ferrets

When you’re looking for pairs of ferret, it doesn’t always have to be a male/female pairing, either. Sometimes two males will be best friends. Sometimes you’ll find a older ferret paired up with a younger ferret. I’ve seen cases where a younger ferret acted like a seeing eye ferret for the older one. We would see them run across the room (at full speed, too) with the older one just touching the younger one’s side.

Without the younger ferret, the older, blind ferret, would bump into things. We didn’t even realize the older one was blind until I put the older one down by itself while I was fetching the others. The poor thing stood there, looking confused, and walked right into the leg of a chair! When I put the younger one down, she immediately hunted until she found her elderly friend, and they kissed each other’s faces and trotted off together!

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