Opal and the newbies between cages, so Opal keeps getting surrounded by their scent. I also let the babies play in the room, and then put them back in their cage, and let Opal out in the room, so she can smell where they've been. She can also walk up the ramp to their cage and smell them. And try to attack them through the bars, unfortunately. She's such a mean wezul.

@TheTrainedFerret

3 жыл бұрын

That is a tough situation 😕 I hope she improves with time 🤞🏼

Hey is there anyway we can talk about one of my ferrets privately ?? There is something odd about the way she bites, I have had ferrets. This is not a playful bite , this is not a fear bite, I Don’t want a million comments I just want a 1 on 1 convo on how to fix this issue once I explain whats going on…. And she does not seem to bite my girl friend at all just me and my dog honestly but i’ll get more into detail later

Does a surprise ferret in your lap from a sibling does that change a ferret's likeness toward you?

@madisenwheeler8026

2 жыл бұрын

What

My ferrets are 1 year and 10 month Old but they bite. They are super tiny I don't know why.

Mine do well with your training techniques. But it’s a little harder for my one who is deaf. But she’s learning

@TheTrainedFerret

3 жыл бұрын

I’m sure she will get there ❤️ My first ferret, Eddie, was deaf. He was such a sweet boy.

Só queria que fosse tradosido para português para eu poder entender o que está sendo falado

I love them but I am now to then I want to get one

The skin around my ferrets neck isn’t loose enough or something because she doesn’t calm down

I do the scruff because mine loves to bite my ankles

every time mine bit i sprayed her with a water bottle she stoped but it did take a good 2 months so if your deciding to get a baby farret plz take in to consideration that you will be bit A LOT!!! iv had 3 the first one there was no youtube to help so that one took me for ever to train but the next ones were alot better not saying it was easy it doesn't happen over night and their sharp milk teeth don't help but if you are willing to put the time in they are amazing cuddly animals that are lots of fun and by no means hit them you may get the farret scared of you and then the bites become harder and the animal will not trust you to handle them..

Im suffering a lot with my 3 months one he bites a lot an in the store they said they where having a lot of trouble to potty train him an im having trouble too... I use pellets, dog pads an nothing im running out of options 😂😂

ferret

@riuhlee

2 жыл бұрын

ferret

While watching this video my farrot was biting me

I have ferrets they never bite me but they did once and oh my god it hurt

mine loved to go outside under my coat any time i would talk to someone he would poke his head out to see who i was talking to i would take him to wall-mart he was well behaved never tried to escape i would pick the pretty cashiers line to check out oooh he's so cute what's his name can i pet him

What kind of ferret is he that he is so big?

Awwwwww his little girlfriend!!

@TheTrainedFerret

3 жыл бұрын

Haha I know!!! “She” really helps him when he gets bitey. 😊

He's huuuuge lol

Simon is big and beautiful!

Hey I was wondering what you payed for Simon since he is from a breeder

I hit the "dislike" icon by mistake. This is a GREAT video.

@TheTrainedFerret

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you 😊

...but can you train a Ferret to attack?