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Hi,

I’m not aware of ever seeing Black Foot Ferrets whilst in America but Lee and I have ferrets nowadays! At the moment we have 9, though at one time we had 18!

Ferrets unfortunately have very bad PR Agents! If kept clean and relatively settled they do have an odour but not a particularly strong smell, though if scared or if you mix the genders the smell can be very noticeable. As for biting, yes in play their mouth is very active, but it is rare they actually bite and in the years we have had them I’ve only been bitten seriously a couple of times – and that has been my own fault.

We handle our ferrets quite a lot and they are used to playing with us, where they depend on speed and agility, not biting.

Remembering that they are VERY agile and excellent escapologists, do be absolutely certain you have a ferret proof cage and run, before getting ferrets. They can burrow at speed, fit into VERY small holes and tunnels they find and astonishingly turn around in the tunnel, forcing material out of their way with their wedge shaped head and doubling back on themselves.

They are great fun and very lively and you will find many You Tube videos of their ‘war dance’ play and display games.

One thing they are really good at is sleeping! with a normal pattern of activity diurnally being at their most active at dawn or dusk but able to sleep the rest of the time, being around 18 to 20 hours a day.

As long as they have constant access to water they are easy to feed with either ferret biscuits and or tinned cat food.

SCIENTIFIC NAME: Mustela nigripes

TYPE: Mammals

DIET: Carnivore

GROUP NAME: Business

AVERAGE LIFE SPAN IN CAPTIVITY: 12 years

SIZE: Head and body: 15 to 20 inches; tail: 4.25 to 5 inches

SIZE RELATIVE TO A 6-FT MAN:

CURRENT POPULATION TREND: 

Decreasing

The black-footed ferret could also be called the black-eyed ferret because of the distinctive “stick-em up” mask that adorns its face. The tan ferrets also have black markings on their feet, legs, and tail tip.

Population Decline

This animal’s long slender body, like that of a weasel, enables it to crawl in and out of the holes and dwellings of its primary prey—the prairie dog.

Though black-footed ferrets sometimes eat squirrels, mice, and other rodents, prairie dogs are essential to their survival, making up the majority of the ferret diet. These voracious predators hunt them in their own burrows, and take shelter in abandoned prairie dog dwellings.

Many prairie dog towns became ghost towns as populations underwent a 20th century decline. Farmers and ranchers (with government assistance) eliminated many prairie dogs because their underground complexes are destructive to fields. In the process, the black-footed ferret was nearly wiped out. In 1987, 18 animals were captured in the wild to begin a captive breeding program, which has since reintroduced ferrets into promising western habitats.

Reintroduction to the Wild

Ferret reintroduction efforts have been mixed. Populations need viable prairie dog towns to survive, but they also face threats from predators such as golden eagles, owls, and coyotes. Reintroduced animals lack some survival skills so their mortality rate is high. Diseases are another major threat to prairie dog towns and to the black-footed ferrets that depend upon them.

These solitary animals live alone, and in May and June females give birth to litters of one to six kits that they raise alone. The young are able to survive on their own by fall.

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