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appleorange
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ferret is the only animal besides a cat or dog that will actually run around the house and want your attention.
bunnies, gophers, lizards, and bugs make lame pets.
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Liz
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Re: A pet [Re: azurite]
#7979128 - 02/04/08 06:37 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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Why do you think ferrets are bad news? They're smart, fun, easily trainable, and love attention. They're damn amusing to watch, too!
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notapillow
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appleorange said: ferret is the only animal besides a cat or dog that will actually run around the house and want your attention.
bunnies, gophers, lizards, and bugs make lame pets.
my bunny is hands down the coolest pet i have ever had.
she most certinly run s around the house and loves attention
and foodz
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Liz
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Re: A pet [Re: drSE]
#7979235 - 02/04/08 06:50 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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Ferrets can make a decent amount of noise too, I should note. When they get excited, they squeak, hiss, and make a clucking noise. It's quite funny. Also, they like to dig at stuff. Ours have a little sandbox that we let them burrow in.
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Re: A pet [Re: Liz]
#7979244 - 02/04/08 06:52 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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Buy a midget.
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drSE
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Re: A pet [Re: Crasher]
#7979276 - 02/04/08 06:57 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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Crasher said: Buy a midget.
now you got the right idea
i would say ferret at this point. but they do like to hide your shit, chew on your wires, and poop were you can't find it.
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Re: A pet [Re: drSE]
#7979279 - 02/04/08 06:57 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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plus, you can feel their bones when you pet them. oh, and the smell.
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Re: A pet [Re: drSE]
#7979283 - 02/04/08 06:58 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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drSE said:
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Crasher said: Buy a midget.
now you got the right idea
i would say ferret at this point. but they do like to hide your shit, chew on your wires, and poop were you can't find it.
This is true, but so does my one year old.
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Re: A pet [Re: drSE]
#7979367 - 02/04/08 07:14 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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Our ferrets are all litter box trained - they have the occasional accident, but they don't tend to poop where you can't find it. They just poop in whatever corner is closest. Also, they're not big chewers....and when they do chew, they tend to chew on rubbery things, not stuff like wires. For instance, my ferrets like the Wii remotes because they have the latex covers on them....and they LOVE pacifiers. I brought one home from work one day accidentally and they stole it and ran away with it. ALSO, the word ferret means "little thief" in Latin....so be prepared. They like anything shiny, and will hoarde your things in a corner, in a big pile. When we moved in to our new house, we took the bed out of the room and discovered a huge pile of our stuff in the far corner under the bed....earrings, socks, pens, slippers....you name it. They'll steal shit that is 4 times their size with no hesitation. But, they're really really fun pets Mine even know some hand signals!
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I used to have a bunny and he was the coolest pet. He would use his litter box and spend a lot of time in his cage just hanging out. They drop a lot of pellets but they don't stink. Rabbits are pretty smart pets and they have a lot of personality. I used to put a harness on him and tie him on a leash in the yard, he would just chill and eat grass.
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ferrets are bad news because they don't respect anything and are persistant, especially when it's something you don't want them to do. they love to shit behind the litter box or in front of it where it meets the wall. i even have special ferret litter boxes and they don't give a shit. your whole house will stink like them too and you won't notice. everyone else will though. they also love to burrow through the litter which is fucking gross when you want to pick them up. i have two of them. i also have 96 chinchillas, yes, 96 and they are cheap unless you get them at a pet store. i sell mine for 20-100 bucks depending on the fur color and quality/size. their poop also makes great compost. they also have the softest fur on earth. they are the easiest pet to care for other than a cat and they love hanging out with people. they can also live for 20 years and most ferrets die at 5-7 years. males are the best though for some reason. the females have a different body structure and are more delicate when they are picked up. they will kick the shit out of a cat too. it's hilarious to see a cat pick on one and have the chinchilla fly at it from all angles ripping out chunks of fur. the cat can't even figure out what's going on. they hate loud music though and will let you know that they're unhappy by barking. they also do better in a herd. yes, they are called chinchilla herds. they are born fully fured with eyes open and able to run and jump too. their barking can be loud though.
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drSE
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Re: A pet [Re: azurite]
#7980356 - 02/04/08 09:54 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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maybe i will get a chinchilla then. do they chew on stuff a lot.
and why in the world do you have 96 of them.
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Re: A pet [Re: drSE]
#7980368 - 02/04/08 09:57 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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yes, chinchillas LOVE to chew about as much as rabbits, which is a lot.
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Re: A pet [Re: azurite]
#7980374 - 02/04/08 09:58 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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My ferrets don't burrow in their litter boxes, and don't shit next to them or behind them. If they are able to move their litter boxes they will move them and THEN they will go in the corner, behind the litter box, but we fasten ours so that they can't be moved from their spot. Also, when we take them out of their habitat, we put a litter box down on the floor and they automatically go in it, even though there are 1 million other corners they could shit in. I have 5 ferrets (previously 6...) and I don't think that our house smells like ferrets. My Mom, who's extremely critical of the amount of animals that I have, even comments on how it doesn't smell like we have any Of course, if we didn't change the litter boxes so often, it WOULD stink in here....so you have to keep up with them.
96 chinchillas? Jesus. Are you a registered breeder??
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Re: A pet [Re: drSE]
#7980377 - 02/04/08 09:59 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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Yeah - I think chinchillas actually chew way more than ferrets do. Ferrets aren't big on chewing - but they do like carrying stuff around.
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Re: A pet [Re: azurite]
#7980400 - 02/04/08 10:03 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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my chinchillas actually enjoy loud music, not REALLY loud music, but they don't mind it being loud in general as their hearing is very similar to ours, despite what their large ears may tell you.
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Liz
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Are chinchillas nocturnal??
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Re: A pet [Re: Liz]
#7980519 - 02/04/08 10:19 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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mine sure as fuck seem to be. they talk to each other in the middle of the night and jump around like maniacs. it's cute and annoying at the same time.
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drSE
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would it be best to have 1 or 2?
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Re: A pet [Re: drSE]
#7980552 - 02/04/08 10:24 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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i've always had at least two so that they can talk to and snuggle with each other. they seems to be happier when there is more than one.
but you have to be careful with mixing the males and females because if the male is larger than the female and she gets pregnant it will more than likely cause hemorrhaging when she gives birth and the mother will die.
this happened to my first set of chinchillas. she had 3 babies (not that common, they usually only have one, sometimes two) and they were too big because the male was double her size. two of the babies died, one lived, i still have him and he's one of the biggest chinchillas i've ever seen.
they are great pets though.
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