Cubs of ferrets are called puppies, and these kids need correct education. It is best to buy small ferrets in specialized stores and nurseries, adults and wild ferrets practically do not lend themselves to educational processes. How to bring up a ferret at home is decided only by you, individually, depending on the nature of your puppy. The most effective method is the "carrot and stick", the dosage of both, I repeat, is individual.
Ferrets are freedom-loving animals, so a serious punishment for them will be locked in a cage. Like most animals, ferrets have a sensitive nose, and clicking on the nose, (let's say a newspaper) is also a very severe punishment for them. Just a punishment can serve as a short cold shower in the face. If anything in the behavior of your pet you considered unacceptable, just take it in your hands, and, with a little shake, loudly say "you can not" or, if it's more convenient "fu". Try not to abuse punishments, otherwise it will damage the establishment of warm relations between you.
If the ferret did something right, be sure to praise it, treat it with some vegetable or fruit delicacy. Various sausages, biscuits and sweets to ferrets are contraindicated.
To the toilet, the choir is taught by the same method. The tray for the toilet is perfectly suitable for the cat. If a cat lives in the house, it is better, if each pet has a toilet. Ferrets are clean, and they will not shit in a place to sleep or eat. In order for the animal to quickly recognize the toilet, it is better to stain a brand new tray in its feces. Sometimes an adult raised animal can dirty past the tray, this happens if the animal is frightened or worried, and also if it wants to assert itself in this way.
Chorus is very loyal to children and playful. Toys for him are better to choose latex and avoid rubber and fur, as their pieces can kill the intestines of the animal if swallowed. In the cage to plant it is in rare cases, when traveling, cleaning or punishing.
For a comfortable life ferret needs room. At least a room, ideally, the whole apartment. Only after such a fragile animal do we need constant supervision. Ferrets do not see well and can not correctly estimate distances, which makes falls even from the couch very traumatic. Because of the small size of ferrets are poorlyoperable and as a result of accidents they are not possible to save.
Before you get a ferret, bring the apartment in order, take care that there are no holes and cracks in which the chorus can get stuck, including the heating battery. Ferrets very badly suffer heat and direct sunlight! Remove from the places accessible to the ferret electric wire, flowers, fragile things, household chemicals. Be careful, try not to step on it, and do not press the ferret, which is warmed, under your blanket, turning in the bed.
Ferrets must necessarily be vaccinated against the chum, even if it is only home-based. The causative agents of the disease can be brought home by yourself, for example, on shoes. This disease for the ferret is practically incurable. After vaccination, side effects may occur, therefore, inoculation, it is necessary to spend at least one hour in the veterinary clinic. The vaccine against rabies should be placed only in case of acute necessity, for example, before traveling or staying in dangerous places, such vaccination is very hard for ferrets to be tolerated.
And most importantly, love your pet, and he will answer you the same!